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The term "parents and children" has been searched for 52 times on the American Poems site since November 20th, 2004.
Search Results: 15 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. The Parent - written by Ogden Nash
Read 6862 times on American Poems.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.(Read full poem)
2. The Fall - written by Russell Edson
Read 2467 times on American Poems.
There was a man who found two leaves and came
indoors holding them out saying to his parents
that he was a tree.
To which they said then go into the yard and do
not grow in the living room as your roots may
ruin the carpet.
He said I was... (Read full poem)
3. Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) - written by William Matthews
Read 610 times on American Poems.
The lump of coal my parents teased
I'd find in my Christmas stocking
turned out each year to be an orange,
for I was their sunshine.
Now I have one C. gave me,
a dense node of sleeping fire.
I keep it where I read and write.
"You're on chummy terms... (Read full poem)
4. Soliloquy In Circles - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3984 times on American Poems.
Being a father
Is quite a bother.
You are free as air
With time to spare,
You're a fiscal rocket
With change in your pocket,
And then one morn
A child is born.
Your life has been runcible,
Irresponsible.
Like an arrow or a javelin
You've been... (Read full poem)
5. Children Selecting Books In A Library - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 1272 times on American Poems.
With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright.
The child's head, bent to the book-colored shelves,
Is slow and sidelong and food-gathering,
Moving in blind grace ... yet from the mural, Care
The grey-eyed one, fishing the morning mist,
Seizes the... (Read full poem)
6. At The Smithville Methodist Church - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1349 times on American Poems.
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week,
but when she came home
with the "Jesus Saves" button, we knew what art
was up, what ancient craft.
She liked her little friends. She liked the songs
they sang when they weren't
twisting and... (Read full poem)
7. As Children bid the Guest "Good Night" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4065 times on American Poems.
As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"
And then reluctant turn --
My flowers raise their pretty lips --
Then put their nightgowns on.
As children caper when they wake
Merry that it is Morn --
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance... (Read full poem)
8. Against Writing about Children - written by Erin Belieu
Read 851 times on American Poems.
When I think of the many people
who privately despise children,
I can't say I'm completely shocked,
having been one. I was not
exceptional, uncomfortable as that is
to admit, and most children are not
exceptional. The particulars... (Read full poem)
9. Children - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Birds Of Passage.
Read 3384 times on American Poems.
Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me
Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows
And the brooks of morning... (Read full poem)
10. 1954 - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1926 times on American Poems.
Then dirt scared me, because of the dirt
he had put on her face. And her training bra
scared me—the newspapers, morning and evening,
kept saying it, training bra,
as if the cups of it had been calling
the breasts up—he buried her in... (Read full poem)
11. Before Sleep - written by Catherine Anderson
Read 2866 times on American Poems.
I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.
I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these... (Read full poem)
12. Base of all Metaphysics, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1999 times on American Poems.
AND now, gentlemen,
A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,
As base, and finale too, for all metaphysics.
(So, to the students, the old professor,
At the close of his crowded course.)
Having studied the new and antique, the... (Read full poem)
13. Listen Children - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1770 times on American Poems.
listen children
keep this in the place
you have for keeping
always
keep it all ways
we have never hated black
listen
we have been ashamed
hopeless tired mad
but always
all ways
we loved us
we have always loved each other
children... (Read full poem)
14. Home Fires - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2444 times on American Poems.
IN a Yiddish eating place on Rivington Street … faces … coffee spots … children kicking at the night stars with bare toes from bare buttocks.
They know it is September on Rivington when the red tomaytoes cram the pushcarts,
Here the... (Read full poem)
15. April 26 - written by David Lehman
Read 675 times on American Poems.
When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what my parents
spoke at home(Read full poem)
16. Unfinished Landscape With A Dog - written by Kate Northrop
From Back Through Interruption.
Published in 2002.
Read 239 times on American Poems.
Not much of a dog yet,
that smudge in the distance, beyond the reach
of focus. It's just an impressionist
gesture, a guess. From the edge of the clearing, the farmhouse
materializes, settles
into wall & stone. The water,
making the... (Read full poem)
17. Sadness - written by Donald Justice
Read 8777 times on American Poems.
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Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,
Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?
What great melancholies were loosed among our swings!
As before a storm one hears the leaves whispering
And marks each small change in the atmosphere,
So... (Read full poem)
18. Albert Schirding - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 537 times on American Poems.
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one
Because his children were all failures.
But I know of a fate more trying than that:
It is to be a failure while your children are successes.
For I raised a brood of eagles
Who flew away at last, leaving... (Read full poem)
20. A Peck of Gold - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 8535 times on American Poems.
Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.
All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some... (Read full poem)
21. Jack - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3169 times on American Poems.
JACK was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun.
He worked thirty years on the railroad, ten hours a day,
and his hands were tougher than sole leather.
He married a tough woman and they had eight children
and the woman died and the children grew up... (Read full poem)
22. So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2012 times on American Poems.
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,
For I wish to be purged of an urge.
It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,
And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my... (Read full poem)
23. The Child Bearers - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2729 times on American Poems.
Jean, death comes close to us all,
flapping its awful wings at us
and the gluey wings crawl up our nose.
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle,
mine pushed into gnawing a stilbestrol cancer
I passed on... (Read full poem)
24. Mrs. Charles Bliss - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 683 times on American Poems.
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him
For the sake of the children,
And Judge Somers advised him the same.
So we stuck to the end of the path.
But two of the children thought he was right,
And two of the children thought I was... (Read full poem)
25. Willie Pennington - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 469 times on American Poems.
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,
For my brothers were strong and beautiful,
While I, the last child of parents who had aged,
Inherited only their residue of power.
But they, my brothers, were eaten up
In the fury of the flesh, which... (Read full poem)
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