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The term "w b yates the stollen child" has been searched for 156 times on the American Poems site since September 30th, 2005.
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1. Tableau At Twilight - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3600 times on American Poems.
I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.
A parent is easily beguiled
By sight of this coniferous child.
The friendly embers warmer gleam,
The cone begins to drip ice cream.
Cones are composed of many a vitamin.
My lap... (Read full poem)
2. Child Margaret - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1777 times on American Poems.
THE CHILD Margaret begins to write numbers on a Saturday morning, the first numbers formed under her wishing child fingers.
All the numbers come well-born, shaped in figures assertive for a frieze in a child’s room.
Both 1 and 7 are... (Read full poem)
3. Child - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 4021 times on American Poems.
The young child, Christ, is straight and wise
And asks questions of the old men, questions
Found under running water for all children
And found under shadows thrown on still waters
By tall trees looking downward, old and gnarled.
Found to the... (Read full poem)
4. the times - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 868 times on American Poems.
it is hard to remain human on a day
when birds perch weeping
in the trees and the squirrel eyes
do not look away but the dog ones do
in pity.
another child has killed a child
and i catch myself relieved that they are
white and i might... (Read full poem)
5. When We Were Here Together - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 1156 times on American Poems.
when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one
another.
A bit of grass held between the teeth for a moment, bright hair on the
wind.
What we were we did not know, nor even the grass or the flame of
hair turning to ash on the... (Read full poem)
6. First Child ... Second Child - written by Ogden Nash
Read 5641 times on American Poems.
FIRST
Be it a girl, or one of the boys,
It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois,
It is red, it is boiled; could the obstetrician
Have possibly been a lobstertrician?
His degrees and credentials were hunky-dory,
But how's for an infantile... (Read full poem)
7. Slippery - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1779 times on American Poems.
THE SIX month child
Fresh from the tub
Wriggles in our hands.
This is our fish child.
Give her a nickname: Slippery. 5(Read full poem)
8. Child of Jesus - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From There is a Dead Man Living in my Kitchen.
Published in 2004.
Read 1800 times on American Poems.
Sara
allow me to believe in your love
Saint of Awareness
tear of blood dripping
down your Father’s cheek
inside a French Church.
Outside the graveyard i
stood waiting touched
by the truth of your gift
Child of Forgiveness
your... (Read full poem)
9. Portrait - written by Louise Gluck
From Descending Figure.
Published in 1980.
Read 1876 times on American Poems.
A child draws the outline of a body.
She draws what she can, but it is white all through,
she cannot fill in what she knows is there.
Within the unsupported line, she knows
that life is missing; she has cut
one background from another. Like a... (Read full poem)
11. Come On In, The Senility Is Fine - written by Ogden Nash
Read 4489 times on American Poems.
People live forever in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Tampa,
But you don't have to live forever to become a grampa.
The entrance requirements for grampahood are comparatively mild,
You only have to live until your child has a child.
From that... (Read full poem)
12. Child Moon - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 3498 times on American Poems.
The child's wonder
At the old moon
Comes back nightly.
She points her finger
To the far silent yellow thing
Shining through the branches
Filtering on the leaves a golden sand,
Crying with her little tongue, "See the moon!"
And in her bed... (Read full poem)
13. Elizabeth Childers - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 625 times on American Poems.
Dust of my dust,
And dust with my dust,
O, child who died as you entered the world,
Dead with my death!
Not knowing breath, though you tried so hard,
With a heart that beat when you lived with me,
And stopped when you left me for Life.... (Read full poem)
14. I noticed People disappeared - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2584 times on American Poems.
I noticed People disappeared
When but a little child --
Supposed they visited remote
Or settled Regions wild --
But did because they died
A Fact withheld the little child --(Read full poem)
15. I met a seer - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 5064 times on American Poems.
I met a seer.
He held in his hands
The book of wisdom.
"Sir," I addressed him,
"Let me read."
"Child -- " he began.
"Sir," I said,
"Think not that I am a child,
For already I know much
Of that which you hold.
Aye, much."
He smiled.
Then he opened... (Read full poem)
16. Never Born - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2069 times on American Poems.
THE TIME has gone by.
The child is dead.
The child was never even born.
Why go on? Why so much as begin?
How can we turn the clock back now
And not laugh at each other
As ashes laugh at ashes?(Read full poem)
17. The Firebombers - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2032 times on American Poems.
We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.
The bomb opens like a shoebox.
And the child?
The child is certainly not yawning.
And the woman?
The woman is bathing her... (Read full poem)
18. Momus - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 517 times on American Poems.
"Where's the need of singing now?"--
Smooth your brow,
Momus, and be reconciled.
For king Kronos is a child--
Child and father,
Or god rather,
And all gods are wild.
"Who reads Byron any more?"--
Shut the door
Momus, for I... (Read full poem)
19. Prayers After World War - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3063 times on American Poems.
WANDERING oversea dreamer,
Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother,
Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood,
Child of the hair let down, and tears,
Child of the cross in the south
And the star in the north,
Keeper of Egypt and Russia and... (Read full poem)
20. Sixteen Months - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1864 times on American Poems.
ON the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams.
It is a thin spiral of blue smoke,
A morning campfire at a mountain lake.
On the lips of the child Janet,
Wisps of haze on ten miles of corn,
Young light blue calls to young light gold of... (Read full poem)
21. The Refugees - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2340 times on American Poems.
In the shabby train no seat is vacant.
The child in the ripped mask
Sprawls undisturbed in the waste
Of the smashed compartment. Is their calm extravagant?
They had faces and lives like you. What was it they possessed
That they were willing to trade... (Read full poem)
22. Long Guns - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3024 times on American Poems.
THEN came, Oscar, the time of the guns.
And there was no land for a man, no land for a country,
Unless guns sprang up
And spoke their language.
The how of running the world was all in guns.
The law of a God keeping sea and land apart,
The law... (Read full poem)
23. Song Beside A Sippy Cup - written by Jenny Factor
Published in 2001.
Read 406 times on American Poems.
In the never truly ever
truly dark dark night, ever
blinds-zipped, slat-cut,
dark-parked light,
you (late) touch my toes
with your broad flat own
horny-nailed cold toes.
Clock-tock, wake-shock.
In the ever truly never
truly long long night,... (Read full poem)
24. Low-Tide - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2321 times on American Poems.
These wet rocks where the tide has been,
Barnacled white and weeded brown
And slimed beneath to a beautiful green,
These wet rocks where the tide went down
Will show again when the tide is high
Faint and perilous, far from shore,
No place to dream,... (Read full poem)
25. The Oldest Child - written by Charles Simic
From A Wedding In Hell.
Published in 1994.
Read 1488 times on American Poems.
The night still frightens you.
You know it is interminable
And of vast, unimaginable dimensions.
"That's because His insomnia is permanent,"
You've read some mystic say.
Is it the point of His schoolboy's compass
That pricks your... (Read full poem)
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