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The term "w e b duboise don't be afraid" has been searched for 5 times on the American Poems site since September 2nd, 2007.
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1. Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3112 times on American Poems.
Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?
Not Death -- for who is He?
The Porter of my Father's Lodge
As much abasheth me!
Of Life? 'Twere odd I fear [a] thing
That comprehendeth me
In one or two existences --
As Deity decree --
Of Resurrection? Is the... (Read full poem)
2. I am afraid to own a Body -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2464 times on American Poems.
I am afraid to own a Body --
I am afraid to own a Soul --
Profound -- precarious Property --
Possession, not optional --
Double Estate -- entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir --
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.(Read full poem)
3. mrs... (15) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 5911 times on American Poems.
mrs
& mr across the way are kind of
afraid)afraid
of what(of
a crazy man)don't
ask me how i know(a he of head
comes to some dirty window every)twilight i
feel(his lousy eyes roaming)wonderful all
sky(a little mouth)stumbling(can't
keep up... (Read full poem)
4. The Bee is not afraid of me. - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6207 times on American Poems.
The Bee is not afraid of me.
I know the Butterfly.
The pretty people in the Woods
Receive me cordially --
The Brooks laugh louder when I come --
The Breezes madder play;
Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists,
Wherefore, Oh Summer's Day?(Read full poem)
5. For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid - written by William Stafford
Read 1894 times on American Poems.
There is a country to cross you will
find in the corner of your eye, in
the quick slip of your foot--air far
down, a snap that might have caught.
And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing
voice that finds its way by being
afraid. That country is... (Read full poem)
6. kumrads die because they're told) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 5202 times on American Poems.
kumrads die because they're told)
kumrads die before they're old
(kumrads aren't afraid to die
kumrads don't
and kumrads won't
believe in life)and death knows whie
(all good kumrads you can tell
by their altruistic smell
moscow pipes good kumrads... (Read full poem)
7. The Homebody - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 2097 times on American Poems.
There still are kindly things for me to know,
Who am afraid to dream, afraid to feel-
This little chair of scrubbed and sturdy deal,
This easy book, this fire, sedate and slow.
And I shall stay with them, nor cry the woe
Of wounds across my breast... (Read full poem)
8. Dying! To be afraid of thee - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2142 times on American Poems.
Dying! To be afraid of thee
One must to thine Artillery
Have left exposed a Friend --
Than thine old Arrow is a Shot
Delivered straighter to the Heart
The leaving Love behind.
Not for itself, the Dust is shy,
But, enemy, Beloved be
Thy Batteries... (Read full poem)
9. A Stone Is Nobody's - written by Russell Edson
Read 2149 times on American Poems.
A man ambushed a stone. Caught it. Made it a prisoner.
Put it in a dark room and stood guard over it for the
rest of his life.
His mother asked why.
He said, because it's held captive, because it is
captured.
Look, the stone is asleep, she... (Read full poem)
10. The Last Mowing - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 4247 times on American Poems.
There's a place called Far-away Meadow
We never shall mow in again,
Or such is the talk at the farmhouse:
The meadow is finished with men.
Then now is the chance for the flowers
That can't stand mowers and plowers.
It must be now, through, in... (Read full poem)
11. George Gray - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 5463 times on American Poems.
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me --
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked... (Read full poem)
12. The Pilot - written by Russell Edson
Read 982 times on American Poems.
Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star
which an old man can see. He looks at it. He can
see it. It is the star of the room; an electrical
freckle that has fallen out of his head and gotten
stuck in the dirt on the window.
He thinks he... (Read full poem)
13. Social Security - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 614 times on American Poems.
No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.
even in the safety zones, it's not safe.
Even safe sex is not safe.
Even things you lock in a safe
are not safe. Never deposit anything
in a safety deposit box, because it
won't be safe there. Nobody... (Read full poem)
14. We shun it ere it comes, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1271 times on American Poems.
We shun it ere it comes,
Afraid of Joy,
Then sue it to delay
And lest it fly,
Beguile it more and more --
May not this be
Old Suitor Heaven,
Like our dismay at thee?(Read full poem)
15. Next Day - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2116 times on American Poems.
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All,
I take a box
And add it to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens.
The slacked or shorted, basketed, identical
Food-gathering flocks
Are selves I overlook. Wisdom, said William James,
Is learning what to... (Read full poem)
16. Confession - written by Louise Gluck
Read 3441 times on American Poems.
To say I'm without fear--
It wouldn't be true.
I'm afraid of sickness, humiliation.
Like anyone, I have my dreams.
But I've learned to hide them,
To protect myself
From fulfillment: all happiness
Attracts the Fates' anger.
They are... (Read full poem)
17. Baffled for just a day or two - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5497 times on American Poems.
Baffled for just a day or two --
Embarrassed -- not afraid --
Encounter in my garden
An unexpected Maid.
She beckons, and the woods start --
She nods, and all begin --
Surely, such a country
I was never in!(Read full poem)
18. What the Rattlesnake Said - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 495 times on American Poems.
The moon's a little prairie-dog.
He shivers through the night.
He sits upon his hill and cries
For fear that I will bite.
The sun's a broncho. He's afraid
Like every other thing,
And trembles, morning, noon and night,
Lest I should... (Read full poem)
19. The Elves - written by Denise Levertov
Read 600 times on American Poems.
Elves are no smaller
than men, and walk
as men do, in this world,
but with more grace than most,
and are not immortal.
Their beauty sets them aside
from other men and from women
unless a woman has that cold fire in her
called poet: with... (Read full poem)
20. Love Poem - written by Louise Gluck
Read 3301 times on American Poems.
There is always something to be made of pain.
Your mother knits.
She turns out scarves in every shade of red.
They were for Christmas, and they kept you warm
while she married over and over, taking you
along. How could it work,
when all those... (Read full poem)
21. Because - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 4974 times on American Poems.
Oh, because you never tried
To bow my will or break my pride,
And nothing of the cave-man made
You want to keep me half afraid,
Nor ever with a conquering air
You thought to draw me unaware --
Take me, for I love you more
Than I ever loved... (Read full poem)
22. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1902 times on American Poems.
Here, where the Daisies fit my Head
'Tis easiest to lie
And every Grass that plays outside
Is sorry, some, for me.
Where I am not afraid to go
I may confide my Flower --
Who was not Enemy of Me
Will gentle be, to Her.
Nor separate, Herself and... (Read full poem)
23. When Etna basks and purrs - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1059 times on American Poems.
When Etna basks and purrs
Naples is more afraid
Than when she show her Garnet Tooth --
Security is loud --(Read full poem)
24. Trudging to Eden, looking backward, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1158 times on American Poems.
Trudging to Eden, looking backward,
I met Somebody's little Boy
Asked him his name -- He lisped me "Trotwood" --
Lady, did He belong to thee?
Would it comfort -- to know I met him --
And that He didn't look afraid?
I couldn't weep -- for so many... (Read full poem)
25. A Secret told - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3578 times on American Poems.
A Secret told --
Ceases to be a Secret -- then --
A Secret -- kept --
That -- can appal but One --
Better of it -- continual be afraid --
Than it --
And Whom you told it to -- beside --(Read full poem)
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