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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORRY Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHALLENGE TO WORRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worry, worry, shifty-eyed Last Line: Hope you've gone to stay! Subject(s): Worry A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A FATHER TELLS HIS SON, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about his life is the amount of time he has spent w Subject(s): Worry; Conduct Of Life; Anxiety A PREMONITION; CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 1913, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey walls, broad fields, fresh voices, rippling weir Last Line: And knowledge is a pang, like love of yore. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Worry ADVICE TO WORRIERS, by GEORGE SIMON KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray list to me a modest while Last Line: If someone has a dipper. Subject(s): Worry ASHES TO ASHES, by HARRIET WINTON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Ashes to ashes, and one by one Last Line: We search for it long, with tears? Subject(s): Grief; Worry; Sorrow; Sadness AT HALF-MAST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You didn't know billy, did you? Well, bill was one of the boys Last Line: "you'll find me, boys, where my handkerchief is flyin' at half-mast." Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Worry; Dead, The COUGHS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say little boys Last Line: Where it's safer to let it go off. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Worry; Childhood DEAR DYING TOWN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The food is cheap; the squirrels are black; the box factories have all Last Line: P.S.: remember susanville, where restore the night sky has become the town cry Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Towns; Worry DID THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR MOTHER?, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love a man who is not worth Subject(s): Men; Worry DID THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR MOTHER?, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love a man who is not worth Last Line: Unclench my teeth long enough %to tell him so Subject(s): Men; Worry GET A TRANSFER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you are on the gloomy line Last Line: That lands you at the station hope -- / get a transfer! Subject(s): Hope;worry; Optimism GUATEMALAN WORRY DOLLS, by JAMES REISS Poem Source First Line: The handcrafted dolls %my friend gave guests at her wedding Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Worry IMAGINARY TROUBLE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the tolls that I have paid Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Imagination; Worry; Fancy IN THE BLACK CAMARO, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the orange glow of taillights, I crossed Last Line: A truck in a thicket a half-mile downstream. Subject(s): Conspiracy; Insurance & Insurance Agents; Popular Culture - United States; Worry KOMBOLOIA, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: These beads aren't told with prayers Last Line: And all of worry's deep %and wide fraternity Subject(s): Beads; Prayer; Worry LOST AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair did I lose thee, my honey Last Line: I kiss'd, sung, and linked with her home from the fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Worry; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations MAN WHO FRETS AT WORLDLY STRIFE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Great lord! What fools ye be' Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Worry MY FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother doesn't want to give the party Last Line: Rather pleased about it all %and says: I am an ancient man Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Worry NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we all worried most about Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Rivers; Worry NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we all worried most about Last Line: And what runs underground is water now, %the sweet elixir of our tears Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Rivers; Worry PHONE CALL FROM ARIZONA, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife tells me she's going to sleep Last Line: Like a tongue, like a spur, %or a gun barrel turning Subject(s): Marriage; Night; Sleep; Worry PREMONITION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled syllables that nature speaks Last Line: And swelling into rapture from this sigh. Subject(s): Nature; Worry PROVIDER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say he's at the company christmas party Last Line: No place to call home Subject(s): Fathers; Houses; Men; Paranoia; Professions; Worry SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's an enormous spider that no longer moves Last Line: And today when worry that traveler brought me! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worry SPLINTERS: 1. THE ORIGIN OF WOE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon I met my woe Last Line: A fantastic detachment and wore a reversible cape Subject(s): Worry THE DREADED TASK, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: I found the task that I had dreaded so Last Line: And dread once conquered means a victory won. Subject(s): Fear; Worry THE VICTIM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worry, the monster, hangs on my back Last Line: Worry has me in thrall. Subject(s): Worry TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The taste is strong as ever, Subject(s): Time; Silence; Cell Phones; Taste (sense); Love; Worry WHAT IF, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: What if you decided not to worry %for one whole day Last Line: One time %and see what happens Subject(s): Worry WORRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Worry - is like a distant hill Last Line: Is not as steep and sheer as we / have pictured in our mind Subject(s): Worry WORRY, by FRANCES BARBER Poem Text First Line: My name is worry and I force myself Last Line: Half beast, half man, left living by god's grace. Subject(s): Worry WORRY, by MARGARET H. HAY Poem Text First Line: Worry is a fretful little dog Last Line: Until my wits, as water, run together. Subject(s): Worry WORRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worry -- a petty madness, weak and crude Last Line: And, in all darkness, we shall understand. Subject(s): Worry WORRYWART, by JOY WOSU Poem Source First Line: Worrisome you Last Line: Health's too precious to swim with worries Subject(s): Worry |
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