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Subject: ANXIETY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 MOOD, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness
Last Line: Such hurt perchance as nature feels when a blossomed bough is broken.
Subject(s): Anxiety


AMUSE-BOUCHE, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I miss the moshpit pushed to the side of the bed.
Subject(s): Anxiety


ANXIETY, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't expect the anxiety to go away
Last Line: Whos eforttunes have been bound up %with ours for so long
Subject(s): Anxiety


ANXIETY, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awakened by the radiant beams of morn
Last Line: That ruffled bosom soothes to calm delight.
Subject(s): Anxiety


ANXIETY FOR THE FUTURE, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Korf, whom worry easily attacks
Last Line: Drawing up a vast design %for the protection of sunshine
Subject(s): Anxiety; Future


ANXIETY'S PROSODY, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxiety clears meat chunks out of the stew
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Anxiety; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity


ANXIETY'S PROSODY, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxiety clears meat chunks out of the stew
Last Line: Suasive turnings, mild natures tangled still in knotted clumps [or, suavive turnings, skirts mild na
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Anxiety; Creative Ability


BURDEN, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a kind of joy found only at the end of waiting
Last Line: Until the next time, it is more than enough, more than enough
Subject(s): Anxiety; Disease; Fear


EXCREMENT POEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done by us all, as god disposes, from
Last Line: I honor shit for saying: we go on
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Anxiety; Excrement


IN MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Punishment? Banishment? The empty room
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Separation; Insomnia; Anxiety; Sleeplessness


IN THE TAXI TO THE MRI, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I try to concentrate on the weather. Everything
Subject(s): Marriage; Illness; Anxiety; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IT JUST SO HAPPENS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You fingered the white top
Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground
Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How easily my heart falls back into habits
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Anxiety; Jazz; Music & Musicians


IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How easily my heart falls back into habits
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Anxiety; Jazz; Music And Musicians


LONGING TO BE SAVED, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the barn catches fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Anxiety


MEA CULPA, by HELEN FOGWILL PORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He talked with authority
Last Line: Stressed out and stressless %lying side by side
Subject(s): Anxiety; Books


MY ANXIETY / INNOEKNTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the grass turn brown on top of my crazy skull
Last Line: Their hands have been broken. Their eyes are blind
Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Anxiety


MY FOES, by KATHREEN FOSS PETERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If worry and fret did any good
Last Line: I should be a millionaire!
Subject(s): Anxiety; Enemies; Hades


NERVES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The modern malady of love is nerves
Last Line: Of heaven, and, waking in the darkness, screams.
Subject(s): Anxiety


NO SPITTING UP, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People in glass elevators shouldn't caary snow shovels
Subject(s): Elevators; Anxiety


PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When despair for the world grows in me
Last Line: I rest in the grace of the world, and am free
Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness


PERHAPS ...; FOR THE LONELINESS OF AN AUTHOR, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps these thoughts of ours / will never find an audience
Last Line: We have no choice
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Anxiety; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


PROBLEM OF ANXIETY, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years have passed
Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased
Subject(s): Anxiety; Time


SANDY ISLE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the south-wind comes a-bringing
Last Line: Sandy isle.
Subject(s): Anxiety; Islands; Memory


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall I refuge seek, if you refuse me?
Last Line: My only grief and kindness pity need!
Subject(s): Courtship; Anxiety


SHORT HISTORY OF ANXIETY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider dresses: the shapes
Last Line: So, what is your particular purpose? %what is your urgent need?
Subject(s): Anxiety; Frontier And Pioneer Life; History; Women - Captives


SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unmoved by what the wind does
Subject(s): Night; Anxiety; Bedtime


SOLICITUDE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me your transport is a dim surmise
Last Line: This wonder that my breast has never known.
Subject(s): Anxiety


STORMS, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been sweating again, a symptom
Subject(s): Anxiety


THE EXCREMENT POEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done by us all, as god disposes, from
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Anxiety; Excrement


THE GOODNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood still by her bed
Subject(s): Children; Anxiety; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood


THE LAND OF CONTENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I set out for the land of content
Last Line: I came to the land of content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Anxiety; Fame; God; Soul; Travel; Reputation; Journeys; Trips


THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ANNA TOWN, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What an anxious existence I led
Last Line: Is dear to us
Subject(s): Anxiety


THE LOON, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A loon woke me this morning. It was like waking up
Subject(s): Loons; Anxiety


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 37, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it just the wind
Last Line: But I only become more restless
Subject(s): Wind; Anxiety


THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When despair for the world grows in me
Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness


THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years have passed
Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased
Subject(s): Anxiety; Time


THE RED HAT, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It started before christmas. Now our son
Subject(s): Parents; Anxiety; Parenthood


THE SOLDIER'S FIRESIDE, AFTER A BATTLE, by M. T. C.    Poem Text                    
First Line: They sat by the dying embers
Last Line: And hope for their country too.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Anxiety; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


TURN OFF THE NEWS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxiety gallops through chatter
Last Line: Sneeze
Subject(s): Anxiety; News


VICTOR JOFFRE!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The summer's night was falling o'er the / marne
Last Line: In chaos. There calm and stern, stood—victor joffre.
Subject(s): Anxiety; Blood; Death; Fights; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; Dead, The