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The term "BACK IN THE FOURTY SECONDS WHEN THE TIME" has been searched for 32 times on the American Poems site since July 15th, 2005.
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1. We talked with each other about each other - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1425 times on American Poems.
We talked with each other about each other
Though neither of us spoke --
We were listening to the seconds' Races
And the Hoofs of the Clock --
Pausing in Front of our Palsied Faces
Time compassion took --
Arks of Reprieve he offered to us --
Ararats... (Read full poem)
2. The Expatriates - written by Anne Sexton
Read 1348 times on American Poems.
My dear, it was a moment
to clutch for a moment
so that you may believe in it
and believing is the act of love, I think,
even in the telling, wherever it went.
In the false New England forest
where the misplanted Norwegian trees
refused to root,... (Read full poem)
3. I Remember Galileo - written by Gerald Stern
Read 1366 times on American Poems.
I remember Galileo describing the mind
as a piece of paper blown around by the wind,
and I loved the sight of it sticking to a tree,
or jumping into the backseat of a car,
and for years I watched paper leap through my cities;
but yesterday I saw... (Read full poem)
4. I think the longest Hour of all - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1850 times on American Poems.
I think the longest Hour of all
Is when the Cars have come --
And we are waiting for the Coach --
It seems as though the Time
Indignant -- that the Joy was come --
Did block the Gilded Hands --
And would not let the Seconds by --
But slowest... (Read full poem)
5. Home After Three Months Away - written by Robert Lowell
From Selected Poems.
Published in 1976.
Read 3276 times on American Poems.
Gone now the baby's nurse,
a lioness who ruled the roost
and made the Mother cry.
She used to tie
gobbets of porkrind to bowknots of gauze—
three months they hung like soggy toast
on our eight foot magnolia tree,
and helped the English... (Read full poem)
6. Dream Song 68: I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 844 times on American Poems.
I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing,
and I went on: Miss Bessie soundin good
that one, that night of all,
I feelin fari myself, taxes & things
seem to be back in line, like everybody should
and nobody in the snow on call
so, as I... (Read full poem)
7. Spirit Dity Of No Fax Line Dial Tone - written by Bob Hicok
From Crazyhorse.
Read 420 times on American Poems.
The telephone company calls and asks what the fuss is.
Betty from the telephone company, who's not concerned
with the particulars of my life. For instance
if I believe in the transubstantiation of Christ
or am gladdened at 7:02 in the morning to... (Read full poem)
8. The smouldering embers blush -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1234 times on American Poems.
The smouldering embers blush --
Oh Hearts within the Coal
Hast thou survived so many years?
The smouldering embers smile --
Soft stirs the news of Light
The stolid seconds glow
One requisite has Fire that lasts
Prometheus never knew --(Read full poem)
9. A Clock stopped - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5332 times on American Poems.
A Clock stopped --
Not the Mantel's --
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing --
That just now dangled still --
An awe came on the Trinket!
The Figures hunched, with pain --
Then quivered out of Decimals --
Into Degreeless Noon --
It... (Read full poem)
10. The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09: Cabaret - written by Conrad Aiken
From The House of Dust.
Published in 1917.
Read 1197 times on American Poems.
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence.
You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing
As other nights when we are dead will pass . . .'
Perhaps I misconstrue you: you mean only,
'How deathly pale my face looks in that glass . . .'
You... (Read full poem)
12. Telephoning In Mexican Sunlight - written by Galway Kinnell
From Imperfect Thirst.
Published in 1994.
Read 2240 times on American Poems.
Talking with my beloved in New York
I stood at the outdoor public telephone
in Mexican sunlight, in my purple shirt.
Someone had called it a man/woman
shirt. The phrase irked me. But then
I remembered that Rainer Maria
Rilke, who until he was seven... (Read full poem)
13. At The Door - written by David Wagoner
Read 730 times on American Poems.
All actors look for them-the defining moments
When what a character does is what he is.
The script may say, He goes to the door
And exits or She goes out the door stage left.
But you see your fingers touching the doorknob,
Closing around it,... (Read full poem)
14. The Clasp - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1484 times on American Poems.
She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds,
we had been in the apartment two weeks straight,
I grabbed her to keep her from shoving him over on his
face, again, and when I had her wrist
in my grasp I compressed it, fiercely, for a... (Read full poem)
15. A Negro Love Song - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 3172 times on American Poems.
Seen my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd huh sigh a little sigh,
Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye,
An' a smile go flittin' by --
Jump back,... (Read full poem)
16. The Art Of Drowning - written by Billy Collins
Read 6862 times on American Poems.
I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final... (Read full poem)
17. Gangrene - written by Philip Levine
From On The Edge.
Published in 1963.
Read 427 times on American Poems.
Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses
calomnies, vous avey conquis les coeurs.
Zola, J'accuse
One was kicked in the stomach
until he vomited, then
made to put back
into his mouth what they had
brought forth; when he tried to... (Read full poem)
18. The Retreat - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1653 times on American Poems.
this time has finished me.
I feel like the German troops
whipped by snow and the communists
walking bent
with newspapers stuffed into
worn boots.
my plight is just as terrible.
maybe more so.
victory was so close
victory was there.
as she stood... (Read full poem)
19. Stroke - written by Heather McHugh
Read 445 times on American Poems.
The literate are ill-prepared for this
snap in the line of life:
the day turns a trick
of twisted tongues and is
untiable, the month by no mere root
moon-ridden, and the yearly eloquences yielding more
than summer's part of speech times four. We... (Read full poem)
20. I Go Back To The House For A Book - written by Billy Collins
Read 2610 times on American Poems.
I turn around on the gravel
and go back to the house for a book,
something to read at the doctor's office,
and while I am inside, running the finger
of inquisition along a shelf,
another me that did not bother
to go back to the house for a... (Read full poem)
21. The Admirations -- and Contempts -- of time -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1222 times on American Poems.
The Admirations -- and Contempts -- of time --
Show justest -- through an Open Tomb --
The Dying -- as it were a Height
Reorganizes Estimate
And what We saw not
We distinguish clear --
And mostly -- see not
What We saw before --
'Tis Compound... (Read full poem)
22. Two Songs - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 6045 times on American Poems.
1.
Sex, as they harshly call it,
I fell into this morning
at ten o'clock, a drizzling hour
of traffic and wet newspapers.
I thought of him who yesterday
clearly didn't
turn me to a hot field
ready for plowing,
and longing for that young... (Read full poem)
23. Precision - written by Laurie Duesing
Read 817 times on American Poems.
The day you flew in perfect arc
from your motorcycle was the same day
I broke the perfect formation of your women
at the railing, leaving behind
your grandmother and mother, to run
and jump the fence. The stop watch hanging
from my neck,... (Read full poem)
24. Less Time - written by Richard Brautigan
Read 1745 times on American Poems.
Less time than it takes to say it, less tears than it takes to die; I've taken account
of everything, there you have it. I've made a census of the stones, they are as numerous
as my fingers and some others; I've distributed some pamphelts to the... (Read full poem)
25. Paying The Captain - written by Russell Edson
Read 1653 times on American Poems.
We get on a boat, never mind if it sinks, we pay
the captain by throwing him overboard. And when he
gets back onboard we say, captain, please don't be
angry. And he forgives us this time. And so we throw
him overboard again just to make sure we... (Read full poem)
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