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The term "B B king" has been searched for 453 times on the American Poems site since February 3rd, 2005.
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1. Who Knows? - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 641 times on American Poems.
They say one king is mad. Perhaps. Who knows?
They say one king is doddering and grey.
They say one king is slack and sick of mind,
A puppet for hid strings that twitch and play.
Is Europe then to be their sprawling-place?
Their mad-house,... (Read full poem)
3. The Haughty Snail-King - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 451 times on American Poems.
Twelve snails went walking after night.
They'd creep an inch or so,
Then stop and bug their eyes
And blow.
Some folks . . . are . . . deadly . . . slow.
Twelve snails went walking yestereve,
Led by their fat old king.
They were so dull their... (Read full poem)
4. The Prisoner of Zenda - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 853 times on American Poems.
At the end a
"The Prisoner of Zenda,"
The King being out of danger,
Stewart Granger
(As Rudolph Rassendyll)
Must swallow a bitter pill
By renouncing his co-star,
Deborah Kerr.
It would be poor behavia
In him and in Princess Flavia
Were... (Read full poem)
6. Twilight Song - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 586 times on American Poems.
Through the shine, through the rain
We have shared the day’s load;
To the old march again
We have tramped the long road;
We have laughed, we have cried,
And we’ve tossed the King’s crown;
We have fought, we have died,
And we’ve trod the... (Read full poem)
7. King Arthur's Men Have Come Again - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 599 times on American Poems.
[Written while a field-worker in the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois.]
King Arthur's men have come again.
They challenge everywhere
The foes of Christ's Eternal Church.
Her incense crowns the air.
The heathen knighthood cower and curse... (Read full poem)
8. King Trisanku - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Birds Of Passage.
Read 676 times on American Poems.
Viswamitra the Magician,
By his spells and incantations,
Up to Indra's realms elysian
Raised Trisanku, king of nations.
Indra and the gods offended
Hurled him downward, and descending
In the air he hung suspended,
With these equal powers... (Read full poem)
9. Parable Of Faith - written by Louise Gluck
From Meadowlands.
Published in 1996.
Read 1433 times on American Poems.
Now, in twilight, on the palace steps
the king asks forgiveness of his lady.
He is not
duplicitous; he has tried to be
true to the moment; is there another way of being
true to the self?
The lady
hides her face, somewhat
assisted by the... (Read full poem)
10. I have a King, who does not speak - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3775 times on American Poems.
I have a King, who does not speak --
So -- wondering -- thro' the hours meek
I trudge the day away --
Half glad when it is night, and sleep,
If, haply, thro' a dream, to peep
In parlors, shut by day.
And if I do -- when morning comes --
It is as if... (Read full poem)
11. The King of Yellow Butterflies - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 558 times on American Poems.
(A Poem Game.)
The King of Yellow Butterflies,
The King of Yellow Butterflies,
The King of Yellow Butterflies,
Now orders forth his men.
He says "The time is almost here
When violets bloom again."
Adown the road the fickle rout
Goes... (Read full poem)
12. As a World Would Have It - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 580 times on American Poems.
Shall I never make him look at me again?
I look at him, I look my life at him,
I tell him all I know the way to tell,
But there he stays the same.
Shall I never make him speak one word to me?
Shall I never make him say enough to show
My... (Read full poem)
13. Where Is David, the Next King of Israel? - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 435 times on American Poems.
Where is David? . . . O God's people,
Saul has passed, the good and great.
Mourn for Saul the first-anointed —
Head and shoulders o'er the state.
He was found among the Prophets:
Judge and monarch, merged in one.
But the wars of Saul... (Read full poem)
14. To The King's Most Excellent Majesty - written by Phillis Wheatley
Published in 1768.
Read 1219 times on American Poems.
YOUR subjects hope, dread Sire--
The crown upon your brows may flourish long,
And that your arm may in your God be strong!
O may your sceptre num'rous nations sway,
And all with love and readiness obey!
But how shall we the British king... (Read full poem)
15. Madness - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 2747 times on American Poems.
(For Sara Teasdale)
The lonely farm, the crowded street,
The palace and the slum,
Give welcome to my silent feet
As, bearing gifts, I come.
Last night a beggar crouched alone,
A ragged helpless thing;
I set him on a moonbeam throne... (Read full poem)
16. Old King Cole - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 723 times on American Poems.
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole
A wise old age anticipate,
Desiring, with his pipe and bowl,
No Khan’s extravagant estate.
No crown annoyed his honest head,
No fiddlers three were called or needed;
For two disastrous heirs instead... (Read full poem)
17. I met a King this afternoon! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2940 times on American Poems.
I met a King this afternoon!
He had not on a Crown indeed,
A little Palmleaf Hat was all,
And he was barefoot, I'm afraid!
But sure I am he Ermine wore
Beneath his faded Jacket's blue --
And sure I am, the crest he bore
Within that Jacket's pocket... (Read full poem)
18. Guinevere at Her Fireside - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 3993 times on American Poems.
A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.
Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen.
(And oh, the shirts of linen-lawn,
And all the armor, tagged and tied,
And church on Sundays, dusk and dawn.
And... (Read full poem)
19. Multiplication - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2174 times on American Poems.
(For S. M. E.)
I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well;
I look my last upon His small and radiant prison-cell;
O happy lamp! to serve Him with never ceasing light!
O happy flame! to tremble forever in His sight!
I leave the holy... (Read full poem)
20. Savoir Faire - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1686 times on American Poems.
CAST a bronze of my head and legs and put them on the king’s street.
Set the cast of me here alongside Carl XII, making two Carls for the Swedish people and the utlanders to look at between the palace and the Grand Hotel.
The summer sun will... (Read full poem)
21. Roses - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 9010 times on American Poems.
(For Katherine Bregy)
I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring,
For I would make a posy, a posy for the King.
I got an hundred roses, the loveliest there be,
From the white rose vine and the pink rose bush and from the red
rose... (Read full poem)
22. The Death King - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2937 times on American Poems.
I hired a carpenter
to build my coffin
and last night I lay in it,
braced by a pillow,
sniffing the wood,
letting the old king
breathe on me,
thinking of my poor murdered body,
murdered by time,
waiting to turn stiff as a field marshal,
letting the... (Read full poem)
23. The Prarie Battlements - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 1430 times on American Poems.
(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect)
HERE upon the prarie
Is our ancestral hall.
Agate is the dome,
Cornelian the wall.
Ghouls are in the cellar,
But fays upon the stairs.
And here lived old King Silver Dreams,
Always at his... (Read full poem)
25. The Ballad Of A Bachelor - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Read 1824 times on American Poems.
Listen, ladies, while I sing
The ballad of John Henry King.
John Henry was a bachelor,
His age was thirty-three or four.
Two maids for his affection vied,
And each desired to be his bride,
And bravely did they strive to bring
Unto their feet John... (Read full poem)
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