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The term "Back Wards Bill lived on a backwards hil" has been searched for 48 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2005.
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1. Dunes - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 2588 times on American Poems.
WHAT do we see here in the sand dunes of the white
moon alone with our thoughts, Bill,
Alone with our dreams, Bill, soft as the women tying
scarves around their heads dancing,
Alone with a picture and a picture coming one after the
other of all the... (Read full poem)
2. Buffalo Bill - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2163 times on American Poems.
BOY heart of Johnny Jones—aching to-day?
Aching, and Buffalo Bill in town?
Buffalo Bill and ponies, cowboys, Indians?
Some of us know
All about it, Johnny Jones.
Buffalo Bill is a slanting look of the eyes,
A slanting look under a hat on... (Read full poem)
3. His Bill an Auger is - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1093 times on American Poems.
His Bill an Auger is
His Head, a Cap and Frill
He laboreth at every Tree
A Worm, His utmost Goal.(Read full poem)
4. Buffalo Bill's - written by e.e. cummings
Read 20671 times on American Poems.
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a... (Read full poem)
5. Bill and Joe - written by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Read 745 times on American Poems.
COME, dear old comrade, you and I
Will steal an hour from days gone by,
The shining days when life was new,
And all was bright with morning dew,
The lusty days of long ago,
When you were Bill and I was Joe.
Your name may flaunt a titled... (Read full poem)
6. The Span Of Life - written by Robert Frost
From Collected Poems, Henry Holt & Co..
Read 25915 times on American Poems.
The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.(Read full poem)
7. His Bill is clasped -- his Eye forsook -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1117 times on American Poems.
His Bill is clasped -- his Eye forsook --
His Feathers wilted low --
The Claws that clung, like lifeless Gloves
Indifferent hanging now --
The Joy that in his happy Throat
Was waiting to be poured
Gored through and through with Death, to be
Assassin... (Read full poem)
8. Hod Putt - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 486 times on American Poems.
Here I lie close to the grave
Of Old Bill Piersol,
Who grew rich trading with the indians, and who
Afterwards took the bankrupt law
And emergeed from it richer than ever.
Myself grown tired of toil and poverty
And beholding how Old Bill... (Read full poem)
9. Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Bookman.
Published in 1911.
Read 251 times on American Poems.
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper)
I well recall (and who does not)
The circus bill-board hippopotamus,
whose wide distended jaws
For fear and terror were good cause.
That month, that vasty carmine cave,
Could munch with ease a... (Read full poem)
10. Madam And The Phone Bill - written by Langston Hughes
Read 14978 times on American Poems.
You say I O.K.ed
LONG DISTANCE?
O.K.ed it when?
My goodness, Central
That was then!
I'm mad and disgusted
With that Negro now.
I don't pay no REVERSED
CHARGES nohow.
You say, I will pay it--
Else you'll take out my phone?
You better let
My phone... (Read full poem)
11. A Vast Confusion - written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Read 4134 times on American Poems.
Long long I lay in the sands
Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as of some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto... (Read full poem)
12. There was a man who lived a life of fire - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 3643 times on American Poems.
There was a man who lived a life of fire.
Even upon the fabric of time,
Where purple becomes orange
And orange purple,
This life glowed,
A dire red stain, indelible;
Yet when he was dead,
He saw that he had not lived.(Read full poem)
13. Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams - written by Kenneth Koch
Read 1699 times on American Poems.
1
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.
2
We laughed at the hollyhocks together
and then I sprayed them with... (Read full poem)
14. I lived on Dread -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1451 times on American Poems.
I lived on Dread --
To Those who know
The Stimulus there is
In Danger -- Other impetus
Is numb -- and Vitalless --
As 'twere a Spur -- upon the Soul --
A Fear will urge it where
To go without the Sceptre's aid
Were Challenging Despair.(Read full poem)
15. He lived the Life of Ambush - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1136 times on American Poems.
He lived the Life of Ambush
And went the way of Dusk
And now against his subtle name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality intrenched
Within a star --(Read full poem)
16. A Curse Against Elegies - written by Anne Sexton
Read 6080 times on American Poems.
Oh, love, why do we argue like this?
I am tired of all your pious talk.
Also, I am tired of all the dead.
They refuse to listen,
so leave them alone.
Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.
Everyone was always to blame:
the... (Read full poem)
17. December At Yase - written by Gary Snyder
From The Back Country.
Published in 1968.
Read 1324 times on American Poems.
You said, that October,
In the tall dry grass by the orchard
When you chose to be free,
"Again someday, maybe ten years."
After college I saw you
One time. You were strange,
And I was obsessed with a plan.
Now ten years and more have
Gone by:... (Read full poem)
18. A Pastoral - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Judge.
Published in 1897.
Read 482 times on American Poems.
Just as the sun was setting
Back of the Western hills
Grandfather stood by the window
Eating the last of his pills.
And Grandmother, by the cupboard,
Knitting, heard him say:
“I ought to have went to the village
To fetch some more pills... (Read full poem)
19. Dream Song 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 685 times on American Poems.
Collating bones: I would have liked to do.
Henry would have been hot at that.
I missed his profession.
As a little boy I always thought
'I'm an archeologist'; who
could be more respected peaceful serious than that?
Hell talkt my brain... (Read full poem)
20. Prayer In Bad Weather - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1856 times on American Poems.
by God, I don't know what to
do.
they're so nice to have around.
they have a way of playing with
the balls
and looking at the cock very
seriously
turning it
tweeking it
examining each part
as their long hair falls on
your belly.
it's not the fucking... (Read full poem)
21. A Wicker Basket - written by Robert Creeley
Read 1858 times on American Poems.
Comes the time when it's later
and onto your table the headwaiter
puts the bill, and very soon after
rings out the sound of lively laughter--
Picking up change, hands like a walrus,
and a face like a barndoor's,
and a head without any apparent... (Read full poem)
22. Operation Memory - written by David Lehman
From Operation Memory.
Published in 1990.
Read 716 times on American Poems.
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when
Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed
Each soldier went, counting backwards from a hundred
With a needle in his arm. And there I was, in the middle
Of a recession, in the middle of a... (Read full poem)
23. The Blues - written by William Matthews
Read 668 times on American Poems.
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet
and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons?
I had pieces to learn by heart, but at twelve
you think the heart and memory are different.
"'It's a poor sort of memory that only works
backwards,' the... (Read full poem)
24. For The Foxes - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2738 times on American Poems.
don't feel sorry for me.
I am a competent,
satisfied human being.
be sorry for the others
who
fidget
complain
who
constantly
rearrange their
lives
like
furniture.
juggling mates
and
attitudes
their
confusion is
constant
and it... (Read full poem)
25. There was a land where lived no violets. - written by Stephen Crane
From War is Kind & Other Lines.
Published in 1899.
Read 2769 times on American Poems.
There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded : "Why?"
The people told him:
"Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
'Until some woman freely gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.'"
Sadly the... (Read full poem)
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