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The term "Back and forth, the waves will go" has been searched for 27 times on the American Poems site since September 26th, 2005.
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1. After the Sea-Ship. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3025 times on American Poems.
AFTER the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the... (Read full poem)
2. My Fathers, The Baltic - written by Philip Levine
Read 637 times on American Poems.
Along the strand stones,
busted shells, wood scraps,
bottle tops, dimpled
and stainless beer cans.
Something began here
a century ago,
a nameless disaster,
perhaps a voyage
to the lost continent
where I was born.
Now the cold winds
of... (Read full poem)
3. This Life - written by William Stafford
Read 2269 times on American Poems.
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach
We would climb the highest dune,
from there to gaze and come down:
the ocean was performing;
we contributed our climb.
Waves leapfrogged and came
straight out of the storm.
What should our gaze mean?
Kit... (Read full poem)
4. Introductory Verses - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 334 times on American Poems.
Oh, you who read some song that I have sung –
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung?
Dost dream the poet ever speaks aloud
His secret thought unto the listening crowd?
Go take the murmuring sea-shell from the shore-
You have its... (Read full poem)
5. 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)
6. Spring Rain - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 4361 times on American Poems.
I thought I had forgotten,
But it all came back again
To-night with the first spring thunder
In a rush of rain.
I remembered a darkened doorway
Where we stood while the storm swept by,
Thunder gripping the earth
And lightning scrawled on the... (Read full poem)
7. An Ending - written by Philip Levine
Read 1331 times on American Poems.
Early March.
The cold beach deserted. My kids
home in a bare house, bundled up
and listening to rock music
pirated from England. My wife
waiting for me in a bar, alone
for an hour over her sherry, and none
of us knows why I have to pace
back... (Read full poem)
8. Or from that Sea of Time. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1931 times on American Poems.
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OR, from that Sea of Time,
Spray, blown by the wind—a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells;
(O little shells, so curious-convolute! so limpid-cold and voiceless!
Yet will you not, to the tympans of temples held,
Murmurs and echoes... (Read full poem)
9. All Day Long - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 2297 times on American Poems.
ALL day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.
My boy, he went to sea, long and long ago,
Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap,
He looked at me from blue and steely eyes;
Natty,... (Read full poem)
10. Gettysburg - written by Herman Melville
Read 3843 times on American Poems.
O Pride of the days in prime of the months
Now trebled in great renown,
When before the ark of our holy cause
Fell Dagon down-
Dagon foredoomed, who, armed and targed,
Never his impious heart enlarged
Beyond that hour; God walled his power,
And... (Read full poem)
11. A Japanese Wood-Carving - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 3576 times on American Poems.
High up above the open, welcoming door
It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim.
Once, long ago, it was a waving tree
And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves
Of forest trees, in a thick eastern wood.
The winter snows had bent its... (Read full poem)
12. I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, - written by Stephen Crane
From War is Kind & Other Lines.
Published in 1899.
Read 2126 times on American Poems.
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,
The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving,
The little cry of a man to a man,
A shadow falling across the greyer night,
And the sinking of the small star;
Then... (Read full poem)
13. The Queen of Bubbles - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 596 times on American Poems.
[Written for a picture]
The Youth speaks: —:
"Why do you seek the sun
In your bubble-crown ascending?
Your chariot will melt to mist.
Your crown will have an ending."
The Goddess replies: — :
"Nay, sun is but a bubble,
Earth is... (Read full poem)
14. In Praise of Songs that Die - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 470 times on American Poems.
AFTER HAVING READ A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD CURRENT POETRY IN THE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
Ah, they are passing, passing by,
Wonderful songs, but born to die!
Cries from the infinite human seas,
Waves thrice-winged with harmonies.
Here I stand... (Read full poem)
15. In Cabin’d Ships at Sea. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 10664 times on American Poems.
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IN cabin’d ships, at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music of the waves—the large imperious waves—In
such,
Or some lone bark, buoy’d on the dense marine,
Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white... (Read full poem)
16. Fall Creek - written by Ron Rash
From Raising the Dead.
Published in 2002.
Read 528 times on American Poems.
As though shedding an old skin,
Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight,
clots of leaves blackening snags,
back of pool where years ago
local lore claims clothes were shed
by a man and woman wed
less than a month, who let hoe
and plow handle slip... (Read full poem)
17. The Space Coast - written by Deborah Ager
From American Literary Review.
Published in 2002.
Read 5033 times on American Poems.
Florida
An Airedale rolling through green frost,
cabbage palms pointing their accusing leaves
at whom, petulant waves breaking at my feet.
I ran from them. Nights, yellow lights
scoured sand. What was ever found
but women in skirts folded... (Read full poem)
18. As Consequent, Etc. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1410 times on American Poems.
AS consequent from store of summer rains,
Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing,
Or many a herb-lined brook’s reticulations,
Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,
Songs of continued years I sing.
Life’s ever-modern rapids... (Read full poem)
19. When they come back -- if Blossoms do -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2537 times on American Poems.
When they come back -- if Blossoms do --
I always feel a doubt
If Blossoms can be born again
When once the Art is out --
When they begin, if Robins may,
I always had a fear
I did not tell, it was their last Experiment
Last Year,
When it is May, if... (Read full poem)
20. Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet - written by Tony Hoagland
Read 818 times on American Poems.
At this height, Kansas
is just a concept,
a checkerboard design of wheat and corn
no larger than the foldout section
of my neighbor's travel magazine.
At this stage of the journey
I would estimate the distance
between myself and my own... (Read full poem)
21. The Daughter Goes To Camp - written by Sharon Olds
Read 2101 times on American Poems.
In the taxi alone, home from the airport,
I could not believe you were gone. My palm kept
creeping over the smooth plastic
to find your strong meaty little hand and
squeeze it, find your narrow thigh in the
noble ribbing of the... (Read full poem)
22. Song - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 5067 times on American Poems.
Oh! To be a flower
Nodding in the sun,
Bending, then upspringing
As the breezes run;
Holding up
A scent-brimmed cup,
Full of summer's fragrance to the summer sun.
Oh! To be a butterfly
Still, upon a flower,
Winking with its painted... (Read full poem)
23. The Whistling Girl - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 3436 times on American Poems.
Back of my back, they talk of me,
Gabble and honk and hiss;
Let them batten, and let them be-
Me, I can sing them this:
"Better to shiver beneath the stars,
Head on a faithless breast,
Than peer at the night through rusted bars,
And share an... (Read full poem)
24. Francesca - written by Ezra Pound
Read 3407 times on American Poems.
You came in out of the night
And there were flowers in your hand,
Now you will come out of a confusion of people,
Out of a turmoil of speech about you.
I who have seen you amid the primal things
Was angry when they spoke your name
IN... (Read full poem)
25. Evening Song Of Senlin - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 1643 times on American Poems.
from Senlin: A Biography
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence
I ascend my stairs once more,
While waves, remote in a pale blue starlight,
Crash on a white sand shore.
It is moonlight. The garden is silent.
I stand in my room alone.
Across... (Read full poem)
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