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The term "Back in Jail" has been searched for 40 times on the American Poems site since June 12th, 2005.
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1. Knowlt Hoheimer - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 589 times on American Poems.
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
When I felt the bullet enter my heart
I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail
For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary,
Instead of running away and joining the army,
Rather a thousand... (Read full poem)
2. Ossawatomie - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1406 times on American Poems.
I DON’T know how he came,
shambling, dark, and strong.
He stood in the city and told men:
My people are fools, my people are young and strong, my people must learn, my people are terrible workers and fighters.
Always he kept on asking: Where... (Read full poem)
3. The Gamblers - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 463 times on American Poems.
Life's a jail where men have common lot.
Gaunt the one who has, and who has not.
All our treasures neither less nor more,
Bread alone comes thro' the guarded door.
Cards are foolish in this jail, I think,
Yet they play for shoes, for... (Read full poem)
5. Dr. Siegfried Iseman - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 721 times on American Poems.
I said when they handed me my diploma,
I said to myself I will be good
And wise and brave and helpful to others;
I said I will carry the Christian creed
Into the practice of medicine!
Somehow the world and the other doctors
Know what's in... (Read full poem)
6. You're right -- "the way is narrow" - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1873 times on American Poems.
You're right -- "the way is narrow" --
And "difficult the Gate" --
And "few there be" -- Correct again --
That "enter in -- thereat" --
'Tis Costly -- So are purples!
'Tis just the price of Breath --
With but the "Discount" of the Grave --
Termed... (Read full poem)
7. The Popular Heart is a Cannon first -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1403 times on American Poems.
The Popular Heart is a Cannon first --
Subsequent a Drum --
Bells for an Auxiliary
And an Afterward of Rum --
Not a Tomorrow to know its name
Nor a Past to stare --
Ditches for Realms and a Trip to Jail
For a Souvenir --(Read full poem)
8. A Little Tooth - written by Thomas Lux
From The Drowned River.
Published in 1990.
Read 2408 times on American Poems.
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It's all
over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,
your wife, get... (Read full poem)
9. The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball - written by Thomas Lux
Read 1045 times on American Poems.
each day mowed
and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre,
the machine slicing a wisp
from each blade's tip. Dust storms rose
around the roar: 6:00 P.M., every day,
spring, summer, fall. If he could mow
the snow he would.
On one side, his neighbors... (Read full poem)
10. Population Drifts - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 2345 times on American Poems.
NEW-MOWN hay smell and wind of the plain made her
a woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in
them and her hands were tough for work and there
was passion for life in her womb.
She and her man crossed the ocean and the years that
marked their... (Read full poem)
11. Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg - written by Richard Hugo
From The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir.
Published in 1973.
Read 765 times on American Poems.
You might come here Sunday on a whim.
Say your life broke down. The last good kiss
you had was years ago. You walk these streets
laid out by the insane, past hotels
that didn't last, bars that did, the tortured try
of local drivers to accelerate... (Read full poem)
12. 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)
13. The Haunted Oak - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 1213 times on American Poems.
Pray why are you so bare, so bare,
Oh, bough of the old oak-tree;
And why, when I go through the shade you throw,
Runs a shudder over me?
My leaves were green as the best, I trow,
And sap ran free in my veins,
But I say in the moonlight dim... (Read full poem)
14. Jack McGuire - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 425 times on American Poems.
They would have lynched me
Had I not been secretly hurried away
To the jail at Peoria.
And yet I was going peacefully home,
Carrying my jug, a little drunk,
When Logan, the marshal, halted me,
Called me a drunken hound and shook me,
And, when... (Read full poem)
15. The Starling - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 1941 times on American Poems.
"`I can't get
out', said the starling."
Sterne's
`Sentimental Journey'.
Forever the impenetrable wall
Of self confines my poor rebellious soul,
I never see the towering white clouds roll
Before a sturdy wind, save through the... (Read full poem)
16. Dream Song 124: Behold I bring you tidings of great joy - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 642 times on American Poems.
Behold I bring you tidings of great joy—
especially now that the snow & gale are still—
for Henry is delivered.
Not only is he delivered from the gale
but he has a little one. He's out of jail
also. It is a boy.
Henry's... (Read full poem)
17. Crater Face - written by Denise Duhamel
Read 2078 times on American Poems.
is what we called her. The story was
that her father had thrown Drano at her
which was probably true, given the way she slouched
through fifth grade, afraid of the world, recess
especially. She had acne scars
before she had acne—poxs and... (Read full poem)
18. 'Boes - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 1816 times on American Poems.
I WAITED today for a freight train to pass.
Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the
bars, went by.
And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between
cars.
Well, the cattle are respectable, I thought.
Every steer has its... (Read full poem)
19. The Grocery - written by Amy Lowell
From Men, Women and Ghosts.
Read 1709 times on American Poems.
"Hullo, Alice!"
"Hullo, Leon!"
"Say, Alice, gi' me a couple
O' them two for five cigars,
Will yer?"
"Where's your nickel?"
"My! Ain't you close!
Can't trust a feller, can yer."
"Trust you! Why
What you owe this store
Would set you up in... (Read full poem)
20. Memories of West Street and Lepke - written by Robert Lowell
From Selected Poems.
Published in 1976.
Read 5758 times on American Poems.
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming
in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning,
I hog a whole house on Boston's
"hardly passionate Marlborough Street,"
where even the man
scavenging filth in the back alley trash cans,
has two... (Read full poem)
21. The Blackbirds Are Rough Today - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2446 times on American Poems.
lonely as a dry and used orchard
spread over the earth
for use and surrender.
shot down like an ex-pug selling
dailies on the corner.
taken by tears like
an aging chorus girl
who has gotten her last check.
a hanky is in order your lord... (Read full poem)
22. Columbus - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3822 times on American Poems.
Once upon a time there was an Italian,
And some people thought he was a rapscallion,
But he wasn't offended,
Because other people thought he was splendid,
And he said the world was round,
And everybody made an uncomplimentary sound,
But he went and... (Read full poem)
23. 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)
24. 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)
25. 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)
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