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The term "Back of the workshop%27s hammer" has been searched for 12 times on the American Poems site since January 19th, 2005.
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1. John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918 - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1295 times on American Poems.
INTO the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is a man goes into the dark and the cold and when he comes back to his people he brings fire in his hands and they remember him in the years afterward as the fire bringer—they... (Read full poem)
2. Prayers of Steel - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2793 times on American Poems.
LAY me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Drive me into the girders that hold a... (Read full poem)
3. Ippolit Konovaloff - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 329 times on American Poems.
I was a gun-smith in Odessa.
One night the police broke in the room
Where a group of us were reading Spencer.
And seized our books and arrested us.
But I escaped and came to New York
And thence to Chicago, and then to Spoon River,
Where I... (Read full poem)
4. Dream Song 52: Silent Song - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 845 times on American Poems.
Bright-eyed & bushy tailed woke not Henry up.
Bright though upon his workshop shone a vise
central, moved in
while he was doing time down hospital
and growing wise.
He gave it the worst look he had left.
Alone. They all abandoned... (Read full poem)
5. The Challenge of Thor - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Tales of a Wayside Inn.
Read 1377 times on American Poems.
I am the God Thor,
I am the War God,
I am the Thunderer!
Here in my Northland,
My fastness and fortress,
Reign I forever!
Here amid icebergs
Rule I the nations;
This is my hammer,
Miölner the mighty;
Giants and sorcerers
Cannot... (Read full poem)
6. The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator - written by Anne Sexton
Read 10503 times on American Poems.
The end of the affair is always death.
She's my workshop. Slippery eye,
out of the tribe of myself my breath
finds you gone. I horrify
those who stand by. I am fed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.
Finger to finger, now she's mine.
She's not... (Read full poem)
7. The Grammar Lesson - written by Steve Kowit
From In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop.
Published in 1995.
Read 881 times on American Poems.
A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does.
An adjective is what describes the noun.
In "The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz"
of and with are prepositions. The's
an article, a can's a noun,
a noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does.
A... (Read full poem)
8. The Auctioneer of Parting - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1179 times on American Poems.
The Auctioneer of Parting
His "Going, going, gone"
Shouts even from the Crucifix,
And brings his Hammer down --
He only sells the Wilderness,
The prices of Despair
Range from a single human Heart
To Two -- not any more --(Read full poem)
9. Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer - written by Chris Forhan
Published in 2001.
Read 377 times on American Poems.
So this is what it's like when love
leaves, and one is disappointed
that the body and mind continue to exist,
exacting payment from each other,
engaging in stale rituals of desire,
and it would seem the best use of one's time
is not to stand for... (Read full poem)
10. Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time - written by Nick Flynn
From Some Ether.
Published in 2000.
Read 1621 times on American Poems.
He reads my latest attempt at a poem
and is silent for a long time, until it feels
like that night we waited for Apollo,
my mother wandering in and out of her bedroom, asking,
Haven't they landed yet? At last
Dugan throws it on the table and... (Read full poem)
11. 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)
12. Laughing Blue Steel - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1939 times on American Poems.
TWO fishes swimming in the sea,
Two birds flying in the air,
Two chisels on an anvil—maybe.
Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each other—maybe.
Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a fish.
Sure I would rather be a chisel... (Read full poem)
13. The Walking Man of Rodin - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3065 times on American Poems.
LEGS hold a torso away from the earth.
And a regular high poem of legs is here.
Powers of bone and cord raise a belly and lungs
Out of ooze and over the loam where eyes look and ears hear
And arms have a chance to hammer and shoot and run... (Read full poem)
14. Roman Fountain - written by Louise Bogan
Read 1241 times on American Poems.
Up from the bronze, I saw
Water without a flaw
Rush to its rest in air,
Reach to its rest, and fall.
Bronze of the blackest shade,
An element man-made,
Shaping upright the bare
Clear gouts of water in air.
O, as with arm and hammer,
Still it is... (Read full poem)
15. The Evil Eye - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3650 times on American Poems.
It comes oozing
out of flowers at night,
it comes out of the rain
if a snake looks skyward,
it comes out of chairs and tables
if you don't point at them and say their names.
It comes into your mouth while you sleep,
pressing in like a... (Read full poem)
16. Hornet - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2032 times on American Poems.
A red-hot needle
hangs out of him, he steers by it
as if it were a rudder, he
would get in the house any way he could
and then he would bounce from window
to ceiling, buzzing and looking for you.
Do not sleep for he is there wrapped in the... (Read full poem)
17. Today - written by Billy Collins
Read 6191 times on American Poems.
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
a day... (Read full poem)
18. Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2362 times on American Poems.
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
Then crouch within the door --
Red -- is the Fire's common tint --
But when the vivid Ore
Has vanquished Flame's conditions,
It quivers from the Forge
Without a color, but the light
Of unanointed Blaze.
Least... (Read full poem)
19. The Fury Of Cocks - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 5492 times on American Poems.
There they are
drooping over the breakfast plates,
angel-like,
folding in their sad wing,
animal sad,
and only the night before
there they were
playing the banjo.
Once more the day's light comes
with its immense sun,
its mother trucks,... (Read full poem)
20. Let Love Go On - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3324 times on American Poems.
LET it go on; let the love of this hour be poured out till all the answers are made, the last dollar spent and the last blood gone.
Time runs with an ax and a hammer, time slides down the hallways with a pass-key and a master-key, and time gets... (Read full poem)
21. The Liars - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 6910 times on American Poems.
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes.
A liar goes in rags.
A liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
And the stonecutters earn a living—with lies—on the tombs... (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. A Winter Eden - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 7932 times on American Poems.
A winter garden in an alder swamp,
Where conies now come out to sun and romp,
As near a paradise as it can be
And not melt snow or start a dormant tree.
It lifts existence on a plane of snow
One level higher than the earth below,
One level nearer... (Read full poem)
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