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The term "Back to Adam" has been searched for 60 times on the American Poems site since April 2nd, 2005.
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1. On a Theme by Thomas Merton - written by Denise Levertov
Read 687 times on American Poems.
"Adam, where are you?"
God's hands
palpate darkness, the void
that is Adam's inattention,
his confused attention to everything,
impassioned by multiplicity, his despair.
Multiplicity, his despair;
God's... (Read full poem)
2. As Adam, Early in the Morning. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3313 times on American Poems.
AS Adam, early in the morning,
Walking forth from the bower, refresh’d with sleep;
Behold me where I pass—hear my voice—approach,
Touch me—touch the palm of your hand to my Body as I pass;
Be not afraid of my Body. 5(Read full poem)
3. adam thinking - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1130 times on American Poems.
she
stolen from my bone
is it any wonder
i hunger to tunnel back
inside desperate
to reconnect the rib and clay
and to be whole again
some need is in me
struggling to roar through my
mouth into a name
this creation is so fierce
i would... (Read full poem)
4. Wendell P. Bloyd - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1072 times on American Poems.
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,
There being no statute on blasphemy.
Later they locked me up as insane
Where I was beaten to death by a Catholic guard.
My offense was this:
I said God lied to Adam, and destined him
to lead the... (Read full poem)
6. What we see we know somewhat - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1227 times on American Poems.
What we see we know somewhat
Be it but a little --
What we don't surmise we do
Though it shows so fickle
I shall vote for Lands with Locks
Granted I can pick 'em --
Transport's doubtful Dividend
Patented by Adam.(Read full poem)
8. Paradise is that old mansion - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1353 times on American Poems.
Paradise is that old mansion
Many owned before --
Occupied by each an instant
Then reversed the Door --
Bliss is frugal of her Leases
Adam taught her Thrift
Bankrupt once through his excesses --(Read full poem)
9. 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)
10. Self-Portrait - written by Linda Pastan
Read 1349 times on American Poems.
After Adam Zagajewski
I am child to no one, mother to a few,
wife for the long haul.
On fall days I am happy
with my dying brethren, the leaves,
but in spring my head aches
from the flowery scents.
My husband fills a room with Mozart
which I turn... (Read full poem)
11. Taking up the fair Ideal, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1342 times on American Poems.
Taking up the fair Ideal,
Just to cast her down
When a fracture -- we discover --
Or a splintered Crown --
Makes the Heavens portable --
And the Gods -- a lie --
Doubtless -- "Adam" -- scowled at Eden --
For his perjury!
Cherishing -- our pool... (Read full poem)
12. Boy at the Window - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 4863 times on American Poems.
Seeing the snowman standing all alone
In dusk and cold is more than he can bear.
The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare
A night of gnashings and enormous moan.
His tearful sight can hardly reach to where
The pale-faced figure with bitumen... (Read full poem)
13. Adam Weirauch - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 382 times on American Poems.
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour.
I lost many friends, much time and money
Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor Whedon
Denounced as the candidate of gamblers and anarchists.
Then Armour started to ship dressed meat to Spoon River,
Forcing... (Read full poem)
14. Upon a Fit of Sickness - written by Anne Bradstreet
Published in 1632.
Read 1263 times on American Poems.
Twice ten years old not fully told
since nature gave me breath,
My race is run, my thread spun,
lo, here is fatal death.
All men must die, and so must I;
this cannot be revoked.
For Adam's sake this word God spake
when he so high... (Read full poem)
15. 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)
16. 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)
17. 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)
18. Eurydice - written by H. D.
Read 5778 times on American Poems.
Why did you turn back,
that hell should be reinhabited
of myself thus
swept into nothingness?
Why did you turn?
why did you glance back?
So you have swept me back--
I who could have walked with the live souls
above the earth.
I who could have... (Read full poem)
19. Purdah - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 2599 times on American Poems.
Jade --
Stone of the side,
The antagonized
Side of green Adam, I
Smile, cross-legged,
Enigmatical,
Shifting my clarities.
So valuable!
How the sun polishes this shoulder!
And should
The moon, my
Indefatigable cousin
Rise, with her cancerous... (Read full poem)
20. February: Thinking of Flowers - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2580 times on American Poems.
Now wind torments the field,
turning the white surface back
on itself, back and back on itself,
like an animal licking a wound.
Nothing but white--the air, the light;
only one brown milkweed pod
bobbing in the gully, smallest
brown boat on... (Read full poem)
21. Great are the Myths. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3964 times on American Poems.
1
GREAT are the myths—I too delight in them;
Great are Adam and Eve—I too look back and accept them;
Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers,
warriors,
and priests.
Great is Liberty!... (Read full poem)
22. I Shall Come Back - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 4076 times on American Poems.
I shall come back without fanfaronade
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply;
But, trembling, slip from cool Eternity-
A mild and most bewildered little shade.
I shall not make sepulchral midnight raid,
But softly come where I had longed to be
In... (Read full poem)
23. Meditation By The Stove - written by Linda Pastan
From Carnival Evening.
Published in 1998.
Read 918 times on American Poems.
I have banked the fires
of my body
into a small but steady blaze
here in the kitchen
where the dough has a life of its own,
breathing under its damp cloth
like a sleeping child;
where the real child plays under the table,
pretending the tablecloth... (Read full poem)
24. One Train May Hide Another - written by Kenneth Koch
From One Train.
Published in 1994.
Read 3104 times on American Poems.
(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya)
In a poem, one line may hide another line,
As at a crossing, one train may hide another train.
That is, if you are waiting to cross
The tracks, wait to do it for one moment at
Least after the first train is... (Read full poem)
25. Not To Keep - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 12565 times on American Poems.
They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying... And she could have him. And before
She could be sure there was no hidden ill
Under the formal writing, he was in her sight,
Living. They gave him back to her alive
How else? They are not... (Read full poem)
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