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The term "G. H. Oden Once in awhile the moon turns" has been searched for 28 times on the American Poems site since June 29th, 2007.
Search Results: 5 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Turns And Movies: Zudora - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 1477 times on American Poems.
Here on the pale beach, in the darkness;
With the full moon just to rise;
They sit alone, and look over the sea,
Or into each other's eyes. . .
She pokes her parasol into the sleepy sand,
Or sifts the lazy whiteness through her hand.
'A lovely... (Read full poem)
2. The Moon was but a Chin of Gold - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5054 times on American Poems.
The Moon was but a Chin of Gold
A Night or two ago --
And now she turns Her perfect Face
Upon the World below --
Her Forehead is of Amplest Blonde --
Her Cheek -- a Beryl hewn --
Her Eye unto the Summer Dew
The likest I have known --
Her Lips of... (Read full poem)
3. Everything That Acts Is Actual - written by Denise Levertov
Read 786 times on American Poems.
From the tawny light
from the rainy nights
from the imagination finding
itself and more than itself
alone and more than alone
at the bottom of the well where the moon lives,
can you pull me
into December? a lowland
of space, perception of... (Read full poem)
4. Child Moon - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 3498 times on American Poems.
The child's wonder
At the old moon
Comes back nightly.
She points her finger
To the far silent yellow thing
Shining through the branches
Filtering on the leaves a golden sand,
Crying with her little tongue, "See the moon!"
And in her bed... (Read full poem)
5. Losers - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3204 times on American Poems.
IF I should pass the tomb of Jonah
I would stop there and sit for awhile;
Because I was swallowed one time deep in the dark
And came out alive after all.
If I pass the burial spot of Nero
I shall say to the wind, “Well, well!”—
I... (Read full poem)
6. River Moons - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1985 times on American Poems.
THE DOUBLE moon, one on the high back drop of the west, one on the curve of the river face,
The sky moon of fire and the river moon of water, I am taking these home in a basket, hung on an elbow, such a teeny weeny elbow, in my head.
I saw them last... (Read full poem)
7. moonchild - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 907 times on American Poems.
whatever slid into my mother's room that
late june night, tapping her great belly,
summoned me out roundheaded and unsmiling.
is this the moon, my father used to grin.
cradling me? it was the moon
but nobody knew it then.
the moon... (Read full poem)
8. Evening Star - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 5150 times on American Poems.
'Twas noontide of summer,
And mid-time of night;
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, thro' the light
Of the brighter, cold moon,
'Mid planets her slaves,
Herself in the Heavens,
Her beam on the waves.
I gazed awhile
On her cold... (Read full poem)
9. Turns And Movies: Violet Moore And Bert Moore - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 1139 times on American Poems.
He thinks her little feet should pass
Where dandelions star thickly grass;
Her hands should lift in sunlit air
Sea-wind should tangle up her hair.
Green leaves, he says, have never heard
A sweeter ragtime mockingbird,
Nor has the moon-man ever... (Read full poem)
10. Which is the best -- the Moon or the Crescent? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1316 times on American Poems.
Which is the best -- the Moon or the Crescent?
Neither -- said the Moon --
That is best which is not -- Achieve it --
You efface the Sheen.
Not of detention is Fruition --
Shudder to attain.
Transport's decomposition follows --
He is Prism born.(Read full poem)
11. Tonight - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 2732 times on American Poems.
The moon is a curving flower of gold,
The sky is still and blue;
The moon was made for the sky to hold,
And I for you.
The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity was made for them,
To-night for us.(Read full poem)
12. The Crescent Moon - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 5420 times on American Poems.
Slipping softly through the sky
Little horned, happy moon,
Can you hear me up so high?
Will you come down soon?
On my nursery window-sill
Will you stay your steady flight?
And then float away with me
Through the summer night?
Brushing over... (Read full poem)
13. To the Reader at Parting. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1713 times on American Poems.
NOW, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
We must separate awhile—Here! take from my lips this kiss.
Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
So long!—And I hope we shall meet again.(Read full poem)
14. Mirror - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1961.
Read 31998 times on American Poems.
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful --
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite... (Read full poem)
15. Horse Fiddle - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3015 times on American Poems.
FIRST I would like to write for you a poem to be shouted in the teeth of a strong wind.
Next I would like to write one for you to sit on a hill and read down the river valley on a late summer afternoon, reading it in less than a whisper to Jack on... (Read full poem)
16. Look Down, Fair Moon. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3013 times on American Poems.
LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs, with their arms toss’d wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.(Read full poem)
17. God's Wheel - written by Shel Silverstein
From A Light in the Attic.
Published in 1981.
Read 55180 times on American Poems.
God says to me with a kind of smile,
"Hey how would you like to be God awhile
And steer the world?"
"Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try.
Where do I set?
How much do I get?
What time is lunch?
When can I quit?"
"Gimme back that... (Read full poem)
18. Ah, Moon -- and Star! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4737 times on American Poems.
Ah, Moon -- and Star!
You are very far --
But were no one
Farther than you --
Do you think I'd stop
For a Firmament --
Or a Cubit -- or so?
I could borrow a Bonnet
Of the Lark --
And a Chamois' Silver Boot --
And a stirrup of an Antelope --
And be... (Read full poem)
19. Chinamen Jump - written by Frank O\'Hara
Read 790 times on American Poems.
At night Chinamen jump
on Asia with a thump
while in our willful way
we, in secret, play
affectionate games and bruise
our knees like China's shoes.
The birds push apples through
grass the moon turns blue,
these apples roll beneath
our buttocks... (Read full poem)
20. At Night Chinamen Jump - written by Frank O\'Hara
Read 816 times on American Poems.
At night Chinamen jump
on Asia with a thump
while in our willful way
we, in secret, play
affectionate games and bruise
our knees like China's shoes.
The birds push apples through
grass the moon turns blue,
these apples roll beneath
our buttocks... (Read full poem)
21. Moonset - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2964 times on American Poems.
LEAVES of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west.
Moon sand on the canal doubles the changing pictures.
The moon’s good-by ends pictures.
The west is empty. All else is empty. No moon-talk at all now.
Only dark listening to... (Read full poem)
22. Moon And Sea - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1119 times on American Poems.
You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:
The tide of hope swells high within my breast,
And hides the rough dark rocks of life’s unrest
When your fond eyes smile near in perigee.
But when that loving face is turned from me,
Low falls the... (Read full poem)
23. I Sang - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 3420 times on American Poems.
I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
I sang
O reckless free-hearted
free-throated rythms,
Even the moon remembers them
And is kind to me.(Read full poem)
24. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 1035 times on American Poems.
The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
He bites it, day by day,
Until there's but a rim of scraps
That crumble all away.
The South Wind is a baker.
He kneads clouds in his den,
And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy
North . . . Wind .... (Read full poem)
25. Half Moon in a High Wind - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1379 times on American Poems.
MONEY is nothing now, even if I had it,
O mooney moon, yellow half moon,
Up over the green pines and gray elms,
Up in the new blue.
Streel, streel,
White lacey mist sheets of cloud,
Streel in the blowing of the wind,
Streel over the... (Read full poem)
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