1. Storm Windows - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 1151 times on American Poems.

People are putting up storm windows now,
Or were, this morning, until the heavy rain
Drove them indoors. So, coming home at noon,
I saw storm windows lying on the ground,
Frame-full of rain; through the water and glass
I saw the crushed grass, how... (Read full poem)

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)

3. On this long storm the Rainbow rose - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2976 times on American Poems.

On this long storm the Rainbow rose --
On this late Morn -- the Sun --
The clouds -- like listless Elephants --
Horizons -- straggled down --

The Birds rose smiling, in their nests --
The gales -- indeed -- were done --
Alas, how heedless were the... (Read full poem)

Glee -- The great storm is over --
Four -- have recovered the Land --
Forty -- gone down together --
Into the boiling Sand --

Ring -- for the Scant Salvation --
Toll -- for the bonnie Souls --
Neighbor -- and friend -- and Bridegroom --
Spinning... (Read full poem)

5. A Line-Storm Song - written by Robert Frost
From A Boy's Will. Published in 1913. Read 6305 times on American Poems.

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift.
The road is forlorn all day,
Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift,
And the hoof-prints vanish away.
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
Come over the hills and... (Read full poem)

TEARS! tears! tears! 
In the night, in solitude, tears; 
On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand; 
Tears—not a star shining—all dark and desolate; 
Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head:
—O who is that... (Read full poem)

7. Prayers After World War - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel. Published in 1922. Read 3054 times on American Poems.

WANDERING oversea dreamer,
Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother,
Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood,
Child of the hair let down, and tears,
Child of the cross in the south
And the star in the north,
Keeper of Egypt and Russia and... (Read full poem)

Should they whisper false of you.
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.(Read full poem)

9. Catharine Breese Livingston - written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Read 314 times on American Poems.

Tombstone


I fondly nursed an opening rose,
And view'd its beauties every day;
But ah! a withering storm arose
And swept my lovely flower away.(Read full poem)

THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, 
Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions, 
(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended’st, 
And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,) 
Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
As... (Read full poem)

11. Of Politics & Art - written by Norman Dubie
From The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001. Published in 2001. Read 349 times on American Poems.

for Allen


Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula
The winter storm
Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse.
Mrs. Whitimore, dying
Of tuberculosis, said it would be after dark
Before the snowplow and bus would reach us.

She read to us from... (Read full poem)

It's what the kids nowadays call weed. And it drifts
like clouds from his lips. He hopes no one
comes along tonight, or calls to ask for help.
Help is what he's most short on tonight.
A storm thrashes outside. Heavy seas
with gale winds from the... (Read full poem)

13. Night In Iowa - written by Deborah Ager
From Georgia Review. Published in 2000. Read 3389 times on American Poems.

Nimbus clouds erasing stars above Lamoni. 
Jaundiced lights. Silos. Loose dogs. Cows
whose stench infuses the handful of homes,
whose sad voices storm the plains with longing.(Read full poem)

There is no magic any more,
 We meet as other people do,
You work no miracle for me
 Nor I for you.

You were the wind and I the sea --
 There is no splendor any more,
I have grown listless as the pool
 Beside the shore.

But though the pool is safe... (Read full poem)

15. A Cap of Lead across the sky - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 3033 times on American Poems.

A Cap of Lead across the sky
Was tight and surly drawn
We could not find the mighty Face
The Figure was withdrawn --

A Chill came up as from a shaft
Our noon became a well
A Thunder storm combines the charms
Of Winter and of Hell.(Read full poem)

A storm was coming, that was why it was dark. The wind was blowing the fronds of the palm trees off. They were maples. I looked out the window across the big lawn. The house was huge, full of children and old people. The lion was loose. Either... (Read full poem)

17. The rainbow never tells me - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 7119 times on American Poems.

The rainbow never tells me
That gust and storm are by,
Yet is she more convincing
Than Philosophy.

My flowers turn from Forums --
Yet eloquent declare
What Cato couldn't prove me
Except the birds were here!(Read full poem)

It struck me -- every Day --
The Lightning was as new
As if the Cloud that instant slit
And let the Fire through --

It burned Me -- in the Night --
It Blistered to My Dream --
It sickened fresh upon my sight --
With every Morn that came --

I... (Read full poem)

19. The Snow-Storm - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 5237 times on American Poems.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hill and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller... (Read full poem)

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, 
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, 
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air 
Hides hill and woods, the river, and the heaven, 
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. 
The sled and... (Read full poem)

21. Under a Hat Rim - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems. Published in 1912. Read 1756 times on American Poems.

WHILE the hum and the hurry
Of passing footfalls
Beat in my ear like the restless surf
Of a wind-blown sea,
A soul came to me
Out of the look on a face.

Eyes like a lake
Where a storm-wind roams
Caught me from under
The rim of a hat.
I thought of a... (Read full poem)

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls
Ecstatically leap --
Beloved only Afternoon
That Prison doesn't keep

They storm the Earth and stun the Air,
A Mob of solid Bliss --
Alas -- that Frowns should lie in wait
For such a Foe as this --(Read full poem)

23. My People - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel. Published in 1922. Read 2124 times on American Poems.

MY people are gray,
  pigeon gray, dawn gray, storm gray.
I call them beautiful,
  and I wonder where they are going.(Read full poem)

For this my mother wrapped me warm,
And called me home against the storm,
And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
And gave me roughage in my diet,
And tucked me in my bed at eight,
And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
And watched me as I sat and... (Read full poem)

25. On this wondrous sea - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 20942 times on American Poems.

On this wondrous sea
Sailing silently,
Ho! Pilot, ho!
Knowest thou the shore
Where no breakers roar --
Where the storm is o'er?

In the peaceful west
Many the sails at rest --
The anchors fast --
Thither I pilot thee --
Land Ho! Eternity!
Ashore at... (Read full poem)