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The term "H W Longfellow's poem - sunset" has been searched for 90 times on the American Poems site since April 8th, 2007.
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1. Poem - written by Donald Justice
Read 46406 times on American Poems.
This poem is not addressed to you.
You may come into it briefly,
But no one will find you here, no one.
You will have changed before the poem will.
Even while you sit there, unmovable,
You have begun to vanish. And it does no matter.
The poem will... (Read full poem)
2. shapeshifter poems - written by Lucille Clifton
From Next.
Read 10534 times on American Poems.
1
the legend is whispered
in the women's tent
how the moon when she rises
full
follows some men into themselves
and changes them there
the season is short
but dreadful shapeshifters
they wear strange hands
they walk through the... (Read full poem)
3. Your Dog Dies - written by Raymond Carver
Read 37940 times on American Poems.
it gets run over by a van.
you find it at the side of the road
and bury it.
you feel bad about it.
you feel bad personally,
but you feel bad for your daughter
because it was her pet,
and she loved it so.
she used to croon to it
and let it... (Read full poem)
4. The Sunset stopped on Cottages - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1666 times on American Poems.
The Sunset stopped on Cottages
Where Sunset hence must be
For treason not of His, but Life's,
Gone Westerly, Today --
The Sunset stopped on Cottages
Where Morning just begun --
What difference, after all, Thou mak'st
Thou supercilious Sun?(Read full poem)
5. Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing - written by William Stafford
Read 10710 times on American Poems.
The light along the hills in the morning
comes down slowly, naming the trees
white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate.
Notice what this poem is not doing.
A house, a house, a barn, the old
quarry, where the river shrugs--
how much of... (Read full poem)
6. Introduction To Poetry - written by Billy Collins
From The Apple that Astonished Paris.
Published in 1988.
Read 10008 times on American Poems.
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I... (Read full poem)
7. Ars Poetica - written by Archibald MacLeish
Read 7814 times on American Poems.
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown--
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
*
A... (Read full poem)
8. Glass - written by Robert Francis
Read 2638 times on American Poems.
Words of a poem should be glass
But glass so simple-subtle its shape
Is nothing but the shape of what it holds.
A glass spun for itself is empty,
Brittle, at best Venetian trinket.
Embossed glass hides the poem or its absence.
Words should be... (Read full poem)
9. Glass - written by Robert Francis
Read 3152 times on American Poems.
Words of a poem should be glass
But glass so simple-subtle its shape
Is nothing but the shape of what it holds.
A glass spun for itself is empty,
Brittle, at best Venetian trinket.
Embossed glass hides the poem of its absence.
Words should... (Read full poem)
10. Sunset at Night -- is natural - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3887 times on American Poems.
Sunset at Night -- is natural --
But Sunset on the Dawn
Reverses Nature -- Master --
So Midnight's -- due -- at Noon.
Eclipses be -- predicted --
And Science bows them in --
But do one face us suddenly --
Jehovah's Watch -- is wrong.(Read full poem)
12. Chicks - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1755 times on American Poems.
THE CHICK in the egg picks at the shell, cracks open one oval world, and enters another oval world.
“Cheep … cheep … cheep” is the salutation of the newcomer, the emigrant, the casual at the gates of the new world.... (Read full poem)
13. From an Atlas of the Difficult World - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 11927 times on American Poems.
I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window
in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet
long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem
standing up in... (Read full poem)
14. The Poem You Asked For - written by Larry Levis
From Wrecking Crew, University of Pittsburgh Press .
Published in 1972.
Read 3098 times on American Poems.
My poem would eat nothing.
I tried giving it water
but it said no,
worrying me.
Day after day,
I held it up to the llight,
turning it over,
but it only pressed its lips
more tightly together.
It grew sullen, like a toad
through... (Read full poem)
16. An ignorance a Sunset - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2216 times on American Poems.
An ignorance a Sunset
Confer upon the Eye --
Of Territory -- Color --
Circumference -- Decay --
Its Amber Revelation
Exhilirate -- Debase --
Omnipotence' inspection
Of Our inferior face --
And when the solemn features
Confirm -- in Victory --
We... (Read full poem)
17. Smoke Rose Gold - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1703 times on American Poems.
THE DOME of the capitol looks to the Potomac river.
Out of haze over the sunset,
Out of a smoke rose gold:
One star shines over the sunset.
Night takes the dome and the river, the sun and the smoke rose gold,
The haze changes from sunset to... (Read full poem)
19. Daybreak - written by Galway Kinnell
Read 3423 times on American Poems.
On the tidal mud, just before sunset,
dozens of starfishes
were creeping. It was
as though the mud were a sky
and enormous, imperfect stars
moved across it as slowly
as the actual stars cross heaven.
All at once they stopped,
and, as if they had... (Read full poem)
20. Finis - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 547 times on American Poems.
An idle rhyme of the summer time,
Sweet, and solemn, and tender;
Fair with the haze of the moon's pale rays,
Bright with the sunset's splendour.
Summer and beauty over the lands -
Careless hours of pleasure;
A meeting of eyes and a... (Read full poem)
21. "I have heard the sunset song of the birches," - written by Stephen Crane
From War is Kind & Other Lines.
Published in 1899.
Read 2139 times on American Poems.
"I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
A white melody in the silence,
I have seen a quarrel of the pines.
At nightfall
The little grasses have rushed by me
With the wind men.
These things have I lived," quoth the maniac,
"Possessing... (Read full poem)
22. This -- is the land -- the Sunset washes - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2690 times on American Poems.
This -- is the land -- the Sunset washes --
These -- are the Banks of the Yellow Sea --
Where it rose -- or whither it rushes --
These -- are the Western Mystery!
Night after Night
Her purple traffic
Strews the landing with Opal Bales... (Read full poem)
23. Harvest Sunset - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2838 times on American Poems.
RED gold of pools,
Sunset furrows six o’clock,
And the farmer done in the fields
And the cows in the barns with bulging udders.
Take the cows and the farmer,
Take the barns and bulging udders.
Leave the red gold of pools
And sunset furrows... (Read full poem)
25. Valley Song - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1324 times on American Poems.
THE SUNSET swept
To the valley’s west, you remember.
The frost was on.
A star burnt blue.
We were warm, you remember,
And counted the rings on a moon.
The sunset swept
To the valley’s west
And was gone in a big dark door of... (Read full poem)
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