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The term "Nancy Wood" has been searched for 78 times on the American Poems site since March 15th, 2005.
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1. Cousin Nancy - written by T.S. Eliot
From Prufrock and Other Observations.
Published in 1917.
Read 5972 times on American Poems.
MISS NANCY ELLICOTT
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them—
The barren New England hills—
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were... (Read full poem)
2. Fire-Logs - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1655 times on American Poems.
NANCY HANKS dreams by the fire;
Dreams, and the logs sputter,
And the yellow tongues climb.
Red lines lick their way in flickers.
Oh, sputter, logs.
Oh, dream, Nancy.
Time now for a beautiful child.
Time now for a tall man to come.(Read full poem)
3. There was a man with tongue of wood - written by Stephen Crane
From War is Kind & Other Lines.
Published in 1899.
Read 2831 times on American Poems.
There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing,
And in truth it was lamentable.
But there was one who heard
The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood
And knew what the man
Wished to sing,
And with that the singer was content.(Read full poem)
4. On the Ruins of a Country Inn - written by Philip Freneau
From An American Anthology: 1787-1900.
Published in 1900.
Read 2122 times on American Poems.
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie
A temple once to Bacchus rose,
Beneath whose roof, aspiring high,
Full many a guest forgot his woes.
No more this dome, by tempests torn,
Affords a social safe retreat;
But ravens here, with eye... (Read full poem)
5. Barry Holden - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 640 times on American Poems.
The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp
Set fire to the house
They were trying Dr. Duval
For the murder of Zora Clemens,
And I sat in the court two weeks
Listening to every witness.
It was clear he had got her in a family way;
And to let the... (Read full poem)
6. How many Flowers fail in Wood - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2174 times on American Poems.
How many Flowers fail in Wood --
Or perish from the Hill --
Without the privilege to know
That they are Beautiful --
How many cast a nameless Pod
Upon the nearest Breeze --
Unconscious of the Scarlet Freight --
It bear to Other Eyes --(Read full poem)
7. The House In The Woods - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 1572 times on American Poems.
At the back of the houses there is the wood.
While there is a leaf of summer left, the wood
Makes sounds I can put somewhere in my song,
Has paths I can walk, when I wake, to good
Or evil: to the cage, to the oven, to the House
In the Wood. It is... (Read full poem)
8. Nancy Knapp - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 633 times on American Poems.
Well, don't you see this was the way of it:
We bought the farm with what he inherited,
And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning
His fathers mind against the rest of them.
And we never had any peace with our treasure.
The murrain... (Read full poem)
9. Frequently the wood are pink - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 12962 times on American Poems.
Frequently the wood are pink --
Frequently are brown.
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see --
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be --
And the Earth -- they tell me --
On its Axis... (Read full poem)
11. Kreisler - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1356 times on American Poems.
SELL me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood.
Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the forehead where men kiss sisters they love.
Sell me dried wood that has ached with passion clutching the knees and arms of a storm.
Sell me... (Read full poem)
12. Occasional Poems - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1958.
Read 1775 times on American Poems.
I Christmas Poem for Nancy
Noel, Noel
We live and we die
Between heaven and hell
Between the earth and the sky
And all shall be well
And all shall be unwell
And once again! all shall once again!
All shall be well
By the ringing and... (Read full poem)
13. The Tree - written by Ezra Pound
Read 8889 times on American Poems.
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
that grew elm-oak amid the wold.
'Twas not until the gods had been
Kindly entreated, and been... (Read full poem)
14. The Road Not Taken - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 278643 times on American Poems.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better... (Read full poem)
15. Helen In Egypt - written by H. D.
Read 6509 times on American Poems.
Helen herself seems almost ready for this sacrifice
—at least, for the immolation of
herself before this greatest love of Achilles,
his dedication to "his own ship" and the
figurehead, "an idol or eidolon ...
a mermaid, Thetis upon the... (Read full poem)
17. The Wood-Pile - written by Robert Frost
From North of Boston.
Published in 1914.
Read 7269 times on American Poems.
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day
I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here.
No, I will go on farther- and we shall see'.
The hard snow held me, save where now and then
One foot went through. The view was all in lines
Straight up and... (Read full poem)
18. Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer - written by Ogden Nash
Read 6137 times on American Poems.
This is a song to celebrate banks,
Because they are full of money and you go into them and all
you hear is clinks and clanks,
Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills,
Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills.
Most... (Read full poem)
19. Three Songs Of Shattering - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 1983 times on American Poems.
I
The first rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Nothing mattered.
Grief of grief has drained me clean;
Still it seems a pity
No one saw,—it must have been
Very pretty.... (Read full poem)
20. The Dance - written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Read 1012 times on American Poems.
Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf
Who was chang'd to a flow'r for admiring himself.
A part deem'd essential in each lady's dress
With what maidens cry when they wish to say yes.
A lullabye carriage, soft, cozy and light
With... (Read full poem)
21. Axe Handles - written by Gary Snyder
From Axe Handles.
Published in 1983.
Read 2384 times on American Poems.
One afternoon the last week in April
Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet
One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.
He recalls the hatchet-head
Without a handle, in the shop
And go gets it, and wants it for his own.
A broken-off axe handle behind the... (Read full poem)
22. Sculptor - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1958.
Read 2037 times on American Poems.
For Leonard Baskin
To his house the bodiless
Come to barter endlessly
Vision, wisdom, for bodies
Palpable as his, and weighty.
Hands moving move priestlier
Than priest's hands, invoke no vain
Images of light and air
But sure stations in bronze,... (Read full poem)
23. I, or Someone Like Me - written by Marvin Bell
Read 846 times on American Poems.
In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing
through trees, with a wind playing all the high notes,
and the prospect of a string bass inside the wood,
I, or someone like me, had a kind of vision.
As the person on the ground moved, bursting... (Read full poem)
24. Farmer, Dying - written by Richard Hugo
Read 690 times on American Poems.
for Hank and Nancy
Seven thousand acres of grass have faded yellow
from his cough. These limp days, his anger,
legend forty years from moon to Stevensville,
lives on, just barely, in a Great Falls whore.
Cruel times, he cries, cruel winds. His... (Read full poem)
25. The Termite - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3517 times on American Poems.
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.(Read full poem)
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