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The term "Naomi Long Margett" has been searched for 68 times on the American Poems site since June 19th, 2005.
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2. The Afterlife: Letter To Sam Hamill - written by Hayden Carruth
Read 978 times on American Poems.
You may think it strange, Sam, that I'm writing
a letter in these circumstances. I thought
it strange too--the first time. But there's
a misconception I was laboring under, and you
are too, viz. that the imagination in your
vicinity is free... (Read full poem)
3. as freedom is a breakfastfood - written by e.e. cummings
Read 23221 times on American Poems.
as freedom is a breakfastfood
or truth can live with right and wrong
or molehills are from mountains made
-long enough and just so long
will being pay the rent of seem
and genius please the talentgang
and water most encourage flame
as hatracks into... (Read full poem)
4. A long -- long Sleep -- A famous -- Sleep -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6144 times on American Poems.
A long -- long Sleep -- A famous -- Sleep --
That makes no show for Morn --
By Stretch of Limb -- or stir of Lid --
An independent One --
Was ever idleness like This?
Upon a Bank of Stone
To bask the Centuries away --
Nor once look up -- for Noon?(Read full poem)
5. All Day Long - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 2391 times on American Poems.
ALL day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.
My boy, he went to sea, long and long ago,
Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap,
He looked at me from blue and steely eyes;
Natty,... (Read full poem)
6. Long, too Long, O Land! - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3984 times on American Poems.
LONG, too long, O land,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful, you learn’d from joys and prosperity only;
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish—advancing, grappling with direst
fate,
and
recoiling not;
And now to... (Read full poem)
7. In the Long Run - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 529 times on American Poems.
In the long run fame finds the deserving man.
The lucky wight may prosper for a day,
But in good time true merit leads the van,
And vain pretense, unnoticed, goes its way.
There is no Chance, no Destiny, no Fate,
But Fortune smiles on... (Read full poem)
9. Finding A Long Gray Hair - written by Jane Kenyon
From Otherwise: New & Selected Poems.
Published in 1997.
Read 1389 times on American Poems.
I scrub the long floorboards
in the kitchen, repeating
the motions of other women
who have lived in this house.
And when I find a long gray hair
floating in the pail,
I feel my life added to theirs.(Read full poem)
10. my girl's tall with hard long eyes... (XIX) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 17203 times on American Poems.
my girl's tall with hard long eyes
as she stands, with her long hard hands keeping
silence on her dress, good for sleeping
is her long hard body filled with surprise
like a white shocking wire, when she smiles
a hard long smile it sometimes... (Read full poem)
12. Dust - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 3104 times on American Poems.
When I went to look at what had long been hidden,
A jewel laid long ago in a secret place,
I trembled, for I thought to see its dark deep fire—
But only a pinch of dust blew up in my face.
I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has... (Read full poem)
13. Villanelle of Change - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2145 times on American Poems.
Since Persia fell at Marathon,
The yellow years have gathered fast:
Long centuries have come and gone.
And yet (they say) the place will don
A phantom fury of the past,
Since Persia fell at Marathon;
And as of old, when Helicon
Trembled and... (Read full poem)
14. Branches - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1628 times on American Poems.
THE DANCING girls here … after a long night of it …
The long beautiful night of the wind and rain in April,
The long night hanging down from the drooping branches of the top of a birch tree,
Swinging, swaying, to the wind for a partner, to... (Read full poem)
15. On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin - written by Philip Freneau
Read 5106 times on American Poems.
Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood
The glory of its native wood,
By storms destroyed, or length of years,
Demands the tribute of our tears.
The pile, that took long time to raise,
To dust returns by slow decays:
But, when its destined... (Read full poem)
16. Are you Loving Enough? - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1067 times on American Poems.
Are you loving enough? There is some one dear,
Some one you hold as the dearest of all
In the holiest shrine of your heart.
Are you making it known? Is the truth of it clear
To the one you love? If death's quick call
Should suddenly tear you... (Read full poem)
17. Inland - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2896 times on American Poems.
People that build their houses inland,
People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house, and build a house there,
Far from the sea-board, far from the sound
Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
Tons of water striking the shore,—
What do... (Read full poem)
18. Let It Be Forgotten - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 5057 times on American Poems.
Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold.
Let it be forgotten forever and ever,
Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
If anyone asks, say it was forgotten
Long and long ago,
As a flower, as... (Read full poem)
19. So Long In Coming - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 551 times on American Poems.
When shall I hear the thrushes sing,
And see their graceful, round throats swelling?
When shall I watch the bluebirds bring
The straws and twiglets for their dwelling?
When shall I hear among the trees
The little martial partridge drumming?... (Read full poem)
20. Dusty Doors - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1471 times on American Poems.
CHILD of the Aztec gods,
how long must we listen here,
how long before we go?
The dust is deep on the lintels.
The dust is dark on the doors.
If the dreams shake our bones,
what can we say or do?
Since early morning we waited.
Since early,... (Read full poem)
21. A Life-Lesson - written by James Whitcomb Riley
Read 4279 times on American Poems.
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your doll, I know;
And your tea-set blue,
And your play-house, too,
Are things of the long ago;
But childish troubles will soon pass by. --
There! little girl; don't cry!
There!... (Read full poem)
22. The Mist - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 2566 times on American Poems.
I AM the mist, the impalpable mist,
Back of the thing you seek.
My arms are long,
Long as the reach of time and space.
Some toil and toil, believing,
Looking now and again on my face,
Catching a vital, olden glory.
But no one passes me,
I tangle... (Read full poem)
23. Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1597 times on American Poems.
INTO the blue river hills
The red sun runners go
And the long sand changes
And to-day is a goner
And to-day is not worth haggling over.
Here in Omaha
The gloaming is bitter
As in Chicago
Or Kenosha.
The long sand changes.
To-day... (Read full poem)
25. Iseult of Brittany - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 2790 times on American Poems.
So delicate my hands, and long,
They might have been my pride.
And there were those to make them song
Who for their touch had died.
Too frail to cup a heart within,
Too soft to hold the free-
How long these lovely hands have been
A bitterness to me!(Read full poem)
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