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The term "Narrative or Ballad poems" has been searched for 855 times on the American Poems site since November 3rd, 2004.
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1. Odysseus' Decision - written by Louise Gluck
From Meadowlands.
Published in 1996.
Read 4965 times on American Poems.
The great man turns his back on the island.
Now he will not die in paradise
nor hear again
the lutes of paradise among the olive trees,
by the clear pools under the cypresses. Time
begins now, in which he hears again
that pulse which is the... (Read full poem)
2. Never for Society - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5449 times on American Poems.
Never for Society
He shall seek in vain --
Who His own acquaintance
Cultivate -- Of Men
Wiser Men may weary --
But the Man within
Never knew Satiety --
Better entertain
Than could Border Ballad --
Or Biscayan Hymn --
Neither introduction
Need You... (Read full poem)
3. Coloring Book - written by Connie Wanek
Read 1501 times on American Poems.
Each picture is heartbreakingly banal,
a kitten and a ball of yarn,
a dog and bone.
The paper is cheap, easily torn.
A coloring book's authority is derived
from its heavy black lines
as unalterable as the ten commandments
within which minor... (Read full poem)
4. An Eastern Ballad - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Collected Poems 1947-1980.
Read 12672 times on American Poems.
I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.
I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I... (Read full poem)
5. Wealth - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 5617 times on American Poems.
(For Aline)
From what old ballad, or from what rich frame
Did you descend to glorify the earth?
Was it from Chaucer's singing book you came?
Or did Watteau's small brushes give you birth?
Nothing so exquisite as that slight hand
Could... (Read full poem)
6. Sang from the Heart, Sire, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2714 times on American Poems.
Sang from the Heart, Sire,
Dipped my Beak in it,
If the Tune drip too much
Have a tint too Red
Pardon the Cochineal --
Suffer the Vermillion --
Death is the Wealth
Of the Poorest Bird.
Bear with the Ballad --
Awkward -- faltering --
Death twists... (Read full poem)
7. The Ballad Of A Bachelor - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Read 1947 times on American Poems.
Listen, ladies, while I sing
The ballad of John Henry King.
John Henry was a bachelor,
His age was thirty-three or four.
Two maids for his affection vied,
And each desired to be his bride,
And bravely did they strive to bring
Unto their feet John... (Read full poem)
8. A Western Ballad - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Collected Poems 1947-1980.
Read 11829 times on American Poems.
When I died, love, when I died
my heart was broken in your care;
I never suffered love so fair
as now I suffer and abide
when I died, love, when I died.
When I died, love, when I died
I wearied in an endless maze
that men have walked for... (Read full poem)
9. The Embrace - written by Mark Doty
From Sweet Machine.
Published in 1999.
Read 2616 times on American Poems.
You weren't well or really ill yet either;
just a little tired, your handsomeness
tinged by grief or anticipation, which brought
to your face a thoughtful, deepening grace.
I didn't for a moment doubt you were dead.
I knew that to be true still,... (Read full poem)
10. Heart, not so heavy as mine - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6730 times on American Poems.
Heart, not so heavy as mine
Wending late home --
As it passed my window
Whistled itself a tune --
A careless snatch -- a ballad -- A ditty of the street --
Yet to my irritated Ear
An Anodyne so sweet --
It was as if a Bobolink
Sauntering this... (Read full poem)
11. Coffee & Dolls - written by April Bernard
Read 2678 times on American Poems.
It was a storefront for a small-time numbers runner,
pretending to be some sort of grocery. Coffeemakers
and Bustello cans populated the shelves, sparsely.
Who was fooled. The boxes bleached in the sun,
the old guys sat inside on summer lawn... (Read full poem)
12. Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Journals Mid Fifties 1954-1958.
Published in 1955.
Read 5709 times on American Poems.
I came home and found a lion in my room...
[First draft of "The Lion for Real" CP 174-175]
A lion met America
in the road
they stared at each other
two figures on the crossroads in the desert.
America screamed
The lion roared
They leaped at each... (Read full poem)
13. Last Love - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1371 times on American Poems.
The first flower of the spring is not so fair
Or bright, as one the ripe midsummer brings.
The first faint note the forest warbler sings
Is not as rich with feeling, or so rare
As when, full master of his art, the air
Drowns in the liquid... (Read full poem)
14. Historion - written by Ezra Pound
Read 2271 times on American Poems.
No man hath dared to write this thing as yet,
And yet I know, how that the souls of all men great
At times pass athrough us,
And we are melted into them, and are not
Save reflexions of their souls.
Thus am I Dante for a space and am
One... (Read full poem)
15. Masks - written by Ezra Pound
Read 5868 times on American Poems.
These tales of old disguisings, are they not
Strange myths of souls that found themselves among
Unwonted folk that spake an hostile tongue,
Some soul from all the rest who'd not forgot
The star-span acres of a former lot
Where boundless mid... (Read full poem)
16. Ballad of Dead Friends - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 3199 times on American Poems.
As we the withered ferns
By the roadway lying,
Time, the jester, spurns
All our prayers and prying --
All our tears and sighing,
Sorrow, change, and woe --
All our where-and-whying
For friends that come and go.
Life awakes and... (Read full poem)
17. Bridal Ballad - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 8343 times on American Poems.
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he breathed his vow,
I felt my bosom swell-
For the words rang as a knell,... (Read full poem)
18. Ballade at Thirty-Five - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3629 times on American Poems.
This, no song of an ingenue,
This, no ballad of innocence;
This, the rhyme of a lady who
Followed ever her natural bents.
This, a solo of sapience,
This, a chantey of sophistry,
This, the sum of experiments,
I loved them until they loved me.
Decked... (Read full poem)
19. Ballad for Gloom - written by Ezra Pound
Read 4088 times on American Poems.
For God, our God is a gallant foe
That playeth behind the veil.
I have loved my God as a child at heart
That seeketh deep bosoms for rest,
I have loved my God as a maid to man—
But lo, this thing is best:
To love your God as a... (Read full poem)
20. Ballad by the Fire - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 618 times on American Poems.
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
The while a witless masquerade
Of things that only children see
Floats in a mist of light and shade:
They pass, a flimsy cavalcade,
And with a weak, remindful glow,
The falling embers break and fade,
As... (Read full poem)
21. Ballad of Broken Flutes - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 645 times on American Poems.
In dreams I crossed a barren land,
A land of ruin, far away;
Around me hung on every hand
A deathful stillness of decay;
And silent, as in bleak dismay
That song should thus forsaken be,
On that forgotten ground there lay
The broken... (Read full poem)
22. Ballad Of The Despairing Husband - written by Robert Creeley
Read 3329 times on American Poems.
My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I... (Read full poem)
23. Ballad of a Ship - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 629 times on American Poems.
Down by the flash of the restless water
The dim White Ship like a white bird lay;
Laughing at life and the world they sought her,
And out she swung to the silvering bay.
Then off they flew on their roystering way,
And the keen moon fired... (Read full poem)
24. The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator - written by Anne Sexton
Read 10874 times on American Poems.
The end of the affair is always death.
She's my workshop. Slippery eye,
out of the tribe of myself my breath
finds you gone. I horrify
those who stand by. I am fed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.
Finger to finger, now she's mine.
She's not... (Read full poem)
25. TO AN OLD DANISH SONG-BOOK - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems.
Read 2710 times on American Poems.
Welcome, my old friend,
Welcome to a foreign fireside,
While the sullen gales of autumn
Shake the windows.
The ungrateful world
Has, it seems, dealt harshly with thee,
Since, beneath the skies of Denmark,
First I met thee.
There are marks of... (Read full poem)
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