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The term "OCTOBER GAVE A PARTY AND ALL THE LEAVES" has been searched for 175 times on the American Poems site since November 24th, 2004.
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1. The Gift - written by David Lehman
Read 3165 times on American Poems.
"He gave her class. She gave him sex."
-- Katharine Hepburn on Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
He gave her money. She gave him head.
He gave her tips on "aggressive growth" mutual funds. She gave him a red rose
and a little statue... (Read full poem)
2. October - written by Robert Frost
From A Boy's Will.
Published in 1913.
Read 28590 times on American Poems.
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this... (Read full poem)
3. Korean Mums - written by James Schuyler
From The Morning of the Poem.
Published in 1980.
Read 743 times on American Poems.
beside me in this garden
are huge and daisy-like
(why not? are not
oxeye daisies a chrysanthemum?),
shrubby and thick-stalked,
the leaves pointing up
the stems from which
the flowers burst in
sunbursts. I love
this garden in all its moods,
even... (Read full poem)
4. October - written by James Schuyler
From Hymn to Life.
Published in 1974.
Read 532 times on American Poems.
Books litter the bed,
leaves the lawn. It
lightly rains. Fall has
come: unpatterned, in
the shedding leaves.
The maples ripen. Apples
come home crisp in bags.
This pear tastes good.
It rains lightly on the
random leaf patterns.
The nimbus is... (Read full poem)
5. And This Will be All? - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1871 times on American Poems.
AND this will be all?
And the gates will never open again?
And the dust and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songs of October moan, Why-oh, why-oh?
And you will look to the mountains
And the mountains will look to you
And... (Read full poem)
6. When The Year Grows Old - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2852 times on American Poems.
I cannot but remember
When the year grows old—
October—November—
How she disliked the cold!
She used to watch the swallows
Go down across the sky,
And turn from the window
With a little sharp sigh.
And often when the... (Read full poem)
7. Hildrup Tubbs - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 428 times on American Poems.
I made two fights for the people.
First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon
Of independence, for reform, and was defeated.
Next I used my rebel strength
To capture the standard of my old party --
And I captured it, but I was... (Read full poem)
8. John Cabanis - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 410 times on American Poems.
Neither spite, fellow citizens,
Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness,
And the lawlessness and waste
Under democracy's rule in Spoon River
Made me desert the party of law and order
And lead the liberal party.
Fellow citizens! I saw as one... (Read full poem)
9. I Hear America Singing. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 20766 times on American Poems.
I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear;
Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or... (Read full poem)
10. On a Theme by Frost - written by Robert Francis
Read 509 times on American Poems.
Amherst never had a witch
O Coos or of Grafton
But once upon a time
There were three old women.
One wore a small beard
And carried a big umbrella.
One stood in the middle
Of the road hailing cars.
One drove an old cart
All over the... (Read full poem)
11. Ossawatomie - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1485 times on American Poems.
I DON’T know how he came,
shambling, dark, and strong.
He stood in the city and told men:
My people are fools, my people are young and strong, my people must learn, my people are terrible workers and fighters.
Always he kept on asking: Where... (Read full poem)
12. Donner Party - written by Richard Brautigan
Published in 1950.
Read 3033 times on American Poems.
Forsaken, fucking in the cold,
eating each other, lost
runny noses,
complaining all the time
like so many
people
that we know(Read full poem)
13. Leaves Compared With Flowers - written by Robert Frost
From A Further Range.
Published in 1936.
Read 9343 times on American Poems.
A tree's leaves may be ever so good,
So may its bar, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root
It never will show much flower or fruit.
But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
Leaves for smooth and... (Read full poem)
14. Zilpha Marsh - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 416 times on American Poems.
At four o'clock in late October
I sat alone in the country school-house
Back from the road 'mid stricken fields,
And an eddy of wind blew leaves on the pane,
And crooned in the flue of the cannon-stove,
With its open door blurring the... (Read full poem)
15. There are two Ripenings -- one -- of sight - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1676 times on American Poems.
There are two Ripenings -- one -- of sight --
Whose forces Spheric wind
Until the Velvet product
Drop spicy to the ground --
A homelier maturing --
A process in the Bur --
That teeth of Frosts alone disclose
In far October Air.(Read full poem)
16. Smart - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 9906 times on American Poems.
My dad gave me one dollar bill
'Cause I'm his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
'Cause two is more than one!
And then i took the quarters
And traded them to Lou
For three dimes-i guess he don't know
that three is... (Read full poem)
17. O Tan-faced Prairie Boy. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2028 times on American Poems.
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food—till at last, among the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look’d on each other,... (Read full poem)
18. October - written by Ellis Parker Butler
Read 548 times on American Poems.
The forest holds high carnival to-day,
And every hill-side glows with gold and fire;
Ivy and sumac dress in colors gay,
And oak and maple mask in bright attire.
The hoarded wealth of sober autumn days
In lavish mood for motley garb is... (Read full poem)
19. Llewellyn and the Tree - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 441 times on American Poems.
Could he have made Priscilla share
The paradise that he had planned,
Llewellyn would have loved his wife
As well as any in the land.
Could he have made Priscilla cease
To goad him for what God left out,
Llewellyn would have been as mild... (Read full poem)
20. What did They do since I saw Them? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1517 times on American Poems.
What did They do since I saw Them?
Were They industrious?
So many questions to put Them
Have I the eagerness
That could I snatch Their Faces
That could Their lips reply
Not till the last was answered
Should They start for the Sky.
Not if Their... (Read full poem)
21. Poppies In October - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 5780 times on American Poems.
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly ----
A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky
Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon... (Read full poem)
22. Summer has two Beginnings -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2027 times on American Poems.
Summer has two Beginnings --
Beginning once in June --
Beginning in October
Affectingly again --
Without, perhaps, the Riot
But graphicker for Grace --
As finer is a going
Than a remaining Face --
Departing then -- forever --
Forever -- until May... (Read full poem)
23. Is Heaven a Physician? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1693 times on American Poems.
Is Heaven a Physician?
They say that He can heal --
But Medicine Posthumous
Is unavailable --
Is Heaven an Exchequer?
They speak of what we owe --
But that negotiation
I'm not a Party to --(Read full poem)
24. Ribbons of the Year -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1475 times on American Poems.
Ribbons of the Year --
Multitude Brocade --
Worn to Nature's Party once
Then, as flung aside
As a faded Bead
Or a Wrinkled Pearl
Who shall charge the Vanity
Of the Maker's Girl?(Read full poem)
25. The immortality she gave - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1443 times on American Poems.
The immortality she gave
We borrowed at her Grave --
For just one Plaudit famishing,
The Might of Human love --(Read full poem)
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