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The term "O beautiful" has been searched for 2 times on the American Poems site since February 21st, 2008.
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1. Proud and Beautiful - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2849 times on American Poems.
AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call proud and beautiful,
After the shops and fingers have worn out all they have and know and can hope to... (Read full poem)
2. The Beautiful Changes - written by Richard Wilbur
From The Beautiful Changes.
Published in 1947.
Read 4812 times on American Poems.
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides
The Queen Anne's Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of
you
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.
The beautiful... (Read full poem)
3. Sleep Waltz - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 656 times on American Poems.
for MCW
Get old enough so you won't have much to fear.
By then, the music plays inside your head
and everything beautiful must be learned by ear.
In the bathroom mirror I behold my wear and tear.
In our bedroom I try to levitate in... (Read full poem)
4. Whats The Use Of A Title? - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2168 times on American Poems.
They dont make it
the beautiful die in flame-
sucide pills,rat poison,rope what-
ever...
they rip their arms off,
throw themselves out of windows,
they pull their eyes out of the sockets,
reject love
reject hate
reject,reject.
they do'nt... (Read full poem)
5. The Beautiful Poem - written by Richard Brautigan
Published in 1950.
Read 4661 times on American Poems.
I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.
Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.
Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.
3 A.M.
January 15, 1967(Read full poem)
6. Monotone - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2978 times on American Poems.
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
A face I know is... (Read full poem)
7. Autumn Movement - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2282 times on American Poems.
I CRIED over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full... (Read full poem)
8. Beautiful Women. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 11037 times on American Poems.
WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young;
The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.(Read full poem)
9. Tame Cat - written by Ezra Pound
Read 3619 times on American Poems.
It rests me to be among beautiful women
Why should one always lie about such matters?
I repeat:
It rests me to converse with beautiful women
Even though we talk nothing but nonsense,
The purring of the invisible antennae
Is both stimulating... (Read full poem)
10. Nightclub - written by Billy Collins
Read 7523 times on American Poems.
You are so beautiful and I am a fool
to be in love with you
is a theme that keeps coming up
in songs and poems.
There seems to be no room for variation.
I have never heard anyone sing
I am so beautiful
and you are a fool to be in love with me,
even... (Read full poem)
11. Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 898 times on American Poems.
The first and last time I met
my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at
a protest poetry reading against
some anti-constitutional war in Asia
when some academic son of a bitch,
to test her reputation as a drunk,
gave her a beer glass full of wine
after our... (Read full poem)
12. When The Year Grows Old - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2781 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)
13. Under the Harvest Moon - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Read 5330 times on American Poems.
Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.
Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in... (Read full poem)
14. Reconciliation. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4893 times on American Poems.
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever
again,
this
soil’d world:
...... (Read full poem)
15. The Samantha Sonnets #2 - written by Stanley Gemmell
Read 319 times on American Poems.
--after Emmanuel Hocquard
Samantha is
Samantha
Is my most beautiful, stolen poem
(Stolen from The Druids
who in turn had stolen
from The Greeks
who in turn had stolen
gods from Aegypt-
words from the god
of all things... (Read full poem)
16. The Samantha Sonnets #4 - written by Stanley Gemmell
Read 271 times on American Poems.
--after Emmanuel Hocquard
Samantha is
Samantha
Is my most beautiful, stolen poem
(Stolen the way storm-clouds steal
light - Who in the world
dark and stolen - Stand stones
in solemn circles
for the solstice-
stones from the god
of... (Read full poem)
17. Music I Heard - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 4606 times on American Poems.
Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen... (Read full poem)
18. Poem in praise of menstruation - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 2102 times on American Poems.
if there is a river
more beautiful than this
bright as the blood
red edge of the moon if
there is a river
more faithful than this
returning each month
to the same delta if there
is a river
braver than this
coming and coming in a... (Read full poem)
19. The Beautiful American Word, Sure - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1138 times on American Poems.
The beautiful American word, Sure,
As I have come into a room, and touch
The lamp's button, and the light blooms with such
Certainty where the darkness loomed before,
As I care for what I do not know, and care
Knowing for little she might not have... (Read full poem)
20. The Retreat - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1654 times on American Poems.
this time has finished me.
I feel like the German troops
whipped by snow and the communists
walking bent
with newspapers stuffed into
worn boots.
my plight is just as terrible.
maybe more so.
victory was so close
victory was there.
as she stood... (Read full poem)
21. Broken Tabernacles - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1185 times on American Poems.
HAVE I broken the smaller tabernacles, O Lord?
And in the destruction of these set up the greater and massive, the everlasting tabernacles?
I know nothing today, what I have done and why, O Lord, only I have broken and broken tabernacles.
They were... (Read full poem)
22. To Dorothy - written by Marvin Bell
Read 1821 times on American Poems.
You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let a weed grow by the mulberry
And a mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
Of a windy night, it brushes the wall
And sweeps away the day till we sleep.
A child... (Read full poem)
23. Never Again The Same - written by James Tate
Read 6828 times on American Poems.
Speaking of sunsets,
last night's was shocking.
I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are they?
Well, this one was terrifying.
Sure, it was beautiful, but far too beautiful.
It wasn't natural.
One climax followed another and then... (Read full poem)
24. Carmel Point - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 1620 times on American Poems.
The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses... (Read full poem)
25. The Fury Of Guitars And Sopranos - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 2102 times on American Poems.
This singing
is a kind of dying,
a kind of birth,
a votive candle.
I have a dream-mother
who sings with her guitar,
nursing the bedroom
with a moonlight and beautiful olives.
A flute came too,
joining the five strings,
a God finger over... (Read full poem)
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