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The term "P.B. SHELLEY BIOGRAPHY" has been searched for 204 times on the American Poems site since October 12th, 2005.
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1. A Pig's-Eye View of Literature - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 4224 times on American Poems.
The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of Lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And... (Read full poem)
2. When I read the Book. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 10862 times on American Poems.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man’s life?
And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life;
Why, even I myself, I... (Read full poem)
3. The Hollows round His eager Eyes - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1407 times on American Poems.
The Hollows round His eager Eyes
Were Pages where to read
Pathetic Histories -- although
Himself had not complained.
Biography to All who passed
Of Unobtrusive Pain
Except for the italic Face
Endured, unhelped -- unknown.(Read full poem)
4. I Am 25 - written by Gregory Corso
From Mindfield.
Published in 1989.
Read 2260 times on American Poems.
With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaud
and the needy-yap of my youth
has gone from ear to ear:
I HATE OLD POETMEN!
Especially old poetmen who retract
who consult other old poetmen
who speak their youth in... (Read full poem)
5. Myself - written by Robert Creeley
Read 2427 times on American Poems.
What, younger, felt
was possible, now knows
is not - but still
not chanted enough -
Walked by the sea,
unchanged in memory -
evening, as clouds
on the far-off rim
of water float,
pictures of time,
smoke, faintness -
still the dream.
I want, if... (Read full poem)
6. Percy Bysshe Shelley - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 474 times on American Poems.
My father who owned the wagon-shop
And grew rich shoeing horses
Sent me to the University of Montreal.
I learned nothing and returned home,
Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler,
Hunting quail and snipe.
At Thompson's Lake the trigger of my... (Read full poem)
7. I Held A Shelley Manuscript - written by Gregory Corso
Read 1954 times on American Poems.
My hands did numb to beauty
as they reached into Death and tightened!
O sovereign was my touch
upon the tan-inks's fragile page!
Quickly, my eyes moved quickly,
sought for smell for dust for lace
for dry hair!
I would have taken the... (Read full poem)
8. Gustav Richter - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 332 times on American Poems.
After a long day of work in my hot-houses
Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side
Your dreams may be abruptly ended.
I was among my flowers where some one
Seemed to be raising them on trial,
As if after-while to be transplanted
To... (Read full poem)
9. Biography In The First Person - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1668 times on American Poems.
This is not the way I am.
Really, I am much taller in person,
the hairline I conceal reaches back
to my grandfather, and the shyness my wife
will not believe in has always been why
I was bold on first dates. My father a crack salesman.
I've saved... (Read full poem)
10. The Art Of Drowning - written by Billy Collins
Read 6895 times on American Poems.
I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final... (Read full poem)
11. Evening Song Of Senlin - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 1645 times on American Poems.
from Senlin: A Biography
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence
I ascend my stairs once more,
While waves, remote in a pale blue starlight,
Crash on a white sand shore.
It is moonlight. The garden is silent.
I stand in my room alone.
Across... (Read full poem)
12. Candle Hat - written by Billy Collins
Read 4897 times on American Poems.
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates:
Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes,
Van Gogh stares out of a halo of swirling darkness,
Rembrant looks relieved as if he were taking a breather
from painting The Blinding of... (Read full poem)
13. Apology - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 5239 times on American Poems.
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox)
For blows on the fort of evil
That never shows a breach,
For terrible life-long races
To a goal no foot can reach,
For reckless leaps into darkness
With hands outstretched to a star,
There is jubilation in... (Read full poem)
14. Caroline Branson - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 395 times on American Poems.
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,
As often before, the April fields till star-light
Silkened over with viewless gauze the darkness
Under the cliff, our trysting place in the wood,
Where the brook turns! Had we but passed... (Read full poem)
15. Morning Song Of Senlin - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 2589 times on American Poems.
from Senlin: A Biography
It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning
When the light drips through the shutters like the dew,
I arise, I face the sunrise,
And do the things my fathers learned to do.
Stars in the purple dusk above the... (Read full poem)
16. Senlin: His Cloudy Destiny - written by Conrad Aiken
From Senlin: A Biography.
Published in 1918.
Read 1619 times on American Poems.
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Senlin sat before us and we heard him.
He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him.
Was he small, with reddish hair,
Did he light his pipe with a meditative stare
And a twinkling flame reflected in blue eyes?
'I am alone': said Senlin; 'in a... (Read full poem)
17. Those Graves In Rome - written by Larry Levis
From The Selected Levis, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Read 416 times on American Poems.
There are places where the eye can starve,
But not here. Here, for example, is
The Piazza Navona, & here is his narrow room
Overlooking the Steps & the crowds of sunbathing
Tourists. And here is the Protestant Cemetery
Where Keats &... (Read full poem)
18. Invocation To The Muses - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2051 times on American Poems.
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute
of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New York, January 18th, 1941.
Great Muse, that from this hall absent for long
Hast never been,
Great Muse of Song,
Colossal Muse of mighty... (Read full poem)
19. A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor - written by Ogden Nash
Read 5221 times on American Poems.
The hands of the clock were reaching high
In an old midtown hotel;
I name no name, but its sordid fame
Is table talk in hell.
I name no name, but hell's own flame
Illumes the lobby garish,
A gilded snare just off Times Square
For the maidens of the... (Read full poem)
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