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The term "Paine, Thomas" has been searched for 52 times on the American Poems site since November 9th, 2004.
Search Results: 5 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib - written by Ogden Nash
Read 1904 times on American Poems.
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The Child Is Father Of The Man, But Not For Quite A While
So Thomas Edison
Never drank his medicine;
So Blackstone and Hoyle
Refused cod-liver oil;
So Sir Thomas Malory
Never heard of a calory;
So the Earl of Lennox
Murdered Rizzio without the... (Read full poem)
2. The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Iowa City Citizen.
Published in 1903.
Read 255 times on American Poems.
Comrades, many a year and day
Have fled since that glorious 9th of May
When we made the charge at Farmington.
But until our days on earth are done
Our blood will burn and our hearts beat fast
As we tell of the glorious... (Read full poem)
3. Thomas Carlyle - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 1510 times on American Poems.
Carlyle combined the lit'ry life
With throwing teacups at his wife,
Remarking, rather testily,
"Oh, stop your dodging, Mrs. C.!"(Read full poem)
4. Hamilton Greene - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 691 times on American Poems.
I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia
And Thomas Greene of Kentucky,
Of valiant and honorable blood both.
To them I owe all that I became,
Judge, member of Congress, leader in the State.
From my mother I inherited
Vivacity, fancy,... (Read full poem)
5. Elmer Karr - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 435 times on American Poems.
What but the love of God could have softened
And made forgiving the people of Spoon River
Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt
And murdered him beside?
Oh, loving hearts that took me in again
When I returned from fourteen years in... (Read full poem)
6. Mrs. George Reece - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 583 times on American Poems.
To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
It may serve a turn in your life.
My husband had nothing to do
With the fall of the bank -- he was only cashier.
The wreck was due to the president, Thomas... (Read full poem)
7. Thomas Rhodes - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 522 times on American Poems.
Very well, you liberals,
And navigators into realms intellectual,
You sailors through heights imaginative,
Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets,
You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits,
And Tennessee Claflin Shopes --
You... (Read full poem)
8. Trust in the Unexpected -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4899 times on American Poems.
Trust in the Unexpected --
By this -- was William Kidd
Persuaded of the Buried Gold --
As One had testified --
Through this -- the old Philosopher --
His Talismanic Stone
Discerned -- still withholden
To effort undivine --
'Twas this -- allured... (Read full poem)
9. Split the Lark -- and you'll find the Music -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2054 times on American Poems.
Split the Lark -- and you'll find the Music --
Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled --
Scantilly dealt to the Summer Morning
Saved for your Ear when Lutes be old.
Loose the Flood -- you shall find it patent --
Gush after Gush, reserved for you... (Read full poem)
10. Thomas Hood - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2230 times on American Poems.
The man who cloaked his bitterness within
This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries,
God never gave to look with common eyes
Upon a world of anguish and of sin:
His brother was the branded man of Lynn;
And there are woven with his jollities
The... (Read full poem)
11. The Negatives - written by Philip Levine
From On The Edge.
Published in 1963.
Read 562 times on American Poems.
On March 1, 1958, four deserters from the French Army of North Africa,
August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jack Dauville, & Thomas Delain, robbed a
government pay station at Orleansville. Because of the subsequent
confession of Dauville the other... (Read full poem)
13. Jack McGuire - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 425 times on American Poems.
They would have lynched me
Had I not been secretly hurried away
To the jail at Peoria.
And yet I was going peacefully home,
Carrying my jug, a little drunk,
When Logan, the marshal, halted me,
Called me a drunken hound and shook me,
And, when... (Read full poem)
14. Judge Selah Lively - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 423 times on American Poems.
Suppose you stood just five feet two,
And had worked your way as a grocery clerk,
Studying law by candle light
Until you became an attorney at law?
And then suppose through your diligence,
And regular church attendance,
You became attorney for... (Read full poem)
15. Hildrup Tubbs - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 394 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)
16. Dream Song 22: Of 1826 - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 1888 times on American Poems.
I am the little man who smokes & smokes.
I am the girl who does know better but.
I am the king of the pool.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.
I am a government official & a goddamned fool.
I am a lady who takes jokes.
I am the enemy of... (Read full poem)
17. Barry Holden - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 609 times on American Poems.
The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp
Set fire to the house
They were trying Dr. Duval
For the murder of Zora Clemens,
And I sat in the court two weeks
Listening to every witness.
It was clear he had got her in a family way;
And to let the... (Read full poem)
18. E.C. Culbertson - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 308 times on American Poems.
Is it true, Spoon River,
That in the hall-way of the New Court House
There is a tablet of bronze
Containing the embossed faces
Of Editor Whedon and Thomas Rhodes?
And is it true that my successful labors
In the County Board, without which
Not... (Read full poem)
19. Ida Chicken - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 457 times on American Poems.
After I had attended lectures
At our Chautauqua, and studied French
For twenty years, committing the grammar
Almost by heart,
I thought I'd take a trip to Paris
To give my culture a final polish.
So I went to Peoria for a passport --
(Thomas... (Read full poem)
20. Elsa Wertman - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 748 times on American Poems.
I was a peasant girl from Germany,
Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.
And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's.
On a summer's day when she was away
He stole into the kitchen and took me
Right in his arms and kissed me on my... (Read full poem)
21. Thomas Ross, Jr. - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 517 times on American Poems.
This I saw with my own eyes:
A cliff-swallow
Made her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank
There near Miller's Ford.
But no sooner were the young hatched
Than a snake crawled up to the nest
To devour the brood.
Then the mother swallow with... (Read full poem)
22. On a Theme by Thomas Merton - written by Denise Levertov
Read 687 times on American Poems.
"Adam, where are you?"
God's hands
palpate darkness, the void
that is Adam's inattention,
his confused attention to everything,
impassioned by multiplicity, his despair.
Multiplicity, his despair;
God's... (Read full poem)
23. Jeduthan Hawley - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 346 times on American Poems.
There would be a knock at the door
And I would arise at midnight and go to the shop,
Where belated travelers would hear me hammering
Sepulchral boards and tacking satin.
And often I wondered who would go with me
To the distant land, our names... (Read full poem)
24. Sersmith the Dentist - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 654 times on American Poems.
Do you think that odes and sermons,
And the ringing of church bells,
And the blood of old men and young men,
Martyred for the truth they saw
With eyes made bright by faith in God,
Accomplished the world's great reformations?
Do you think that... (Read full poem)
25. Kinsey Keene - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 403 times on American Poems.
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank;
Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus;
Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading church;
A.D. Blood, several times Mayor of Spoon River;
And finally all of you, members of the Social Purity... (Read full poem)
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