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1. Blacklisted - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 3527 times on American Poems.
WHY shall I keep the old name?
What is a name anywhere anyway?
A name is a cheap thing all fathers and mothers leave
each child:
A job is a job and I want to live, so
Why does God Almighty or anybody else care whether
I take a new name to go by?(Read full poem)
2. Ave Maria - written by Frank O\'Hara
Read 4132 times on American Poems.
Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies
get them out of the house so they won't
know what you're up to
it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by... (Read full poem)
3. Always Unsuitable - written by Marge Piercy
Read 1308 times on American Poems.
She wore little teeth of pearls around her neck.
They were grinning politely and evenly at me.
Unsuitable they smirked. It is true
I look a stuffed turkey in a suit. Breasts
too big for the silhouette. She knew
at once that we had sex, lots... (Read full poem)
4. Sonnet 04: Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 1560 times on American Poems.
Not in this chamber only at my birth—
When the long hours of that mysterious night
Were over, and the morning was in sight—
I cried, but in strange places, steppe and firth
I have not seen, through alien grief and mirth;
And never... (Read full poem)
5. Housewife - written by Anne Sexton
Read 11775 times on American Poems.
Some women marry houses.
It's another kind of skin; it has a heart,
a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
The walls are permanent and pink.
See how she sits on her knees all day,
faithfully washing herself down.
Men enter by force, drawn back like... (Read full poem)
6. A Penitent Considers Another Coming Of Mary - written by Gwendolyn Brooks
Read 3267 times on American Poems.
For Reverend Theodore Richardson
If Mary came would Mary
Forgive, as Mothers may,
And sad and second Saviour
Furnish us today?
She would not shake her head and leave
This military air,
But ratify a modern hay,
And put her Baby there.... (Read full poem)
7. Masses - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 4572 times on American Poems.
AMONG the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze and
red crag and was amazed;
On the beach where the long push under the endless tide
maneuvers, I stood silent;
Under the stars on the prairie watching the Dipper slant
over the horizon's grass, I was... (Read full poem)
8. who sharpens every dull... (26) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 5032 times on American Poems.
who sharpens every dull
here comes the only man
reminding with his bell
to disappear a sun
and out of houses pour
maids mothers widows wives
bringing this visitor
their very oldest lives
one pays him with a smile
another with a tear
some... (Read full poem)
9. Fault - written by Ronald Koertge
From Geography of the Forehead.
Published in 2000.
Read 486 times on American Poems.
In the airport bar, I tell my mother not to worry.
No one ever tripped and fell into the San Andreas
Fault. But as she dabs at her dry eyes, I remember
those old movies where the earth does open.
There's always one blonde entomologist,... (Read full poem)
10. Last Words - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1961.
Read 6387 times on American Poems.
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already -- the pale,... (Read full poem)
11. With All Thy Gifts. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3035 times on American Poems.
WITH all thy gifts, America,
(Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,)
Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—With these, and like of these, vouchsafed
to
thee,
What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human... (Read full poem)
12. A Curse for Kings - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 738 times on American Poems.
A curse upon each king who leads his state,
No matter what his plea, to this foul game,
And may it end his wicked dynasty,
And may he die in exile and black shame.
If there is vengeance in the Heaven of Heavens,
What punishment could Heaven... (Read full poem)
13. Invisible Work - written by Alison Luterman
From The Largest Possible Life.
Published in 2001.
Read 1829 times on American Poems.
Because no one could ever praise me enough,
because I don't mean these poems only
but the unseen
unbelievable effort it takes to live
the life that goes on between them,
I think all the time about invisible work.
About the young mother on Welfare
I... (Read full poem)
14. Indications, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4639 times on American Poems.
THE indications, and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts;
What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their
words;
The... (Read full poem)
15. Mrs. Williams - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 611 times on American Poems.
I was the milliner
Talked about, lied about,
Mother of Dora,
Whose strange disappearance
Was charged to her rearing.
My eye quick to beauty
Saw much beside ribbons
And buckles and feathers
And leghorns and felts,
To set off sweet... (Read full poem)
16. The Routine Things Around The House - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 2124 times on American Poems.
When Mother died
I thought: now I'll have a death poem.
That was unforgivable.
Yet I've since forgiven myself
as sons are able to do
who've been loved by their mothers.
I stared into the coffin
knowing how long she'd live,
how many lifetimes there... (Read full poem)
17. Prayer for a New Mother - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 7581 times on American Poems.
The things she knew, let her forget again-
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men
Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.
Let her have laughter with her little one;
Teach her the endless, tuneless... (Read full poem)
18. Government - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 4003 times on American Poems.
THE Government--I heard about the Government and
I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at
it when I saw it.
Then I saw a policeman dragging a drunken man to
the callaboose. It was the Government in action.
I saw a ward alderman slip... (Read full poem)
19. The Unpardonable Sin - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 832 times on American Poems.
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: —
To speak of bloody power as right divine,
And call on God to guard each vile chief's house,
And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine:—
To go forth killing in White Mercy's name,
Making the... (Read full poem)
20. Sex Without Love - written by Sharon Olds
From The Riverside Anthology of Literature.
Published in 1985.
Read 4582 times on American Poems.
How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are... (Read full poem)
21. Hamlet Off-Stage: Hambeau Heartbroke Horny - written by D.C. Berry
Read 623 times on American Poems.
Ophelia claims we're dead and gives me back
all my Frank Zappa and the Mothers albums.
I nearly claw out of my shell and say,
"You can't," but for a moment I've nothing
to quote. I'm rot, mortis of broken heart.
Hog wash! Lovers don't... (Read full poem)
22. The White Lights - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Published in 1906.
Read 405 times on American Poems.
When in from Delos came the gold
That held the dream of Pericles,
When first Athenian ears were told
The tumult of Euripides,
When men met Aristophanes,
Who fledged them with immortal quills—
Here, where the time knew none of these,... (Read full poem)
23. Sweet Briars of the Stairways - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 984 times on American Poems.
We are happy all the time
Even when we fight:
Sweet briars of the stairways,
Gay fairies of the grime;
We, who are playing to-night.
"Our feet are in the gutters,
Our eyes are sore with dust,
But still our eyes are bright.
The wide... (Read full poem)
24. The Earth Falls Down - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2850 times on American Poems.
If I could blame it all on the weather,
the snow like the cadaver's table,
the trees turned into knitting needles,
the ground as hard as a frozen haddock,
the pond wearing its mustache of frost.
If I could blame conditions on that,
if I could blame... (Read full poem)
25. They All Want to Play Hamlet - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3348 times on American Poems.
THEY all want to play Hamlet.
They have not exactly seen their fathers killed
Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill,
Nor an Ophelia dying with a dust gagging the heart,
Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders,
Not exactly this... (Read full poem)
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