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The term "R Burns" has been searched for 287 times on the American Poems site since October 8th, 2005.
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1. The Lamp burns sure -- within - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1972 times on American Poems.
The Lamp burns sure -- within --
Tho' Serfs -- supply the Oil --
It matters not the busy Wick --
At her phosphoric toil!
The Slave -- forgets -- to fill --
The Lamp -- burns golden -- on --
Unconscious that the oil is out --
As that the Slave -- is... (Read full poem)
2. White Ash - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1738 times on American Poems.
THERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice.
She used to keep a houseful of girls in kimonos and three pushbuttons on the front door.
Now she is alone with a parrot and goldfish and two white mice... (Read full poem)
4. First Fig - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From A Few Figs From Thistles.
Published in 1921.
Read 5975 times on American Poems.
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light!(Read full poem)
5. Atmosphere - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 5720 times on American Poems.
Inscription for a Garden Wall
Winds blow the open grassy places bleak;
But where this old wall burns a sunny cheek,
They eddy over it too toppling weak
To blow the earth or anything self-clear;
Moisture and color and odor thicken here.
The hours of... (Read full poem)
6. One Life of so much Consequence! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3211 times on American Poems.
One Life of so much Consequence!
Yet I -- for it -- would pay --
My Soul's entire income --
In ceaseless -- salary --
One Pearl -- to me -- so signal --
That I would instant dive --
Although -- I knew -- to take it --
Would cost me -- just a... (Read full poem)
7. Love's Lantern - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 2306 times on American Poems.
(For Aline)
Because the road was steep and long
And through a dark and lonely land,
God set upon my lips a song
And put a lantern in my hand.
Through miles on weary miles of night
That stretch relentless in my way
My lantern burns serene... (Read full poem)
8. I Have Loved Hours At Sea - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 1832 times on American Poems.
I have loved hours at sea, gray cities,
The fragile secret of a flower,
Music, the making of a poem
That gave me heaven for an hour;
First stars above a snowy hill,
Voices of people kindly and wise,
And the great look of love, long hidden,
Found at... (Read full poem)
9. Rumors from an Aeolian Harp - written by Henry David Thoreau
Read 3488 times on American Poems.
There is a vale which none hath seen,
Where foot of man has never been,
Such as here lives with toil and strife,
An anxious and a sinful life.
There every virtue has its birth,
Ere it descends upon the earth,
And thither every deed... (Read full poem)
10. The Doomed -- regard the Sunrise - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3602 times on American Poems.
The Doomed -- regard the Sunrise
With different Delight --
Because -- when next it burns abroad
They doubt to witness it --
The Man -- to die -- tomorrow --
Harks for the Meadow Bird --
Because its Music stirs the Axe
That clamors for his head... (Read full poem)
11. Voltaire Johnson - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 419 times on American Poems.
Why did you bruise me with your rough places
If you did not want me to tell you about them?
And stifle me with your stupidities,
If you did not want me to expose them?
And nail me with the nails of cruelty,
If you did not want me to pluck the... (Read full poem)
12. Poppies In July - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1960.
Read 6757 times on American Poems.
Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a... (Read full poem)
13. Spicewood - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
From Spicewood.
Published in 1920.
Read 1062 times on American Poems.
The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky,
In moist unchimneyed places, in a wind,
That whips it all before, and all behind,
Into one thick, rude flame, now low, now high,
It is the first, the homeliest thing of all--
At sight of it, that lad... (Read full poem)
14. Divinely Superfluous Beauty - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 1621 times on American Poems.
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean ...
Divinely superfluous beauty
Rules the games, presides over destinies, makes trees grow
And hills tower, waves fall.
The incredible beauty of joy
Stars with fire the... (Read full poem)
15. The Altar - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 452 times on American Poems.
Alone, remote, nor witting where I went,
I found an altar builded in a dream—
A fiery place, whereof there was a gleam
So swift, so searching, and so eloquent
Of upward promise, that love’s murmur, blent
With sorrow’s warning, gave but a... (Read full poem)
16. Dream Song 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 681 times on American Poems.
Collating bones: I would have liked to do.
Henry would have been hot at that.
I missed his profession.
As a little boy I always thought
'I'm an archeologist'; who
could be more respected peaceful serious than that?
Hell talkt my brain... (Read full poem)
17. Putting in the Seed - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 7340 times on American Poems.
You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and... (Read full poem)
18. Hero-Worship - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 3767 times on American Poems.
A face seen passing in a crowded street,
A voice heard singing music, large and free;
And from that moment life is changed, and we
Become of more heroic temper, meet
To freely ask and give, a man complete
Radiant because of faith, we dare to... (Read full poem)
19. Resolve - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1956.
Read 2231 times on American Poems.
Day of mist: day of tarnish
with hands
unserviceable, I wait
for the milk van
the one-eared cat
laps its gray paw
and the coal fire burns
outside, the little hedge leaves are
become quite yellow
a milk-film blurs
the empty bottles on the... (Read full poem)
20. The Breath Of Night - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 1424 times on American Poems.
The moon rises. The red cubs rolling
In the ferns by the rotten oak
Stare over a marsh and a meadow
To the farm's white wisp of smoke.
A spark burns, high in heaven.
Deer thread the blossoming rows
Of the old orchard, rabbits
Hop by the well-curb.... (Read full poem)
21. Mark Twain and Joan of Arc - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 650 times on American Poems.
When Yankee soldiers reach the barricade
Then Joan of Arc gives each the accolade.
For she is there in armor clad, today,
All the young poets of the wide world say.
Which of our freemen did she greet the first,
Seeing him come against the... (Read full poem)
22. My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 5700 times on American Poems.
My mouth hovers across your breasts
in the short grey winter afternoon
in this bed we are delicate
and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves
tough and delicate we play rings
around each other our daytime candle burns
with its peculiar light... (Read full poem)
23. Ballad of Dead Friends - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2903 times on American Poems.
As we the withered ferns
By the roadway lying,
Time, the jester, spurns
All our prayers and prying --
All our tears and sighing,
Sorrow, change, and woe --
All our where-and-whying
For friends that come and go.
Life awakes and... (Read full poem)
24. In the footsteps of the walking air - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 577 times on American Poems.
In the footsteps of the walking air
Sky's prophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe
And hillsides lift green wings in somber journeying.
Night in his soft haste bumps on the shoulders of the abyss
And a single drop of dark blood covers the... (Read full poem)
25. The Sea's Wash In The Hollow Of The Heart... - written by Denise Levertov
Read 675 times on American Poems.
Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return
to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair
chill with disuse, where the croaking toad of time
regards from shimmering eyes your slow ascent
and the drip, drip, of darkness glimmers on the... (Read full poem)
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