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The term "R is for ribbon" has been searched for 339 times on the American Poems site since February 2nd, 2005.
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1. To die -- takes just a little while - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4909 times on American Poems.
To die -- takes just a little while --
They say it doesn't hurt --
It's only fainter -- by degrees --
And then -- it's out of sight --
A darker Ribbon -- for a Day --
A Crape upon the Hat --
And then the pretty sunshine comes --
And helps us to... (Read full poem)
2. Black Stone On Top Of Nothing - written by Philip Levine
Read 589 times on American Poems.
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon
around the apartment building covering the front door.
He puts down his cane, removes his greasy fedora, and begins
to untangle the mess. His neighbors line up behind him... (Read full poem)
3. Summer laid her simple Hat - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2404 times on American Poems.
Summer laid her simple Hat
On its boundless Shelf --
Unobserved -- a Ribbon slipt,
Snatch it for yourself.
Summer laid her supple Glove
In its sylvan Drawer --
Wheresoe'er, or was she --
The demand of Awe?(Read full poem)
4. I'll tell you how the Sun rose - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6310 times on American Poems.
I'll tell you how the Sun rose --
A Ribbon at a time --
The Steeples swam in Amethyst --
The news, like Squirrels, ran --
The Hills untied their Bonnets --
The Bobolinks -- begun --
Then I said softly to myself --
"That must have been the Sun"!
But... (Read full poem)
5. The Penitent - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From A Few Figs From Thistles.
Published in 1921.
Read 1314 times on American Poems.
I had a little Sorrow,
Born of a little Sin,
I found a room all damp with gloom
And shut us all within;
And, "Little Sorrow, weep," said I,
"And, Little Sin, pray God to die,
And I upon the floor will lie
And think how bad I've been!"
Alas for... (Read full poem)
6. The Penitent - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 1233 times on American Poems.
I had a little Sorrow,
Born of a little Sin,
I found a room all damp with gloom
And shut us all within;
And, "Little Sorrow, weep," said I,
"And, Little Sin, pray God to die,
And I upon the floor will lie
And think how bad I've been!"
Alas for... (Read full poem)
7. I Remember - written by Anne Sexton
Read 8185 times on American Poems.
By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color--no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June and there were times
we forgot to wind... (Read full poem)
8. Paths - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3633 times on American Poems.
I shall tread, another year,
Ways I walked with Grief,
Past the dry, ungarnered ear
And the brittle leaf.
I shall stand, a year apart,
Wondering, and shy,
Thinking, "Here she broke her heart;
Here she pled to die."
I shall hear the pheasants... (Read full poem)
9. A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 935 times on American Poems.
To be intoned, all but the two italicized lines, which are to be spoken in a snappy, matter-of-fact way.
Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong.
Here lies a kitten good, who kept
A kitten's proper place.
He stole no pantry eatables,
Nor scratched... (Read full poem)
10. Ballade of a Talked-off Ear - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 3921 times on American Poems.
Daily I listen to wonder and woe,
Nightly I hearken to knave or to ace,
Telling me stories of lava and snow,
Delicate fables of ribbon and lace,
Tales of the quarry, the kill, the chase,
Longer than heaven and duller than hell-
Never you blame me,... (Read full poem)
11. Ape - written by Russell Edson
Published in 1976.
Read 3186 times on American Poems.
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father,
who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers.
I've had enough monkey, cried father.
You didn't eat the hands, and I went to all the
trouble to make onion rings for its fingers, said... (Read full poem)
12. A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 4627 times on American Poems.
I LOOK on the specious electrical light
Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white,
Wickedly red or malignantly green
Like the beads of a young Senegambian queen.
Showing, while millions of souls hurry on,
The virtues of collars, from sunset till... (Read full poem)
13. The Gamblers - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 463 times on American Poems.
Life's a jail where men have common lot.
Gaunt the one who has, and who has not.
All our treasures neither less nor more,
Bread alone comes thro' the guarded door.
Cards are foolish in this jail, I think,
Yet they play for shoes, for... (Read full poem)
14. The Sash - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1279 times on American Poems.
The first ones were attached to my dress
at the waist, one on either side,
right at the point where hands could clasp you and
pick you up, as if you were a hot
squeeze bottle of tree syrup, and the
sashes that emerged like axil buds from... (Read full poem)
15. Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal - written by e.e. cummings
Read 9075 times on American Poems.
take it from me kiddo
believe me
my country, 'tis of
you, land of the Cluett
Shirt Boston Garter and Spearmint
Girl With The Wrigley Eyes (of you
land of the Arrow Ide
and Earl &
Wilson
Collars) of you i
sing:land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E.... (Read full poem)
16. A Hill - written by Anthony Hecht
From The Hard Hours.
Published in 1967.
Read 1074 times on American Poems.
In Italy, where this sort of thing can occur,
I had a vision once - though you understand
It was nothing at all like Dante's, or the visions of saints,
And perhaps not a vision at all. I was with some friends,
Picking my way through a warm sunlit... (Read full poem)
17. For My Lover, Returning To His Wife - written by Anne Sexton
Read 11214 times on American Poems.
She is all there.
She was melted carefully down for you
and cast up from your childhood,
cast up from your one hundred favorite aggies.
She has always been there, my darling.
She is, in fact, exquisite.
Fireworks in the dull middle of February... (Read full poem)
18. Sow - written by Sylvia Plath
Read 7167 times on American Poems.
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed
His great sow:
Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid
In the same way
He kept the sow--impounded from public stare,
Prize ribbon and pig show.
But one dusk our questions commended us to a... (Read full poem)
19. Over The Alley - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 326 times on American Poems.
Here in my office I sit and write
Hour on hour, and day on day,
With no one to speak to from morn till night,
Though I have a neighbour just over the way.
Across the alley that yawns between
A maiden sits sewing the whole day long;
A face... (Read full poem)
20. The House Of Dust: Part 04: 01: Clairvoyant - written by Conrad Aiken
From The House of Dust.
Published in 1917.
Read 926 times on American Poems.
'This envelope you say has something in it
Which once belonged to your dead son—or something
He knew, was fond of? Something he remembers?—
The soul flies far, and we can only call it
By things like these . . . a photograph, a... (Read full poem)
21. That Day - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4240 times on American Poems.
This is the desk I sit at
and this is the desk where I love you too much
and this is the typewriter that sits before me
where yesterday only your body sat before me
with its shoulders gathered in like a Greek chorus,
with its tongue like a king... (Read full poem)
22. Memories of West Street and Lepke - written by Robert Lowell
From Selected Poems.
Published in 1976.
Read 5731 times on American Poems.
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming
in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning,
I hog a whole house on Boston's
"hardly passionate Marlborough Street,"
where even the man
scavenging filth in the back alley trash cans,
has two... (Read full poem)
23. The Interrogation Of The Man Of Many Hearts - written by Anne Sexton
Read 1998 times on American Poems.
Who's she, that one in your arms?
She's the one I carried my bones to
and built a house that was just a cot
and built a life that was over an hour
and built a castle where no one lives
and built, in the end, a song
to go with the ceremony.
Why... (Read full poem)
24. Variations of Greek Themes - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 561 times on American Poems.
I
A HAPPY MAN
(Carphyllides)
When these graven lines you see,
Traveler, do not pity me;
Though I be among the dead,
Let no mournful word be said.
Children that I leave behind,
And their children, all were kind;
Near to them and to... (Read full poem)
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