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The term "W H Auden funeral blues" has been searched for 1315 times on the American Poems site since June 6th, 2005.
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1. The Blues - written by Langston Hughes
From The Langston Huges Reader.
Read 23533 times on American Poems.
When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry-
That's the blues.
When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!(Read full poem)
2. The Weary Blues - written by Langston Hughes
Read 35720 times on American Poems.
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway . . .
He did a lazy sway . . .
To... (Read full poem)
3. Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2992 times on American Poems.
IT’S a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes
The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts.
The banjo tickles and titters too awful.
The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
Ship... (Read full poem)
4. Blue Winter - written by Robert Francis
Read 1050 times on American Poems.
Winter uses all the blues there are.
One shade of blue for water, one for ice,
Another blue for shadows over snow.
The clear or cloudy sky uses blue twice-
Both different blues. And hills row after row
Are colored blue according to how... (Read full poem)
5. Night Funeral In Harlem - written by Langston Hughes
Read 27648 times on American Poems.
Night funeral
In Harlem:
Where did they get
Them two fine cars?
Insurance man, he did not pay--
His insurance lapsed the other day--
Yet they got a satin box
for his head to lay.
Night funeral
In Harlem:
Who was it... (Read full poem)
6. I'm A Fool To Love You - written by Cornelius Eady
From The Autobiography of a Jukebox.
Published in 1997.
Read 2539 times on American Poems.
Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,
Some type of supernatural creature.
My mother would tell you, if she could,
About her life with my father,
A strange and sometimes cruel gentleman.
She would tell you about the choices
A young black... (Read full poem)
7. Diagnosis - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 1042 times on American Poems.
for David Lehman
I woke up this morning feeling
incredibly Gorky. So I made an appointment
to see my Doctorow. He said my Hemingways
looked a little swollen and sent me to
get an M.R. James and a complete Shakespeare.
By that time, I began... (Read full poem)
8. AFTERNOON IN FEBRUARY - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems.
Read 5553 times on American Poems.
The day is ending,
The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
Through clouds like ashes
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red.
The snow recommences;
The buried fences
Mark no longer
The road o'er the... (Read full poem)
9. Father Death Blues (Don't Grow Old, Part V) - written by Allen Ginsberg
Published in 1976.
Read 8163 times on American Poems.
Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going
Father Death, Don't cry any more
Mama's there, underneath the floor
Brother Death, please mind the store
Old Aunty Death Don't hide your... (Read full poem)
10. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 20280 times on American Poems.
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading -- treading -- till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through --
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum --
Kept beating -- beating -- till I thought
My Mind was... (Read full poem)
11. The Blues - written by William Matthews
Read 666 times on American Poems.
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet
and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons?
I had pieces to learn by heart, but at twelve
you think the heart and memory are different.
"'It's a poor sort of memory that only works
backwards,' the... (Read full poem)
12. Another Day - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2713 times on American Poems.
having the low down blues and going
into a restraunt to eat.
you sit at a table.
the waitress smiles at you.
she's dumpy. her ass is too big.
she radiates kindess and symphaty.
live with her 3 months and a man would no real agony.
o.k., you'll tip... (Read full poem)
13. A Poem For Myself - written by Etheridge Knight
Read 2563 times on American Poems.
(or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)
I was born in Mississippi;
I walked barefooted thru the mud.
Born black in Mississippi,
Walked barefooted thru the mud.
But, when I reached the age of twelve
I left that place for good.
My daddy... (Read full poem)
14. Meditation By The Stove - written by Linda Pastan
From Carnival Evening.
Published in 1998.
Read 920 times on American Poems.
I have banked the fires
of my body
into a small but steady blaze
here in the kitchen
where the dough has a life of its own,
breathing under its damp cloth
like a sleeping child;
where the real child plays under the table,
pretending the tablecloth... (Read full poem)
15. Rain - written by Jack Gilbert
From Views of Jeopardy.
Published in 1962.
Read 2677 times on American Poems.
Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.
I... (Read full poem)
16. Alone - written by Maya Angelou
Read 27441 times on American Poems.
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all... (Read full poem)
17. Implosions - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 4452 times on American Poems.
The world's
not wanton
only wild and wavering
I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by
Take the word
of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
your dark scribbled flags
but take
my... (Read full poem)
18. Swing Shift Blues - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 540 times on American Poems.
What is better than leaving a bar
in the middle of the afternoon
besides staying in it or not
having gone into it in the first place
because you had a decent woman to be with?
The air smells particularly fresh
after the stale beer and piss... (Read full poem)
19. Somebody - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 5738 times on American Poems.
god I got the sad blue blues,
this woman sat there and she
said
are you really Charles
Bukowski?
and I said
forget that
I do not feel good
I've got the sad sads
all I want to do is
fuck you
and she... (Read full poem)
20. Aftermath - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 2159 times on American Poems.
I learnt to write to you in happier days,
And every letter was a piece I chipped
From off my heart, a fragment newly clipped
From the mosaic of life; its blues and grays,
Its throbbing reds, I gave to earn your praise.
To make a pavement for... (Read full poem)
21. Grace - written by Forrest Hamer
Read 1407 times on American Poems.
This air is flooded with her. I am a boy again, and my mother
and I lie on wet grass, laughing. She startles, turns to
marigolds at my side, saying beautiful, and I can see the red
there is in them.
When she would fall into her thoughts,... (Read full poem)
22. Upon Concluded Lives - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2292 times on American Poems.
Upon Concluded Lives
There's nothing cooler falls --
Than Life's sweet Calculations --
The mixing Bells and Palls --
Make Lacerating Tune --
To Ears the Dying Side --
'Tis Coronal -- and Funeral --
Saluting -- in the Road --(Read full poem)
23. Vaudeville Dancer - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1361 times on American Poems.
ELSIE FLIMMERWON, you got a job now with a jazz outfit in vaudeville.
The houses go wild when you finish the act shimmying a fast shimmy to The Livery Stable Blues.
It is long ago, Elsie Flimmerwon, I saw your mother over a washtub in a grape... (Read full poem)
25. 'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2511 times on American Poems.
'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief --
To re-endure a Day --
We thought the Mighty Funeral --
Of All Conceived Joy --
To recollect how Busy Grass
Did meddle -- one by one --
Till all the Grief with Summer -- waved
And none could see the... (Read full poem)
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