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The term "W H north south east and west" has been searched for 39 times on the American Poems site since April 5th, 2007.
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1. Wind - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 4706 times on American Poems.
He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea,
He steals the down from the honeybee,
He makes the forest trees rustle and sing,
He twirls my kite till it breaks its string.
Laughing, dancing, sunny wind,
Whistling, howling, rainy wind,
North,... (Read full poem)
2. To The States. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2526 times on American Poems.
WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters!
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, your torrid suns! O north,... (Read full poem)
3. To the East and to the West. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2285 times on American Poems.
TO the East and to the West;
To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
To the Kanadian of the North—to the Southerner I love;
These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself—the germs are in all men;
I believe the main... (Read full poem)
4. The Sun and Moon must make their haste -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2551 times on American Poems.
The Sun and Moon must make their haste --
The Stars express around
For in the Zones of Paradise
The Lord alone is burned --
His Eye, it is the East and West --
The North and South when He
Do concentrate His Countenance
Like Glow Worms, flee away... (Read full poem)
5. Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1408 times on American Poems.
Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated --
Blameless of a Name --
Efflorescence of a Sunset --
Reproduced -- the same --
Seed, had I, my Purple Sowing
Should endow the Day --
Not a Topic of a Twilight --
Show itself away --
Who for tilling -- to the... (Read full poem)
6. New England Mind - written by Robert Francis
Read 434 times on American Poems.
My mind matches this understand land.
Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift,
Indoors the constant fire, the careful thrift
Are facts that I accept and understand.
I have brought in red berries and green boughs-
Berries of black... (Read full poem)
7. How Yesterday Looked - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1599 times on American Poems.
THE HIGH horses of the sea broke their white riders
On the walls that held and counted the hours
The wind lasted.
Two landbirds looked on and the north and the east
Looked on and the wind poured cups of foam
And the evening began.
The old men... (Read full poem)
8. Mal Agueros - written by Nick Carbo
Read 625 times on American Poems.
If you come to Mojacar
and peel open an orange full of worms,
count how many there are because
those are the days it will take for your body
to decompose after you are buried.
If you come to Mojacar
and find a small green snake with its... (Read full poem)
9. Lucky - written by Thomas Lux
Read 1264 times on American Poems.
One sweet pound of filet mignon
sizzles on the roadside. Let's say a hundred yards below
the buzzard. The buzzard
sees no cars or other buzzards
between the mountain range due north
and the horizon to the south
and across the desert west and east
no... (Read full poem)
10. Facing West from California’s Shores. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3375 times on American Poems.
FACING west, from California’s shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations,
look afar,
Look off the shores of my Western Sea—the circle... (Read full poem)
11. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 1034 times on American Poems.
The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
He bites it, day by day,
Until there's but a rim of scraps
That crumble all away.
The South Wind is a baker.
He kneads clouds in his den,
And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy
North . . . Wind .... (Read full poem)
12. Behind Me -- dips Eternity -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3845 times on American Poems.
Behind Me -- dips Eternity --
Before Me -- Immortality --
Myself -- the Term between --
Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,
Dissolving into Dawn away,
Before the West begin --
'Tis Kingdoms -- afterward -- they say --
In perfect -- pauseless... (Read full poem)
13. Who is the East? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1316 times on American Poems.
Who is the East?
The Yellow Man
Who may be Purple if He can
That carries in the Sun.
Who is the West?
The Purple Man
Who may be Yellow if He can
That lets Him out again.(Read full poem)
14. The Wind took up the Northern Things - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1246 times on American Poems.
The Wind took up the Northern Things
And piled them in the south --
Then gave the East unto the West
And opening his mouth
The four Divisions of the Earth
Did make as to devour
While everything to corners slunk
Behind the awful power --
The Wind... (Read full poem)
15. The Most - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2000 times on American Poems.
here comes the fishhead singing
here comes the baked potato in drag
here comes nothing to do all day long
here comes another night of no sleep
here comes the phone wringing the wrong tone
here comes a termite with a banjo
here comes a flagpole with... (Read full poem)
16. Canis Major - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 4962 times on American Poems.
The great Overdog
That heavenly beast
With a star in one eye
Gives a leap in the east.
He dances upright
All the way to the west
And never once drops
On his forefeet to rest.
I'm a poor underdog,
But to-night I will bark
With the great Overdog
That... (Read full poem)
17. The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Published in 1905.
Read 303 times on American Poems.
A sinner was old Captain Dan;
His wives guv him no rest:
He had one wife to East Skiddaw
And one to Skiddaw West.
Now Ann Eliza was the name
Of her at East Skiddaw;
She was the most cantankerous
Female you ever saw.
I don’t know... (Read full poem)
18. The South Wind Say So - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1550 times on American Poems.
IF the oriole calls like last year
when the south wind sings in the oats,
if the leaves climb and climb on a bean pole
saying over a song learnt from the south wind,
if the crickets send up the same old lessons
found when the south wind keeps on... (Read full poem)
19. Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 6557 times on American Poems.
The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight.
In summer when I passed the place
I had to stop and lift my face;
A bird with an angelic gift
Was... (Read full poem)
20. New England - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 1247 times on American Poems.
Here where the wind is always north-north-east
And children learn to walk on frozen toes,
Wonder begets an envy of all those
Who boil elsewhere with such a lyric yeast
Of love that you will hear them at a feast
Where demons would appeal for... (Read full poem)
21. New York at Night - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 7576 times on American Poems.
A near horizon whose sharp jags
Cut brutally into a sky
Of leaden heaviness, and crags
Of houses lift their masonry
Ugly and foul, and chimneys lie
And snort, outlined against the gray
Of lowhung cloud. I hear the sigh
The goaded city gives,... (Read full poem)
22. So Many Blood-Lakes - written by Robinson Jeffers
Published in 1944.
Read 940 times on American Poems.
We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were
slipped in. We have levelled the powers
Of Europe, that were the powers of the world, into rubble and
dependence. We have won two wars and a third is comming.
This one--will... (Read full poem)
23. Whirls - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1476 times on American Poems.
NEITHER rose leaves gathered in a jar—respectably in Boston—these—nor drops of Christ blood for a chalice—decently in Philadelphia or Baltimore.
Cinders—these—hissing in a marl and lime of Chicago—also... (Read full poem)
24. Weird-Bird - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 4477 times on American Poems.
Birds are flyin' south for winter.
Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,
Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',
Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.
He says, "It's not that I like ice
Or freezin' winds and snowy ground.
It's just... (Read full poem)
25. 90 North - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2152 times on American Poems.
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides
I sailed all night—till at last, with my black beard,
My furs and my dogs, I stood at the northern pole.
There in the childish night my... (Read full poem)
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