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The term "Zoo keeper" has been searched for 173 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. Prayers After World War - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3063 times on American Poems.
WANDERING oversea dreamer,
Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother,
Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood,
Child of the hair let down, and tears,
Child of the cross in the south
And the star in the north,
Keeper of Egypt and Russia and... (Read full poem)
2. Rev. Abner Peet - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 326 times on American Poems.
I had no objection at all
To selling my household effects at auction
On the village square.
It gave my beloved flock the chance
To get something which had belonged to me
For a memorial.
But that trunk which was struck off
To Burchard, the... (Read full poem)
3. He was my host -- he was my guest, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1939 times on American Poems.
He was my host -- he was my guest,
I never to this day
If I invited him could tell,
Or he invited me.
So infinite our intercourse
So intimate, indeed,
Analysis as capsule seemed
To keeper of the seed.(Read full poem)
4. Given in Marriage unto Thee - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2570 times on American Poems.
Given in Marriage unto Thee
Oh thou Celestial Host --
Bride of the Father and the Son
Bride of the Holy Ghost.
Other Betrothal shall dissolve --
Wedlock of Will, decay --
Only the Keeper of this Ring
Conquer Mortality --(Read full poem)
5. Country Fair - written by Charles Simic
From Hotel Insomnia.
Published in 1992.
Read 975 times on American Poems.
for Hayden Carruth
If you didn't see the six-legged dog,
It doesn't matter.
We did, and he mostly lay in the corner.
As for the extra legs,
One got used to them quickly
And thought of other things.
Like, what a cold, dark night
To be out at the... (Read full poem)
6. A Rhyme of Death's Inn - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Read 2049 times on American Poems.
A rhyme of good Death's inn!
My love came to that door;
And she had need of many things,
The way had been so sore.
My love she lifted up her head,
"And is there room?" said she;
"There was no room in Bethlehem's inn
For... (Read full poem)
7. Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2326 times on American Poems.
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard!
Was the Leopard -- bold?
Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin --
Ethiop -- her Gold --
Tawny -- her Customs --
She was Conscious --
Spotted -- her Dun Gown --
This was the Leopard's nature -- Signor --
Need -- a... (Read full poem)
8. Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2783 times on American Poems.
I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . .
When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me. . . .
I am food on the... (Read full poem)
9. Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2579 times on American Poems.
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness --
Blush, my unacknowledged clay --
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood... (Read full poem)
10. Aprons of Silence - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1589 times on American Poems.
MANY things I might have said today.
And I kept my mouth shut.
So many times I was asked
To come and say the same things
Everybody was saying, no end
To the yes-yes, yes-yes, me-too, me-too.
The aprons of silence covered me.
A wire and hatch held... (Read full poem)
11. Wilderness - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 4466 times on American Poems.
THERE is a wolf in me … fangs pointed for tearing gashes … a red tongue for raw meat … and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in... (Read full poem)
12. The Haunted Oak - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 1213 times on American Poems.
Pray why are you so bare, so bare,
Oh, bough of the old oak-tree;
And why, when I go through the shade you throw,
Runs a shudder over me?
My leaves were green as the best, I trow,
And sap ran free in my veins,
But I say in the moonlight dim... (Read full poem)
13. Judgment Day - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From The Tuscarora Club's Forty Year History.
Published in 1941.
Read 769 times on American Poems.
Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate,
All souls claims to adjudicate
Saying to some souls, "Enter in!"
"Go to Hell," to others, "you are steeped in sin."
When up from earth, with a great hubbub,
Came all the members of the Tuscarora... (Read full poem)
14. All My Pretty Ones - written by Anne Sexton
Read 9687 times on American Poems.
Father, this year's jinx rides us apart
where you followed our mother to her cold slumber;
a second shock boiling its stone to your heart,
leaving me here to shuffle and disencumber
you from the residence you could not afford:
a gold key, your... (Read full poem)
15. The Bride of Frankenstein - written by Edward Field
Read 648 times on American Poems.
The Baron has decided to mate the monster,
to breed him perhaps,
in the interests of pure science, his only god.
So he goes up into his laboratory
which he has built in the tower of the castle
to be as near the interplanetary forces as... (Read full poem)
16. Singer in the Prison, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3158 times on American Poems.
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O sight of shame, and pain, and dole!
O fearful thought—a convict Soul!
RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison,
Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above,
Pouring in floods of melody, in tones so pensive, sweet... (Read full poem)
17. Drum-Taps. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 6852 times on American Poems.
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FIRST, O songs, for a prelude,
Lightly strike on the stretch’d tympanum, pride and joy in my city,
How she led the rest to arms—how she gave the cue,
How at once with lithe limbs, unwaiting a moment, she sprang;
(O superb! O... (Read full poem)
18. At Pleasure Bay - written by Robert Pinsky
Read 1470 times on American Poems.
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay
A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice.
Here under the pines a little off the road
In 1927 the Chief of Police
And Mrs. W. killed themselves together,
Sitting in a roadster. Ancient unshaken... (Read full poem)
19. The Division Of Parts - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2974 times on American Poems.
1.
Mother, my Mary Gray,
once resident of Gloucester
and Essex County,
a photostat of your will
arrived in the mail today.
This is the division of money.
I am one third
of your daughters counting my bounty
or I am a queen alone
in the parlor... (Read full poem)
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