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The term "b ABYboy named george" has been searched for 361 times on the American Poems site since November 20th, 2004.
Search Results: 9 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. The Father Of Toads - written by Russell Edson
Read 788 times on American Poems.
A man had just delivered a toad from his wife's armpit. He
held it by its legs and spanked it.
Do you love it? said his wife.
It's our child, isn't it?
Does that mean you can't love it? she said.
It's hard enough to love a toad, but... (Read full poem)
2. Why Washington Retreated - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Published in 1905.
Read 538 times on American Poems.
1775
Said Congress to George Washington:
“To set this country free,
You’ll have to whip the Britishers
And chase them o’er the sea.”
“Oh, very well,” said Washington,
“I’ll do the best I can.
I’ll slam and bang those Britishers
And... (Read full poem)
4. A Boy Named Sue - written by Shel Silverstein
From sung by Johnny Cash.
Published in 1969.
Read 46411 times on American Poems.
Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,
just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.
Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,
but the meanest thing that he ever did was
before he left he went and... (Read full poem)
5. George Trimble - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 376 times on American Poems.
Do you remember when I stood on the steps
Of the Court House and talked free-silver,
And the single-tax of Henry George?
Then do you remember that, when the Peerless Leader
Lost the first battle, I began to talk prohibition,
And became active... (Read full poem)
6. Two Strangers Breakfast - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1727 times on American Poems.
THE LAW says you and I belong to each other, George.
The law says you are mine and I am yours, George.
And there are a million miles of white snowstorms, a million furnaces of hell,
Between the chair where you sit and the chair where I sit.
The law... (Read full poem)
7. George Sand - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 1822 times on American Poems.
What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
She spent in amorous dalliance
(They do those things so well in France).(Read full poem)
8. George Gissing - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 1433 times on American Poems.
When I admit neglect of Gissing,
They say I don't know what I'm missing.
Until their arguments are subtler,
I think I'll stick to Samuel Butler.(Read full poem)
9. A Man - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4094 times on American Poems.
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His
dinner dishes were undone, his breakfast dishes were undone, he needed a shave, and ash
from his rolled cigarettes dropped onto his undershirt. Some of the ash was... (Read full poem)
10. Fault - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 1406 times on American Poems.
They came to tell your faults to me,
They named them over one by one;
I laughed aloud when they were done,
I knew them all so well before, --
Oh, they were blind, too blind to see
Your faults had made me love you more.(Read full poem)
11. The Angel Food Dogs - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2997 times on American Poems.
Leaping, leaping, leaping,
down line by line,
growling at the cadavers,
filling the holy jugs with their piss,
falling into windows and mauling the parents,
but soft, kiss-soft,
and sobbing sobbing
into their awful dog dish.
No point? No twist for... (Read full poem)
12. Healed of My Hurt - written by Herman Melville
Read 1690 times on American Poems.
Healed of my hurt, I laud the inhuman Sea--
Yea, bless the Angels Four that there convene;
For healed I am even by the pitiless breath
Distilled in wholesome dew named rosmarine. (Read full poem)
13. The pungent atom in the Air - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1382 times on American Poems.
The pungent atom in the Air
Admits of no debate --
All that is named of Summer Days
Relinquished our Estate --
For what Department of Delight
As positive are we
As Limit of Dominion
Or Dams -- of Ecstasy --(Read full poem)
14. Mrs. George Reece - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 581 times on American Poems.
To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
It may serve a turn in your life.
My husband had nothing to do
With the fall of the bank -- he was only cashier.
The wreck was due to the president, Thomas... (Read full poem)
15. Aunt Imogen - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 757 times on American Poems.
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore
The children—Jane, Sylvester, and Young George—
Were eyes and ears; for there was only one
Aunt Imogen to them in the whole world,
And she was in it only for four weeks
In fifty-two. But those great... (Read full poem)
16. How We Heard the Name - written by Alan Dugan
Read 752 times on American Poems.
The river brought down
dead horses, dead men
and military debris,
indicative of war
or official acts upstream,
but it went by, it all
goes by, that is the thing
about the river. Then
a soldier on a log
went by. He seemed drunk
and we asked... (Read full poem)
17. Forbearance - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 3603 times on American Poems.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk;
At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse;
Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust;
And loved so well a high behavior
In man or maid, that thou... (Read full poem)
18. i am accused of tending to the past - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1119 times on American Poems.
i am accused of tending to the past
as if i made it,
as if i sculpted it
with my own hands. i did not.
this past was waiting for me
when i came,
a monstrous unnamed baby,
and i with my mother's itch
took it to breast
and named... (Read full poem)
19. Ai - written by Denise Duhamel
Read 2660 times on American Poems.
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five.
There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice
just won the National Book Award.
The name "Ai" is pronounced "I"
so that whenever I talk about the poet Ai
such as I'm teaching Ai's... (Read full poem)
20. George Crabbe - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 491 times on American Poems.
Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—
But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.
In spite of all fine science disavows,
Of his plain... (Read full poem)
21. A Pig's-Eye View of Literature - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 4215 times on American Poems.
The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of Lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And... (Read full poem)
22. Reasonable Interest - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Bookman.
Published in 1911.
Read 270 times on American Poems.
I want to know how Bernard Shaw
Likes beefsteak—fairly done, or raw?
I want to know what kinds of shoes
M. Maeterlinck and Howells use.
I have great curiosity
Regarding George Ade’s new boot tree.
Has Carolyn Wells of late employed
Hairpins... (Read full poem)
23. Margaret Fuller Slack - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 775 times on American Poems.
I would have been as great as George Eliot
But for an untoward fate.
For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit,
Chin resting on hand, and deep-set eyes --
Gray, too, and far-searching.
But there was the old, old problem:
Should it be... (Read full poem)
24. War Profit Litany - written by Allen Ginsberg
From The Fall of America.
Published in 1967.
Read 5088 times on American Poems.
To Ezra Pound
These are the names of the companies that have made
money from this war
nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand
eighty Hebraic
These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan-
dising... (Read full poem)
25. Batterson Dobyns - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 546 times on American Poems.
Did my widow flit about
From Mackinac to Los Angeles,
Resting and bathing and sitting an hour
Or more at the table over soup and meats
And delicate sweets and coffee?
I was cut down in my prime
From overwork and anxiety.
But I thought all... (Read full poem)
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