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The term "b irthday and girl" has been searched for 454 times on the American Poems site since June 21st, 2005.
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1. A Life-Lesson - written by James Whitcomb Riley
Read 4081 times on American Poems.
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your doll, I know;
And your tea-set blue,
And your play-house, too,
Are things of the long ago;
But childish troubles will soon pass by. --
There! little girl; don't cry!
There!... (Read full poem)
2. There is a girl inside - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 2272 times on American Poems.
There is a girl inside.
She is randy as a wolf.
She will not walk away and leave these bones
to an old woman.
She is a green tree in a forest of kindling.
She is a greeen girl in a used poet.
She has waited patient as a nun
for the... (Read full poem)
3. The Plot Against The Giant - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 1850 times on American Poems.
First Girl
When this yokel comes maundering,
Whetting his hacker,
I shall run before him,
Diffusing the civilest odors
Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.
It will check him.
Second Girl
I shall run before him,
Arching cloths... (Read full poem)
4. Haunts - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1970 times on American Poems.
THERE are places I go when I am strong.
One is a marsh pool where I used to go
with a long-ear hound-dog.
One is a wild crabapple tree; I was there
a moonlight night with a girl.
The dog is gone; the girl is gone; I go to these... (Read full poem)
5. My Little March Girl - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
From Lyrics of the Hearthside.
Published in 1899.
Read 1519 times on American Poems.
Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart,
There she is passing, the girl of my heart;
See where she walks like a queen in the street,
Weather-defying, calm, placid and sweet.
Tripping along with impetuous grace,
Joy of her life beaming out of... (Read full poem)
6. my girl's tall with hard long eyes... (XIX) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 16425 times on American Poems.
my girl's tall with hard long eyes
as she stands, with her long hard hands keeping
silence on her dress, good for sleeping
is her long hard body filled with surprise
like a white shocking wire, when she smiles
a hard long smile it sometimes... (Read full poem)
7. The Goose-Girl - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2785 times on American Poems.
Spring rides no horses down the hill,
But comes on foot, a goose-girl still.
And all the loveliest things there be
Come simply, so, it seems to me.
If ever I said, in grief or pride,
I tired of honest things, I lied:
And should be cursed... (Read full poem)
8. Now at Liberty - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 2742 times on American Poems.
Little white love, your way you've taken;
Now I am left alone, alone.
Little white love, my heart's forsaken.
(Whom shall I get by telephone?)
Well do I know there's no returning;
Once you go out, it's done, it's done.
All of my days are gray with... (Read full poem)
9. Ode To Pornography - written by David Lehman
Read 1400 times on American Poems.
If you could write down the words
moving through a man's mind as
he masturbates you'd have a quick
bonus bonk read, I used to think.
But words were never adequate
or the point in the bar where the girl
is a boy the boy is a girl the two... (Read full poem)
10. Red-headed Restaurant Cashier - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3178 times on American Poems.
SHAKE back your hair, O red-headed girl.
Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin.
Somewhere is a man looking for a red-headed girl and some day maybe he will look into your eyes for a restaurant cashier and find a lover,... (Read full poem)
11. I prayed, at first, a little Girl, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3524 times on American Poems.
I prayed, at first, a little Girl,
Because they told me to --
But stopped, when qualified to guess
How prayer would feel -- to me --
If I believed God looked around,
Each time my Childish eye
Fixed full, and steady, on his own
In Childish honesty... (Read full poem)
12. Our Hired Girl - written by James Whitcomb Riley
From Complete Works.
Published in 1916.
Read 3121 times on American Poems.
Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann;
An' she can cook best things to eat!
She ist puts dough in our pie-pan,
An' pours in somepin' 'at's good an' sweet;
An' nen she salts it all on top
With cinnamon; an' nen she'll stop
An' stoop... (Read full poem)
13. Dream Girl - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 5330 times on American Poems.
YOU will come one day in a waver of love,
Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
The tan of the sun will be on your skin,
The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech,
You will pose with a hill-flower grace.
You will come, with your slim,... (Read full poem)
14. The Dover Bitch: A Criticism Of Life - written by Anthony Hecht
From Flight Among the Tombs.
Published in 1996.
Read 6961 times on American Poems.
So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, "Try to be true to me,
And I'll do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc."
Well now, I knew this girl. It's... (Read full poem)
15. Willard Fluke - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1654 times on American Poems.
My wife lost her health,
And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.
Then that woman, whom the men
Styled Cleopatra, came along.
And we -- we married ones
All broke our vows, myself among the rest.
Years passed and one by one
Death... (Read full poem)
16. A Girl's Garden - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 15557 times on American Poems.
A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village
Likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.
One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, "Why... (Read full poem)
17. Erasing Amyloo - written by Russell Edson
Read 954 times on American Poems.
A father with a huge eraser erases his daughter. When he
finishes there's only a red smudge on the wall.
His wife says, where is Amyloo?
She's a mistake, I erased her.
What about all her lovely things? asks his wife.
I'll erase them too.... (Read full poem)
18. Raw With Love - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2879 times on American Poems.
little dark girl with
kind eyes
when it comes time to
use the knife
I won't flinch and
i won't blame
you,
as I drive along the shorealone
as the palms wave,
the ugly heavy palms,
as the living does not arrive
as the dead do notleave,
i... (Read full poem)
19. Crabapple Blossoms - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1832 times on American Poems.
SOMEBODY’S little girl—how easy to make a sob story over who she was once and who she is now.
Somebody’s little girl—she played once under a crab-apple tree in June and the blossoms fell on the dark hair.
It was somewhere on... (Read full poem)
20. It's Raining In Love - written by Richard Brautigan
Published in 1950.
Read 4262 times on American Poems.
I don't know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.
It makes me nervous.
I don't say the right things
or perhaps I start
to examine,
evaluate,
compute
what I am saying.
If I say, "Do you... (Read full poem)
22. A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty - written by Ogden Nash
Read 7586 times on American Poems.
Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
Feels the sun with terror,
One unwilling step she takes,
Shuddering to the mirror. Miranda in Miranda's sight
Is old and gray and dirty;
Twenty-nine she was last night;
This morning she is thirty.
Shining like the... (Read full poem)
23. The Woman in the Ordinary - written by Marge Piercy
Read 2212 times on American Poems.
The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl
is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched.
Round and pebble smooth she effaces herself
under ripples of conversation and debate.
The woman in the block of ivory soap
has massive thighs that... (Read full poem)
24. shapeshifter poems - written by Lucille Clifton
From Next.
Read 10536 times on American Poems.
1
the legend is whispered
in the women's tent
how the moon when she rises
full
follows some men into themselves
and changes them there
the season is short
but dreadful shapeshifters
they wear strange hands
they walk through the... (Read full poem)
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