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The term "back and forth the wave go" has been searched for 25 times on the American Poems site since September 26th, 2005.
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1. We send the Wave to find the Wave -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1299 times on American Poems.
We send the Wave to find the Wave --
An Errand so divine,
The Messenger enamored too,
Forgetting to return,
We make the wise distinction still,
Soever made in vain,
The sagest time to dam the sea is when the sea is gone --(Read full poem)
2. A Kiss - written by Thomas Lux
Read 1706 times on American Poems.
One wave falling forward meets another wave falling
forward. Well-water,
hand-hauled, mineral, cool, could be
a kiss, or pastures
fiery green after rain, before
the grazers. The kiss -- like a shoal of fish whipped
one way, another way, like the... (Read full poem)
3. Ballad of a Ship - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 592 times on American Poems.
Down by the flash of the restless water
The dim White Ship like a white bird lay;
Laughing at life and the world they sought her,
And out she swung to the silvering bay.
Then off they flew on their roystering way,
And the keen moon fired... (Read full poem)
4. An Ending - written by Philip Levine
Read 1331 times on American Poems.
Early March.
The cold beach deserted. My kids
home in a bare house, bundled up
and listening to rock music
pirated from England. My wife
waiting for me in a bar, alone
for an hour over her sherry, and none
of us knows why I have to pace
back... (Read full poem)
5. A Passing Hail - written by James Whitcomb Riley
Read 1087 times on American Poems.
Let us rest ourselves a bit!
Worry?-- wave your hand to it --
Kiss your finger-tips and smile
It farewell a little while.
Weary of the weary way
We have come from Yesterday,
Let us fret not, instead,
Of the wary way ahead.
Let us... (Read full poem)
6. Milton - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Birds Of Passage.
Read 790 times on American Poems.
I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold
How the voluminous billows roll and run,
Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun
Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled,
And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold
All its... (Read full poem)
7. A Negro Love Song - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 3172 times on American Poems.
Seen my lady home las' night,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hel' huh han' an' sque'z it tight,
Jump back, honey, jump back.
Hyeahd huh sigh a little sigh,
Seen a light gleam f'om huh eye,
An' a smile go flittin' by --
Jump back,... (Read full poem)
8. The Fury Of Sunrises - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 2600 times on American Poems.
Darkness
as black as your eyelid,
poketricks of stars,
the yellow mouth,
the smell of a stranger,
dawn coming up,
dark blue,
no stars,
the smell of a love,
warmer now
as authenic as soap,
wave after wave
of lightness
and the birds in... (Read full poem)
9. The Flood - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 7588 times on American Poems.
Blood has been harder to dam back than water.
Just when we think we have it impounded safe
Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!),
It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter.
We choose to say it is let loose by the devil;
But power of blood... (Read full poem)
10. The Valley Of Unrest - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 3528 times on American Poems.
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight... (Read full poem)
11. The Geranium - written by Kate Northrop
From Back Through Interruption.
Published in 2002.
Read 237 times on American Poems.
How can you stand it—looking at things?
For example, the geranium
out on the patio, the single pink
blossom in the sun? Or stand the sunlight
moving through it,
illuminating, holding the flower open like a high
clear note, an... (Read full poem)
12. At Melville's Tomb - written by Hart Crane
Read 2998 times on American Poems.
Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath
An embassy. Their numbers as he watched,
Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured.
And wrecks passed without sound of bells,
The calyx of death's bounty... (Read full poem)
13. Fire On The Hills - written by Robinson Jeffers
From Tamar.
Read 1273 times on American Poems.
The deer were bounding like blown leaves
Under the smoke in front the roaring wave of the brush-fire;
I thought of the smaller lives that were caught.
Beauty is not always lovely; the fire was beautiful, the terror
Of the deer was beautiful; and... (Read full poem)
14. The Sea - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 5818 times on American Poems.
Who lay against the sea, and fled,
Who lightly loved the wave,
Shall never know, when he is dead,
A cool and murmurous grave.
But in a shallow pit shall rest
For all eternity,
And bear the earth upon the breas
That once had worn the sea.(Read full poem)
15. A Waltz-Quadrille - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 438 times on American Poems.
The band was playing a waltz-quadrille,
I felt as light as a wind-blown feather,
As we floated away, at the caller’s will,
Through the intricate, mazy dance together.
Like mimic armies our lines were meeting,
Slowly advancing, and then... (Read full poem)
16. For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2136 times on American Poems.
In his tenth July some instinct
taught him to arm the waiting wave,
a giant where its mouth hung open.
He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
and buckled him under. The beach was strung
with children paddling their ages in,
under the glare od noon... (Read full poem)
17. Another Sarah - written by Katherine Anne Porter
Read 990 times on American Poems.
for Christopher Smart
When winter was half over
God sent three angels to the
apple-tree
Who said to her
"Be glad, you little rack
Of empty sticks,
Because you have been chosen.
In May you will become
A wave of living sweetness
A nation of... (Read full poem)
19. Two Look at Two - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 8006 times on American Poems.
Love and forgetting might have carried them
A little further up the mountain side
With night so near, but not much further up.
They must have halted soon in any case
With thoughts of a path back, how rough it was
With rock and washout, and... (Read full poem)
20. Penelope - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 5894 times on American Poems.
In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the world and sky are one,
He shall ride the silver seas,
He shall cut the glittering wave.
I shall sit at home, and rock;
Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;
Brew my tea, and snip my... (Read full poem)
21. Snakecharmer - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1957.
Read 4065 times on American Poems.
As the gods began one world, and man another,
So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere
With moon-eye, mouth-pipe, He pipes. Pipes green. Pipes water.
Pipes water green until green waters waver
With reedy lengths and necks and undulatings.
And as... (Read full poem)
22. Burial - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 4587 times on American Poems.
Mine is a body that should die at sea!
And have for a grave, instead of a grave
Six feet deep and the length of me,
All the water that is under the wave!
And terrible fishes to seize my flesh,
Such as a living man might fear,
And eat me while I am... (Read full poem)
23. The Daughter Goes To Camp - written by Sharon Olds
Read 2101 times on American Poems.
In the taxi alone, home from the airport,
I could not believe you were gone. My palm kept
creeping over the smooth plastic
to find your strong meaty little hand and
squeeze it, find your narrow thigh in the
noble ribbing of the... (Read full poem)
24. The Sleeper - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 4149 times on American Poems.
At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steals drowsily and musically
Into the universal... (Read full poem)
25. Song - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 5067 times on American Poems.
Oh! To be a flower
Nodding in the sun,
Bending, then upspringing
As the breezes run;
Holding up
A scent-brimmed cup,
Full of summer's fragrance to the summer sun.
Oh! To be a butterfly
Still, upon a flower,
Winking with its painted... (Read full poem)
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