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The term "back at the place we started" has been searched for 68 times on the American Poems site since November 12th, 2004.
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1. I started Early -- Took my Dog -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 17956 times on American Poems.
I started Early -- Took my Dog --
And visited the Sea --
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me --
And Frigates -- in the Upper Floor
Extended Hempen Hands --
Presuming Me to be a Mouse --
Aground -- upon the Sands --
But no... (Read full poem)
2. Listen, Leo - written by Jon Anderson
Read 585 times on American Poems.
Listen, Leo, remember the lifeboat
we pilfered from what you said
was an abandoned garage sale,
1442 Columbus, not the explorer,
the street? Last night I came to,
retired to the basement to ponder
my position on circumspection,
the fate of the... (Read full poem)
3. Smiling back from Coronation - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1471 times on American Poems.
Smiling back from Coronation
May be Luxury --
On the Heads that started with us --
Being's Peasantry --
Recognizing in Procession
Ones We former knew --
When Ourselves were also dusty --
Centuries ago --
Had the Triumph no Conviction
Of how many... (Read full poem)
4. Going Gone - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4198 times on American Poems.
Over stone walls and barns,
miles from the black-eyed Susans,
over circus tents and moon rockets
you are going, going.
You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going.
An old woman calls up to you
from her deathbed... (Read full poem)
5. Danny O'Dare - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 4901 times on American Poems.
Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear,
Ran away from the County Fair,
Ran right up to my back stair
And thought he'd do some dancin' there.
He started jumpin' and skippin' and kickin',
He did a dance called the Funky Chicken,
He did the Polka,... (Read full poem)
6. Knucks - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1258 times on American Poems.
IN Abraham Lincoln’s city,
Where they remember his lawyer’s shingle,
The place where they brought him
Wrapped in battle flags,
Wrapped in the smoke of memories
From Tallahassee to the Yukon,
The place now where the shaft of his tomb
Points... (Read full poem)
7. Circulation - written by Raymond Carver
From Ultramarine.
Published in 1986.
Read 5608 times on American Poems.
And all at length are gathered in.
--LOUISE BOGAN
By the time I came around to feeling pain
and woke up, moonlight
flooded the room. My arm lay paralyzed,
propped up like an old anchor under
your back. You were in a... (Read full poem)
8. 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)
9. I know a place where Summer strives - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2145 times on American Poems.
I know a place where Summer strives
With such a practised Frost --
She -- each year -- leads her Daisies back --
Recording briefly -- "Lost" --
But when the South Wind stirs the Pools
And struggles in the lanes --
Her Heart misgives Her, for Her... (Read full poem)
10. The House - written by Philip Levine
Read 651 times on American Poems.
This poem has a door, a locked door,
and curtains drawn against the day,
but at night the lights come on, one
in each room, and the neighbors swear
they hear music and the sound of dancing.
These days the neighbors will swear
to anything, but... (Read full poem)
11. Jewels - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 2348 times on American Poems.
If I should see your eyes again,
I know how far their look would go --
Back to a morning in the park
With sapphire shadows on the snow.
Or back to oak trees in the spring
When you unloosed my hair and kissed
The head that lay against your knees... (Read full poem)
12. She died -- this was the way she died. - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 8550 times on American Poems.
She died -- this was the way she died.
And when her breath was done
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The Angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.(Read full poem)
13. Bert Kessler - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 370 times on American Poems.
I winged my bird,
Though he flew toward the setting sun;
But just as the shot rang out, he soared
Up and up through the splinters of golden light,
Till he turned right over, feathers ruffled,
With some of the down of him floating near,... (Read full poem)
14. What Place is Besieged? - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1919 times on American Poems.
WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal;
And with him horse and foot—and parks of artillery,
And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.(Read full poem)
15. The Thatch - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 2968 times on American Poems.
Out alone in the winter rain,
Intent on giving and taking pain.
But never was I far out of sight
Of a certain upper-window light.
The light was what it was all about:
I would not go in till the light went out;
It would not go out till I came... (Read full poem)
16. Variation On A Theme By Rilke - written by Denise Levertov
Read 766 times on American Poems.
A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me--a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a... (Read full poem)
17. Uprooting - written by John Montague
From About Love.
Published in 1993.
Read 456 times on American Poems.
My love, while we talked
They removed the roof. Then
They started on the walls,
Panes of glass uprooting
From timber, like teeth.
But you spoke calmly on,
Your example of courtesy
Compelling me to reply.
When we reached the last
Syllable, nearly... (Read full poem)
18. love is a place... (58) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 41513 times on American Poems.
love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds(Read full poem)
19. Herbert White - written by Frank Bidart
From Golden State.
Published in 1973.
Read 3342 times on American Poems.
"When I hit her on the head, it was good,
and then I did it to her a couple of times,--
but it was funny,--afterwards,
it was as if somebody else did it ...
Everything flat, without sharpness, richness or line.
Still, I liked to drive past the... (Read full poem)
20. Hiding Place - written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Read 936 times on American Poems.
Hail sov'reign love that first began,
The scheme to rescue fallen man;
Hail matchless, free, eternal grace,
That gave my soul a Hiding-Place.
Against the God that rules the sky,
I fought with hands uplifted high;
Despis'd the mentions of... (Read full poem)
21. The image, as in a Hexagram: - written by Lew Welch
Read 335 times on American Poems.
The image, as in a Hexagram:
The hermit locks his door against the blizzard.
He keeps the cabin warm.
All winter long he sorts out all he has.
What was well started shall be finished.
What was not, should be thrown away.
In spring he... (Read full poem)
22. In a Vale - written by Robert Frost
From A Boy's Will.
Published in 1913.
Read 8330 times on American Poems.
WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale
By a misty fen that rang all night,
And thus it was the maidens pale
I knew so well, whose garments trail
Across the reeds to a window light.
The fen had every kind of bloom,
And for every kind... (Read full poem)
23. With sweetness unabated - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1488 times on American Poems.
With sweetness unabated
Informed the hour had come
With no remiss of triumph
The autumn started home
Her home to be with Nature
As competition done
By influential kinsmen
Invited to return --
In supplements of Purple
An adequate repast
In heavenly... (Read full poem)
24. Three little birds in a row - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 11656 times on American Poems.
Three little birds in a row
Sat musing.
A man passed near that place.
Then did the little birds nudge each other.
They said, "He thinks he can sing."
They threw back their heads to laugh.
With quaint countenances
They regarded him.
They were very... (Read full poem)
25. I Made A Mistake - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 9463 times on American Poems.
I reached up into the top of the closet
and took out a pair of blue panties
and showed them to her and
asked "are these yours?"
and she looked and said,
"no, those belong to a dog."
she left after that and I haven't seen
her... (Read full poem)
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