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The term "back country" has been searched for 76 times on the American Poems site since November 17th, 2004.
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2. Song of the Bowmen of Shu - written by Ezra Pound
Read 3280 times on American Poems.
Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots
And saying: When shall we get back to our country?
Here we are because we have the Ken-nin for our foemen,
We have no comfort because of these Mongols.
We grub the soft fern-shoots,
When anyone... (Read full poem)
4. yes is a pleasant country... (XXXVIII) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 8958 times on American Poems.
yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)(Read full poem)
5. Anthony Findlay - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 418 times on American Poems.
Both for the country and for the man,
And for a country as well as a man,
'Tis better to be feared than loved.
And if this country would rather part
With the friendship of every nation
Than surrender its wealth,
I say of a man 'tis worse to... (Read full poem)
6. For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid - written by William Stafford
Read 1894 times on American Poems.
There is a country to cross you will
find in the corner of your eye, in
the quick slip of your foot--air far
down, a snap that might have caught.
And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing
voice that finds its way by being
afraid. That country is... (Read full poem)
7. My country need not change her gown, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1643 times on American Poems.
My country need not change her gown,
Her triple suit as sweet
As when 'twas cut at Lexington,
And first pronounced "a fit."
Great Britain disapproves, "the stars";
Disparagement discreet, --
There's something in their attitude
That taunts her... (Read full poem)
8. The Visitor - written by Carolyn Forché
From The Country Between Us.
Published in 1979.
Read 1341 times on American Poems.
In Spanish he whispers there is no time left.
It is the sound of scythes arcing in wheat,
the ache of some field song in Salvador.
The wind along the prison, cautious
as Francisco's hands on the inside, touching
the walls as he walks, it is... (Read full poem)
9. December At Yase - written by Gary Snyder
From The Back Country.
Published in 1968.
Read 1320 times on American Poems.
You said, that October,
In the tall dry grass by the orchard
When you chose to be free,
"Again someday, maybe ten years."
After college I saw you
One time. You were strange,
And I was obsessed with a plan.
Now ten years and more have
Gone by:... (Read full poem)
10. City Trees - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 4859 times on American Poems.
The trees along this city street,
Save for the traffic and the trains,
Would make a sound as thin and sweet
As trees in country lanes.
And people standing in their shade
Out of a shower, undoubtedly
Would hear such music as is made
Upon a country... (Read full poem)
11. 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)
12. Praise Life - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 1900 times on American Poems.
This country least, but every inhabited country
Is clotted with human anguish.
Remember that at your feasts.
And this is no new thing but from time out of mind,
No transient thing, but exactly
Conterminous with human life.
Praise life, it... (Read full poem)
13. Hymn To Eros - written by Denise Levertov
Read 702 times on American Poems.
O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.
Let the shadow of thy wings
brush me.
Let thy presence
enfold me, as if darkness
were swandown.
Let me see that darkness
lamp in hand,
this country become
the other country
sacred to... (Read full poem)
14. 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)
15. The Bear - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 8343 times on American Poems.
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her
And draws it down as if it were a lover
And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye,
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.
Her next step rocks a boulder on the wall
(She's making her... (Read full poem)
16. The Concert - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2147 times on American Poems.
No, I will go alone.
I will come back when it's over.
Yes, of course I love you.
No, it will not be long.
Why may you not come with me?—
You are too much my lover.
You would put yourself
Between me and song.
If I go alone,
Quiet and suavely... (Read full poem)
17. The Need of Being Versed in Country Things - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 6180 times on American Poems.
The house had gone to bring again
To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
Like a pistil after the petals go.
The barn opposed across the way,
That would have joined the house in flame
Had it been the... (Read full poem)
18. Days of Pie and Coffee - written by James Tate
Read 6447 times on American Poems.
A motorist once said to me,
and this was in the country,
on a county lane, a motorist
slowed his vehicle as I was
walking my dear old collie,
Sithney, by the side of the road,
and the motorist came to a halt
mildly alarming both Sithney and... (Read full poem)
19. St. Alexis, Patron of Beggars - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 1427 times on American Poems.
We who beg for bread as we daily tread
Country lane and city street,
Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway
To the saint with the vagrant feet.
Our altar light is a buttercup bright,
And our shrine is a bank of sod,
But still we share St.... (Read full poem)
20. Wandering at Morn. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2087 times on American Poems.
WANDERING at morn,
Emerging from the night, from gloomy thoughts—thee in my thoughts,
Yearning for thee, harmonious Union! thee, Singing Bird divine!
Thee, seated coil’d in evil times, my Country, with craft and black dismay—with... (Read full poem)
21. Long Guns - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3023 times on American Poems.
THEN came, Oscar, the time of the guns.
And there was no land for a man, no land for a country,
Unless guns sprang up
And spoke their language.
The how of running the world was all in guns.
The law of a God keeping sea and land apart,
The law... (Read full poem)
22. The Country Of Marriage - written by Wendell Berry
From The Country of Marriage.
Read 3326 times on American Poems.
I.
I dream of you walking at night along the streams
of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs
of birds opening around you as you walk.
You are holding in your body the dark seed of my sleep.
II.
This comes after silence. Was it... (Read full poem)
23. Candle Hat - written by Billy Collins
Read 4885 times on American Poems.
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates:
Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes,
Van Gogh stares out of a halo of swirling darkness,
Rembrant looks relieved as if he were taking a breather
from painting The Blinding of... (Read full poem)
24. Beyond - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 524 times on American Poems.
It seemeth such a little way to me
Across to that strange country – the Beyond;
And yet, not strange, for it has grown to be
The home of those whom I am so fond,
They make it seem familiar and most dear,
As journeying friends bring distant... (Read full poem)
25. Dream Song 26: The glories of the world struck me - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 862 times on American Poems.
The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.
—What happen then, Mr Bones?
if be you cares to say.
—Henry. Henry became interested in women's bodies,
his loins were & were the scene of stupendous achievement.
Stupor.... (Read full poem)
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