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The term "back pack" has been searched for 93 times on the American Poems site since November 16th, 2004.
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1. Her Losses make our Gains ashamed -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1229 times on American Poems.
Her Losses make our Gains ashamed --
She bore Life's empty Pack
As gallantly as if the East
Were swinging at her Back.
Life's empty Pack is heaviest,
As every Porter knows --
In vain to punish Honey --
It only sweeter grows.(Read full poem)
2. Daddy - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 47767 times on American Poems.
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time ----
Marble-heavy, a bag full of... (Read full poem)
3. Preaching Vs Practice - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1404 times on American Poems.
It is easy to sit in the sunshine
And talk to the man in the shade;
It is easy to float in a well-trimmed boat,
And point out the places to wade.
But once we pass into the shadows,
We murmur and fret and frown,
And, our length from the... (Read full poem)
4. Winter Landscape - written by John Berryman
From The Dispossessed.
Published in 1948.
Read 1863 times on American Poems.
The three men coming down the winter hill
In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds
At heel, through the arrangement of the trees,
Past the five figures at the burning straw,
Returning cold and silent to their town,
Returning to the drifted... (Read full poem)
5. The Swarm - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1962.
Read 2496 times on American Poems.
Somebody is shooting at something in our town --
A dull pom, pom in the Sunday street.
Jealousy can open the blood,
It can make black roses.
Who are the shooting at?
It is you the knives are out for
At Waterloo, Waterloo, Napoleon,
The hump of Elba... (Read full poem)
6. The Inventory Of Goodbye - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4299 times on American Poems.
I have a pack of letters,
I have a pack of memories.
I could cut out the eyes of both.
I could wear them like a patchwork apron.
I could stick them in the washer, the drier,
and maybe some of the pain would float off like dirt?
Perhaps down the... (Read full poem)
7. Granny - written by James Whitcomb Riley
From Complete Works.
Published in 1895.
Read 3252 times on American Poems.
Granny's come to our house,
And ho! my lawzy-daisy!
All the childern round the place
Is ist a-runnin' crazy!
Fetched a cake fer little Jake,
And fetched a pie fer Nanny,
And fetched a pear fer all the pack
That runs to kiss... (Read full poem)
8. Layover - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1997 times on American Poems.
Making love in the sun, in the morning sun
in a hotel room
above the alley
where poor men poke for bottles;
making love in the sun
making love by a carpet redder than our blood,
making love while the boys sell headlines
and Cadillacs,
making love by... (Read full poem)
9. 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)
10. The Firebombers - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2032 times on American Poems.
We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.
The bomb opens like a shoebox.
And the child?
The child is certainly not yawning.
And the woman?
The woman is bathing her... (Read full poem)
11. Madam And Her Madam - written by Langston Hughes
Read 15913 times on American Poems.
I worked for a woman,
She wasn't mean--
But she had a twelve-room
House to clean.
Had to get breakfast,
Dinner, and supper, too--
Then take care of her children
When I got through.
Wash, iron, and scrub,
Walk the dog around--
It was too... (Read full poem)
12. Were natural mortal lady - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2180 times on American Poems.
Were natural mortal lady
Who had so little time
To pack her trunk and order
The great exchange of clime --
How rapid, how momentous --
What exigencies were --
But nature will be ready
And have an hour to spare.
To make some trifle fairer
That was... (Read full poem)
13. I Won, You Lost - written by Philip Levine
Read 2934 times on American Poems.
The last of day gathers
in the yellow parlor
and drifts like fine dust
across the face of
the gilt-framed mirror
I ofien prayed to.
An old man's room
without him, a room I
came back to again
and again to steal
cigarettes and loose change,... (Read full poem)
14. Bones - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 5106 times on American Poems.
Sling me under the sea.
Pack me down in the salt and wet.
No farmer's plow shall touch my bones.
No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak
How jokes are gone and empty is my mouth.
Long, green-eyed scavengers shall pick my eyes,
Purple fish play... (Read full poem)
15. The Temple - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 484 times on American Poems.
To leave the earth was my wish, and no will stayed my rising.
Early, before sun had filled the roads with carts
Conveying folk to weddings and to murders;
Before men left their selves of sleep, to wander
In the dark of the world like whipped... (Read full poem)
16. Suitcase - written by Charles Webb
Read 274 times on American Poems.
Its silver clasp looks like a man grasping
his hands above his head in victory;
the latches, like twin hatchbacks headed away.
There are no wheels, just four steel nipples for sliding.
A hexagonal seal announces the defunct
"U.S. Trunk... (Read full poem)
17. The Samantha Sonnets #1 - written by Stanley Gemmell
Read 621 times on American Poems.
--after Emmanuel Hocquard
And Samantha I'm telling you
Standing stones, old Druid bones
(You have to see this to believe it)
I believe in her sweet angled hips
samantha-stone Observatory for
Three thousand Years
gorgeous I barely - I... (Read full poem)
18. 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)
19. Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1722 times on American Poems.
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower
And casually glance
Would scarcely cause one to suspect
The minor Circumstance
Assisting in the Bright Affair
So intricately done
Then offered as a Butterfly
To the Meridian --
To pack the Bud -- oppose the... (Read full poem)
20. The Hunters in the Snow - written by William Carlos Williams
Read 7347 times on American Poems.
1962
The over-all picture is winter
icy mountains
in the background the return
from the hunt it is toward evening
from the left
sturdy hunters lead in
their pack the inn-sign
hanging from
a broken hinge is a stag a crucifix
between his... (Read full poem)
21. Dream Song 134: Sick at 6 & sick again at 9 - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 750 times on American Poems.
Sick at 6 & sick again at 9
was Henry's gloomy Monday morning oh.
Still he had to lecture.
They waited, his little children, for stricken Henry
to rise up yet once more again and come oh.
They figured he was a fixture,
nuts to their bolds,... (Read full poem)
22. Weeds - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2741 times on American Poems.
White with daisies and red with sorrel
And empty, empty under the sky!—
Life is a quest and love a quarrel—
Here is a place for me to lie.
Daisies spring from damned seeds,
And this red fire that here I see
Is a worthless crop of... (Read full poem)
23. Shirt - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2188 times on American Poems.
I remember once I ran after you and tagged the fluttering
shirt of you in the wind.
Once many days ago I drank a glassful of something and
the picture of you shivered and slid on top of the
stuff.
And again it was nobody else but... (Read full poem)
24. August 17th - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4492 times on American Poems.
Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Take some time to attend to your health.
Surely I will be disquieted
by the hospital, that body zone--
bodies wrapped in elastic bands,
bodies cased in wood or used like telephones,
bodies crucified... (Read full poem)
25. Be Angry At The Sun - written by Robinson Jeffers
From Be Angry At The Sun.
Published in 1941.
Read 1974 times on American Poems.
That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.
Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and... (Read full poem)
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