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The term "back pains" has been searched for 31 times on the American Poems site since June 27th, 2005.
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1. 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)
3. Delilah - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 2136 times on American Poems.
In the midnight of darkness and terror,
When I would grope nearer to God,
With my back to a record of error
And the highway of sin I have trod,
There comes to me shapes I would banish –
The shapes of the deeds I have done;
And I pray and I... (Read full poem)
4. Frustration - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 6400 times on American Poems.
If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folk who give me pains;
Or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moments pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.
But I have no lethal... (Read full poem)
5. Beggars And Kings - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 915 times on American Poems.
In the evening
all the hours that weren't used
are emptied out
and the beggars are waiting to gather them up
to open them
to find the sun in each one
and teach it its beggar's name
and sing to it It is well
through the night
but each of us
has his... (Read full poem)
6. A Pastoral - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Judge.
Published in 1897.
Read 482 times on American Poems.
Just as the sun was setting
Back of the Western hills
Grandfather stood by the window
Eating the last of his pills.
And Grandmother, by the cupboard,
Knitting, heard him say:
“I ought to have went to the village
To fetch some more pills... (Read full poem)
7. Upon Some Distemper of Body - written by Anne Bradstreet
Read 752 times on American Poems.
In anguish of my heart replete with woes,
And wasting pains, which best my body knows,
In tossing slumbers on my wakeful bed,
Bedrenched with tears that flowed from mournful head,
Till nature had exhausted all her store,
Then eyes lay dry,... (Read full poem)
8. Birches - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 73705 times on American Poems.
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with... (Read full poem)
9. Says Mister Doojabs - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New York Times.
Published in 1902.
Read 255 times on American Poems.
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day,
I took a ramble up Broadway,
And with my hands behind my back
I strolled along on the streetcar track—
(I walked on the track, for walking there
Gives one, I think, a distinguished air.)
“Well, all... (Read full poem)
10. Fame Speaks - written by e.e. cummings
Read 13418 times on American Poems.
Stand forth,John Keats! On earth thou knew'st me not;
Steadfast through all the storms of passion,thou,
True to thy muse,and virgin to thy vow;
Resigned,if name with ashes were forgot,
So thou one arrow in the gold had'st shot!
I never placed my... (Read full poem)
11. When they come back -- if Blossoms do -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2537 times on American Poems.
When they come back -- if Blossoms do --
I always feel a doubt
If Blossoms can be born again
When once the Art is out --
When they begin, if Robins may,
I always had a fear
I did not tell, it was their last Experiment
Last Year,
When it is May, if... (Read full poem)
12. The Whistling Girl - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 3436 times on American Poems.
Back of my back, they talk of me,
Gabble and honk and hiss;
Let them batten, and let them be-
Me, I can sing them this:
"Better to shiver beneath the stars,
Head on a faithless breast,
Than peer at the night through rusted bars,
And share an... (Read full poem)
13. I Go Back To The House For A Book - written by Billy Collins
Read 2610 times on American Poems.
I turn around on the gravel
and go back to the house for a book,
something to read at the doctor's office,
and while I am inside, running the finger
of inquisition along a shelf,
another me that did not bother
to go back to the house for a... (Read full poem)
14. Eurydice - written by H. D.
Read 5778 times on American Poems.
Why did you turn back,
that hell should be reinhabited
of myself thus
swept into nothingness?
Why did you turn?
why did you glance back?
So you have swept me back--
I who could have walked with the live souls
above the earth.
I who could have... (Read full poem)
15. February: Thinking of Flowers - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2580 times on American Poems.
Now wind torments the field,
turning the white surface back
on itself, back and back on itself,
like an animal licking a wound.
Nothing but white--the air, the light;
only one brown milkweed pod
bobbing in the gully, smallest
brown boat on... (Read full poem)
16. I Shall Come Back - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 4076 times on American Poems.
I shall come back without fanfaronade
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply;
But, trembling, slip from cool Eternity-
A mild and most bewildered little shade.
I shall not make sepulchral midnight raid,
But softly come where I had longed to be
In... (Read full poem)
17. Guinevere at Her Fireside - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 4000 times on American Poems.
A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.
Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen.
(And oh, the shirts of linen-lawn,
And all the armor, tagged and tied,
And church on Sundays, dusk and dawn.
And... (Read full poem)
18. Not To Keep - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 12565 times on American Poems.
They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying... And she could have him. And before
She could be sure there was no hidden ill
Under the formal writing, he was in her sight,
Living. They gave him back to her alive
How else? They are not... (Read full poem)
19. Thanksgiving - written by Mac Hammond
From Mappamundi: New and Selected Poems.
Published in 1989.
Read 593 times on American Poems.
The man who stands above the bird, his knife
Sharp as a Turkish scimitar, first removes
A thigh and leg, half the support
On which the turkey used to stand. This
Leg and thigh he sets on an extra
Plate. All his weight now on
One leg, he... (Read full poem)
20. Hate - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3935 times on American Poems.
ONE man killed another. The saying between them had been “I’d give you the shirt off my back.”
The killer wept over the dead. The dead if he looks back knows the killer was sorry. It was a shot in one second of hate out of ten... (Read full poem)
21. Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 4255 times on American Poems.
Daily dawns another day;
I must up, to make my way.
Though I dress and drink and eat,
Move my fingers and my feet,
Learn a little, here and there,
Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,
Hear a song, or watch a stage,
Leave some words upon a page,
Claim... (Read full poem)
22. Abstract People in Pink Castles - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From Just a Dancing Bear Looking for a Star.
Published in 2000.
Read 2270 times on American Poems.
Abstract people visiting sand castles
in times pink void.
The world turns from idea to idea.
Colliding atoms, the philosophers hidden influence's.
Those who are connected by spirit,
transcended through purgatory,
looking to find a time... (Read full poem)
23. The Death Of Santa Claus - written by Charles Webb
From Reading The Water.
Published in 2001.
Read 460 times on American Poems.
He's had the chest pains for weeks,
but doctors don't make house
calls to the North Pole,
he's let his Blue Cross lapse,
blood tests make him faint,
hospital gown always flap
open, waiting rooms upset
his stomach, and it's only
indigestion anyway,... (Read full poem)
24. The Ghost - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 1760 times on American Poems.
I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart was full of my new love's glory,
My eyes were laughing and unafraid.
I met one who had loved me madly
And told his love for all to hear --
But we talked of a... (Read full poem)
25. Back Yard - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2819 times on American Poems.
Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain to-night.
An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an
accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next... (Read full poem)
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