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The term "back people" has been searched for 34 times on the American Poems site since August 5th, 2005.
Search Results: 12 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. America - written by Robert Creeley
Read 4109 times on American Poems.
America, you ode for reality!
Give back the people you took.
Let the sun shine again
on the four corners of the world
you thought of first but do not
own, or keep like a convenience.
People are your own word, you
invented that locus and... (Read full poem)
2. A Fantasy - written by Louise Gluck
From Ararat.
Published in 1990.
Read 2072 times on American Poems.
I'll tell you something: every day
people are dying. And that's just the beginning.
Every day, in funeral homes, new widows are born,
new orphans. They sit with their hands folded,
trying to decide about this new life.
Then they're in the... (Read full poem)
3. Man in a Window - written by Ralph Angel
From Anxious Latitudes.
Published in 1986.
Read 2227 times on American Poems.
I don’t know man trust is a precious thing
a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get repaid with humiliation
Luckily friends rally to my spiritual defense
I think they’re reminding me
I mean it’s important to me it’s
important to me so I... (Read full poem)
4. Neither Out Far Nor In Deep - written by Robert Frost
From A Further Range.
Published in 1936.
Read 12964 times on American Poems.
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull
The land may vary... (Read full poem)
5. there is a here and... (19) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 9809 times on American Poems.
there is a here and
that here was a
town(and the town is
so aged the ocean
wanders the streets are so
ancient the houses enter the
people are so feeble the feeble go to
sleep if the people sit down)
and this light is so dark the mountains
grow up... (Read full poem)
6. More About People - written by Ogden Nash
Read 5054 times on American Poems.
When people aren't asking question
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that weren't enough to annoy you
They employ you.
Anybody... (Read full poem)
7. Testament - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1470 times on American Poems.
I GIVE the undertakers permission to haul my body
to the graveyard and to lay away all, the head, the
feet, the hands, all: I know there is something left
over they can not put away.
Let the nanny goats and the billy goats of the shanty
people eat... (Read full poem)
8. Old Men - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3373 times on American Poems.
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.(Read full poem)
9. 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)
10. Some People - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3878 times on American Poems.
some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
they'll find me there.
it's Cherub, they'll say, and
they pour wine down my throat
rub my chest
sprinkle me with oils.
then, I'll rise with a roar,
rant, rage... (Read full poem)
11. The House - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1950 times on American Poems.
They are building a house
half a block down
and I sit up here
with the shades down
listening to the sounds,
the hammers pounding in nails,
thack thack thack thack,
and then I hear birds,
and thack thack thack,
and I go to bed,
I pull the covers to... (Read full poem)
12. Three Ghosts - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1899 times on American Poems.
THREE tailors of Tooley Street wrote: We, the People.
The names are forgotten. It is a joke in ghosts.
Cutters or bushelmen or armhole basters, they sat
cross-legged stitching, snatched at scissors, stole each
other thimbles.
Cross-legged,... (Read full poem)
13. The People Upstairs - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3232 times on American Poems.
The people upstairs all practise ballet
Their living room is a bowling alley
Their bedroom is full of conducted tours.
Their radio is louder than yours,
They celebrate week-ends all the week.
When they take a shower, your ceilings leak.
They try to... (Read full poem)
14. The Liars - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 6910 times on American Poems.
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes.
A liar goes in rags.
A liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
And the stonecutters earn a living—with lies—on the tombs... (Read full poem)
15. I Am The People, The Mob - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1900.
Read 4747 times on American Poems.
I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is
done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the
world's food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The... (Read full poem)
16. 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)
17. People - written by Jean Toomer
Read 3783 times on American Poems.
To those fixed on white,
White is white,
To those fixed on black,
It is the same,
And red is red,
Yellow, yellow-
Surely there are such sights
In the many colored world,
Or in the mind.
The strange thing is that
These people never see... (Read full poem)
18. Her sovereign People - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1241 times on American Poems.
Her sovereign People
Nature knows as well
And is as fond of signifying
As if fallible --(Read full poem)
19. People Who Must - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2651 times on American Poems.
I PAINTED on the roof of a skyscraper.
I painted a long while and called it a day’s work.
The people on a corner swarmed and the traffic cop’s whistle never let up all afternoon.
They were the same as bugs, many bugs on their... (Read full poem)
20. Mrs. Kessler - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 444 times on American Poems.
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army,
And he drew six dollars a month as a pension,
And stood on the corner talking politics,
Or sat at home reading Grant's Memoirs;
And I supported the family by washing,
Learning the secrets of all the... (Read full poem)
21. Dream Song 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 683 times on American Poems.
Collating bones: I would have liked to do.
Henry would have been hot at that.
I missed his profession.
As a little boy I always thought
'I'm an archeologist'; who
could be more respected peaceful serious than that?
Hell talkt my brain... (Read full poem)
22. I know of people in the Grave - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1388 times on American Poems.
I know of people in the Grave
Who would be very glad
To know the news I know tonight
If they the chance had had.
'Tis this expands the least event
And swells the scantest deed --
My right to walk upon the Earth
If they this moment had.(Read full poem)
23. Enoch Dunlap - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 408 times on American Poems.
How many times, during the twenty years
I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,
Did you neglect the convention and caucus,
And leave the burden on my hands
Of guarding and saving the people's cause? --
Sometimes because you were ill;
Or... (Read full poem)
24. A god in wrath - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 8588 times on American Poems.
A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With thunderous blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
All people came running.
The man screamed and struggled,
And bit madly at the feet of the god.
The people cried,
"Ah, what a wicked... (Read full poem)
25. Ossawatomie - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1406 times on American Poems.
I DON’T know how he came,
shambling, dark, and strong.
He stood in the city and told men:
My people are fools, my people are young and strong, my people must learn, my people are terrible workers and fighters.
Always he kept on asking: Where... (Read full poem)
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