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The term "back stab from a friend" has been searched for 131 times on the American Poems site since February 25th, 2005.
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1. How Solemn as One by One. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1820 times on American Poems.
HOW solemn, as one by one,
As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty—as the men file by where I stand;
As the faces, the masks appear—as I glance at the faces, studying the masks;
(As I glance upward out of this page, studying you,... (Read full poem)
3. I should not dare to leave my friend, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4760 times on American Poems.
I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because -- because if he should die
While I was gone -- and I -- too late --
Should reach the Heart that wanted me --
If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted -- hunted so -- to see --
And could not bear to... (Read full poem)
4. My friend must be a Bird - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 10163 times on American Poems.
My friend must be a Bird --
Because it flies!
Mortal, my friend must be,
Because it dies!
Barbs has it, like a Bee!
Ah, curious friend!
Thou puzzlest me!(Read full poem)
5. My friend attacks my friend! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5962 times on American Poems.
My friend attacks my friend!
Oh Battle picturesque!
Then I turn Soldier too,
And he turns Satirist!
How martial is this place!
Had I a mighty gun
I think I'd shoot the human race
And then to glory run!(Read full poem)
6. Mascots - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1836 times on American Poems.
I WILL keep you and bring hands to hold you against a great hunger.
I will run a spear in you for a great gladness to die with.
I will stab you between the ribs of the left side with a great love worth remembering.(Read full poem)
7. One Joy of so much anguish - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1312 times on American Poems.
One Joy of so much anguish
Sweet nature has for me
I shun it as I do Despair
Or dear iniquity --
Why Birds, a Summer morning
Before the Quick of Day
Should stab my ravished spirit
With Dirks of Melody
Is part of an inquiry
That will receive... (Read full poem)
8. Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1779 times on American Poems.
Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you --
Bare your Jessamine -- to the storm --
And she will fling her maddest perfume --
Haply -- your Summer night to Charm --
Stab the Bird -- that built in your bosom --
Oh, could you catch her last Refrain... (Read full poem)
10. 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)
11. A Fence - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 4586 times on American Poems.
NOW the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
workmen are beginning the fence.
The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.
As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut... (Read full poem)
12. Mary McNeely - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 424 times on American Poems.
Passer-by,
To love is to find your own soul
Through the soul of the beloved one.
When the beloved one withdraws itself from your soul
Then you have lost your soul.
It is written: "I have a friend,
But my sorrow has no friend."
Hence my long... (Read full poem)
13. The Dark House - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 870 times on American Poems.
Where a faint light shines alone,
Dwells a Demon I have known.
Most of you had better say
"The Dark House," and go your way.
Do not wonder if I stay.
For I know the Demon's eyes
And their lure that never dies.
Banish all your fond... (Read full poem)
14. Rotgut - written by Brooks Haxton
From Uproar.
Read 298 times on American Poems.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor
the moon by night. Psalm 121
On a hillside scattered with temples broken
under the dogday sun, my friend and I drank
local wine at nightfall and ate grapeleaves
in goat-yogurt glaze.... (Read full poem)
15. Accomplished Facts - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1871 times on American Poems.
EVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friend
the first arbutus bud in her garden.
In a last will and testament Andrew Jackson
remembered a friend with the gift of George
Washington’s pocket spy-glass.
Napoleon too, in a last testament,... (Read full poem)
16. Frankenstein - written by Edward Field
Read 1494 times on American Poems.
The monster has escaped from the dungeon
where he was kept by the Baron,
who made him with knobs sticking out from each side of his neck
where the head was attached to the body
and stitching all over
where parts of cadavers were sewed... (Read full poem)
17. Lay It Away - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 368 times on American Poems.
We will lay our summer away, my friend,
So tenderly lay it away.
It was bright and sweet to the very end,
Like one long, golden day.
Nothing sweeter could come to me,
Nothing sweeter to you.
We will lay it away, and let it be,
Hid from... (Read full poem)
18. Recorders Ages Hence. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1690 times on American Poems.
RECORDERS ages hence!
Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior—I will tell you what to
say
of
me;
Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
The friend, the lover’s portrait, of... (Read full poem)
19. Answered - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 598 times on American Poems.
Good-bye – Yes, I am going,
Sudden? Well, you are right.
But a startling truth came home to me
With sudden force last night.
What is it? shall I tell you? –
Nay, that is why I go.
I am running away from the battlefield,
Turning my back on the... (Read full poem)
20. 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)
21. Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 2890 times on American Poems.
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground.
Why do you stand, expectant?
Do you hope to see it
In one of your withered days?
With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The triumphal march of justice?
Do not wait, friend!
Take your white beard
And your... (Read full poem)
22. August 8th - written by Anne Sexton
Read 5193 times on American Poems.
And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe.
Listen here. I've never played it safe
in spite of what the critics say.
Ask my imaginary brother, that waif,
that childhood best friend who comes to play
dress-up and stick-up and jacks and... (Read full poem)
23. Death is potential to that Man - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2088 times on American Poems.
Death is potential to that Man
Who dies -- and to his friend --
Beyond that -- unconspicuous
To Anyone but God --
Of these Two -- God remembers
The longest -- for the friend --
Is integral -- and therefore
Itself dissolved -- of God --(Read full poem)
24. This Life - written by Grace Paley
From Begin Again, Collected Poems.
Published in 2001.
Read 2139 times on American Poems.
My friend tells me
a man in my house jumped off the roof
the roof is the eighth floor of this building
the roof door was locked how did he manage?
his girlfriend had said goodbye I'm leaving
he was 22
his mother and father were hurrying
at that... (Read full poem)
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