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The term "back the hour of splender in the grass" has been searched for 72 times on the American Poems site since November 24th, 2004.
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1. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1690 times on American Poems.
HAST never come to thee an hour,
A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
To utter nothingness?(Read full poem)
2. Cocoon above! Cocoon below! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2818 times on American Poems.
Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so
What all the world suspect?
An hour, and gay on every tree
Your secret, perched in ecstasy
Defies imprisonment!
An hour in Chrysalis to pass,
Then gay above receding grass
A Butterfly to... (Read full poem)
3. Bitterness - written by Philip Levine
From A Walk with Tom Jefferson.
Published in 1988.
Read 850 times on American Poems.
Here in February, the fine
dark branches of the almond
begin to sprout tiny clusters
of leaves, sticky to the touch.
Not far off, about the length
of my morning shadow, the grass
is littered with the petals
of the plum that less than
a week... (Read full poem)
4. Tears - written by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Read 1825 times on American Poems.
When I consider Life and its few years --
A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;
A call to battle, and the battle done
Ere the last echo dies within our ears;
A rose choked in the grass; an hour of fears;
The gusts that past a darkening shore do... (Read full poem)
5. Grass - written by Russell Edson
Read 1478 times on American Poems.
The living room is overgrown with grass. It has
come up around the furniture. It stretches through
the dining room, past the swinging door into the
kitchen. It extends for miles and miles into the
walls . . .
There's treasure in grass, things... (Read full poem)
6. Visor’d. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3655 times on American Poems.
A MASK—a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
Concealing her face, concealing her form,
Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
Falling upon her even when she sleeps.(Read full poem)
7. This Hour And What Is Dead - written by Li-Young Lee
Read 1041 times on American Poems.
Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking
through the bare rooms over my head,
opening and closing doors.
What could he be looking for in an empty house?
What could he possibly need there in heaven?
Does he remember his earth, his... (Read full poem)
8. One Hour to Madness and Joy. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4032 times on American Poems.
ONE hour to madness and joy!
O furious! O confine me not!
(What is this that frees me so in storms?
What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
O savage and tender... (Read full poem)
9. A Clear Midnight. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 6486 times on American Poems.
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.(Read full poem)
10. In Darkness - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 3996 times on American Poems.
Must all of worth be travailled for, and those
Life's brightest stars rise from a troubled sea?
Must years go by in sad uncertainty
Leaving us doubting whose the conquering blows,
Are we or Fate the victors? Time which shows
All inner meanings... (Read full poem)
11. 'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2511 times on American Poems.
'Tis good -- the looking back on Grief --
To re-endure a Day --
We thought the Mighty Funeral --
Of All Conceived Joy --
To recollect how Busy Grass
Did meddle -- one by one --
Till all the Grief with Summer -- waved
And none could see the... (Read full poem)
12. An Hour is a Sea - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1912 times on American Poems.
An Hour is a Sea
Between a few, and me --
With them would Harbor be --(Read full poem)
13. Oh Shadow on the Grass, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1197 times on American Poems.
Oh Shadow on the Grass,
Art thou a Step or not?
Go make thee fair my Candidate
My nominated Heart --
Oh Shadow on the Grass
While I delay to guess
Some other thou wilt consecrate --
Oh Unelected Face --(Read full poem)
14. My Mama Moved Among the Days - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1213 times on American Poems.
My Mama moved among the days
like a dreamwalker in a field;
seemed like what she touched was here
seemed like what touched her couldn't hold,
she got us almost through the high grass
then seemed like she turned around and ran
right back... (Read full poem)
15. 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)
16. I Dream’d in a Dream. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 5794 times on American Poems.
I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of
the
earth;
I dream’d that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest;
It was seen... (Read full poem)
17. 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)
18. Its Hour with itself - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1093 times on American Poems.
Its Hour with itself
The Spirit never shows.
What Terror would enthrall the Street
Could Countenance disclose
The Subterranean Freight
The Cellars of the Soul --
Thank God the loudest Place he made
Is license to be still.(Read full poem)
19. Oh, honey of an hour, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2140 times on American Poems.
Oh, honey of an hour,
I never knew thy power,
Prohibit me
Till my minutest dower,
My unfrequented flower,
Deserving be.(Read full poem)
20. The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 4254 times on American Poems.
The happiest day- the happiest hour
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.
Of power! said I? yes! such I ween;
But they have vanish'd long, alas!
The visions of my youth have... (Read full poem)
21. The Stand-Ins - written by Anne Sexton
Read 1607 times on American Poems.
In the dream
the swastika is neon
and flashes like a strobe light
into my eyes, all colors,
all vibrations
and I see the killer in him
and he turns on an oven,
an oven, an oven, an oven,
and on a pie plate he sticks
in my Yellow Star
and then
then... (Read full poem)
22. 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)
23. The Evil Eye - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3650 times on American Poems.
It comes oozing
out of flowers at night,
it comes out of the rain
if a snake looks skyward,
it comes out of chairs and tables
if you don't point at them and say their names.
It comes into your mouth while you sleep,
pressing in like a... (Read full poem)
24. Eel-Grass - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2601 times on American Poems.
No matter what I say,
All that I really love
Is the rain that flattens on the bay,
And the eel-grass in the cove;
The jingle-shells that lie and bleach
At the tide-line, and the trace
Of higher tides along the beach:
Nothing in this place.(Read full poem)
25. The Grass so little has to do - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3110 times on American Poems.
The Grass so little has to do --
A Sphere of simple Green --
With only Butterflies to brood
And Bees to entertain --
And stir all day to pretty Tunes
The Breezes fetch along --
And hold the Sunshine in its lap
And bow to everything --
And thread... (Read full poem)
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