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The term "back to africa" has been searched for 27 times on the American Poems site since October 4th, 2005.
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1. On Being Brought from Africa to America - written by Phillis Wheatley
Read 5265 times on American Poems.
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a... (Read full poem)
2. One Being Brought From Africa To America - written by Phillis Wheatley
Read 1327 times on American Poems.
'TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought now knew,
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
'Their colour is a... (Read full poem)
3. Homework - written by Allen Ginsberg
Read 17163 times on American Poems.
Homage Kenneth Koch
If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran
I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap,
scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in
the jungle,
I'd wash the Amazon river and clean... (Read full poem)
4. The Rival - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1961.
Read 5205 times on American Poems.
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Both of you are great light borrowers.
Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected,
And your first gift is making stone... (Read full poem)
5. 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)
7. Nocturne of the Wharves - written by Arna Bontemps
Read 2853 times on American Poems.
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom
against the dock with helpless prows:
these little ships that are too worn for sailing
front the wharf but do not rest at all.
Tugging at the dim gray wharf they think
no doubt of China and of bright... (Read full poem)
8. You, Andrew Marvell - written by Archibald MacLeish
Read 2125 times on American Poems.
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever... (Read full poem)
9. Last Words - written by Philip Levine
Read 771 times on American Poems.
If the shoe fell from the other foot
who would hear? If the door
opened onto a pure darkness
and it was no dream? If your life
ended the way a book ends
with half a blank page and the survivors
gone off to Africa or madness?
If my life ended... (Read full poem)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. 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)
14. February: Thinking of Flowers - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2581 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)
15. 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)
16. 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)
17. Hate - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3936 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)
18. 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)
19. 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)
20. Back Yard - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2820 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)
21. 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)
22. The ones that disappeared are back - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1259 times on American Poems.
The ones that disappeared are back
The Phoebe and the Crow
Precisely as in March is heard
The curtness of the Jay --
Be this an Autumn or a Spring
My wisdom loses way
One side of me the nuts are ripe
The other side is May.(Read full poem)
23. A Curse Against Elegies - written by Anne Sexton
Read 6057 times on American Poems.
Oh, love, why do we argue like this?
I am tired of all your pious talk.
Also, I am tired of all the dead.
They refuse to listen,
so leave them alone.
Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.
Everyone was always to blame:
the... (Read full poem)
24. Knee Song - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2889 times on American Poems.
Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen and
yes my darling a dot
on the fathometer is
tinkerbelle with her cough
and twice I will give up my
honor and stars will stick
like tacks in the night
yes oh yes yes yes... (Read full poem)
25. Smiling back from Coronation - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1471 times on American Poems.
Smiling back from Coronation
May be Luxury --
On the Heads that started with us --
Being's Peasantry --
Recognizing in Procession
Ones We former knew --
When Ourselves were also dusty --
Centuries ago --
Had the Triumph no Conviction
Of how many... (Read full poem)
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