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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)
2. 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)
3. Summer Of The Grandmothers - written by Susan Kelly-DeWitt
From Poetry, August 2002.
Published in 2002.
Read 644 times on American Poems.
They come back in their white
shifts, their ruffled shawls of salt
white, the way the dead always return
when you need them the most—
when it's too hot to do anything
but picture the worst—the Bomb
finally fallen, the world... (Read full poem)
4. O Tan-faced Prairie Boy. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1867 times on American Poems.
O TAN-FACED prairie-boy!
Before you came to camp, came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food—till at last, among the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look’d on each other,... (Read full poem)
5. Sestina: Altaforte - written by Ezra Pound
Read 9587 times on American Poems.
LOQUITUR: En Bertans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell
for that he was a stirrer up of strife. Eccovi! Judge ye! Have I dug
him up again? The scene is at his castle, Altaforte. "Papiols" is his
jongleur. "The Leopard," the device of... (Read full poem)
6. The Too-Late Born - written by Archibald MacLeish
Read 1248 times on American Poems.
We too, we too, descending once again
The hills of our own land, we too have heard
Far off --- Ah, que ce cor a longue haleine ---
The horn of Roland in the passages of Spain,
The first, the second blast, the failing third,
And with the third turned... (Read full poem)
7. Dream Song 111: I miss him. When I get back to camp - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 813 times on American Poems.
I miss him. When I get back to camp
I'll dig him up. Well, he can prop & watch,
can't he, pink or blue,
and I will talk to him. I miss him. Slams,
grand or any, aren't for the tundra much.
One face-card will do.
It's marvellous how four... (Read full poem)
8. A Challenge To The Dark - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4558 times on American Poems.
shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ass
shot like a flower in the dance
amazing how death wins hands down
amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of life
amazing how laughter has been drowned out
amazing how viciousness... (Read full poem)
9. The History Of One Tough Motherfucker - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4530 times on American Poems.
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and
terrorized
a white cross-eyed tailless cat
I took him in and fed him and he stayed
grew to trust me until a friend drove up the driveway
and ran him over
I took what was left to a vet who... (Read full poem)
10. Man And Wife - written by Robert Lowell
From Selected Poems.
Read 5945 times on American Poems.
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
the rising sun in war paint dyes us red;
in broad daylight her gilded bed-posts shine,
abandoned, almost Dionysian.
At last the trees are green on Marlborough Street,
blossoms on our magnolia... (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)
14. Cirque - written by Stanley Gemmell
Read 695 times on American Poems.
cirque: (surk)n. [Fr.Lat. circus, circle.]
A steep hollow, often
containing a small lake, at the upper end of a mountain valley.
to have tried in vain to catch the marble eyes of statues
and to stir
unconsciously, like a river... (Read full poem)
15. 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)
16. 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)
17. Courage - written by Anne Sexton
Read 26562 times on American Poems.
It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
The first spanking when your heart
went on a journey all alone.
When they called you crybaby
or poor... (Read full poem)
18. 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)
19. 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)
20. 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)
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. A Star in a Stoneboat - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 5601 times on American Poems.
For Lincoln MacVeagh
Never tell me that not one star of all
That slip from heaven at night and softly fall
Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.
Some laborer found one faded and stone-cold,
And saving that its weight suggested... (Read full poem)
23. Euclid - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 3092 times on American Poems.
OLD Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and circumference,
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From... (Read full poem)
24. The Day-Breakers - written by Arna Bontemps
Read 7462 times on American Poems.
We are not come to wage a strife
With swords upon this hill,
It is not wise to waste the life
Against a stubborn will.
Yet would we die as some have done.
Beating a way for the rising sun.(Read full poem)
25. The wind drew off - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1872 times on American Poems.
The wind drew off
Like hungry dogs
Defeated of a bone --
Through fissures in
Volcanic cloud
The yellow lightning shone --
The trees held up
Their mangled limbs
Like animals in pain --
When Nature falls upon herself
Beware an Austrian.(Read full poem)
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