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The term "ballad poems" has been searched for 25013 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. Never for Society - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5400 times on American Poems.
Never for Society
He shall seek in vain --
Who His own acquaintance
Cultivate -- Of Men
Wiser Men may weary --
But the Man within
Never knew Satiety --
Better entertain
Than could Border Ballad --
Or Biscayan Hymn --
Neither introduction
Need You... (Read full poem)
2. An Eastern Ballad - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Collected Poems 1947-1980.
Read 12452 times on American Poems.
I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.
I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I... (Read full poem)
3. Wealth - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 5360 times on American Poems.
(For Aline)
From what old ballad, or from what rich frame
Did you descend to glorify the earth?
Was it from Chaucer's singing book you came?
Or did Watteau's small brushes give you birth?
Nothing so exquisite as that slight hand
Could... (Read full poem)
4. Sang from the Heart, Sire, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2668 times on American Poems.
Sang from the Heart, Sire,
Dipped my Beak in it,
If the Tune drip too much
Have a tint too Red
Pardon the Cochineal --
Suffer the Vermillion --
Death is the Wealth
Of the Poorest Bird.
Bear with the Ballad --
Awkward -- faltering --
Death twists... (Read full poem)
5. The Ballad Of A Bachelor - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Read 1823 times on American Poems.
Listen, ladies, while I sing
The ballad of John Henry King.
John Henry was a bachelor,
His age was thirty-three or four.
Two maids for his affection vied,
And each desired to be his bride,
And bravely did they strive to bring
Unto their feet John... (Read full poem)
6. A Western Ballad - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Collected Poems 1947-1980.
Read 11654 times on American Poems.
When I died, love, when I died
my heart was broken in your care;
I never suffered love so fair
as now I suffer and abide
when I died, love, when I died.
When I died, love, when I died
I wearied in an endless maze
that men have walked for... (Read full poem)
7. Heart, not so heavy as mine - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6503 times on American Poems.
Heart, not so heavy as mine
Wending late home --
As it passed my window
Whistled itself a tune --
A careless snatch -- a ballad -- A ditty of the street --
Yet to my irritated Ear
An Anodyne so sweet --
It was as if a Bobolink
Sauntering this... (Read full poem)
8. Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Journals Mid Fifties 1954-1958.
Published in 1955.
Read 5555 times on American Poems.
I came home and found a lion in my room...
[First draft of "The Lion for Real" CP 174-175]
A lion met America
in the road
they stared at each other
two figures on the crossroads in the desert.
America screamed
The lion roared
They leaped at each... (Read full poem)
9. Last Love - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1332 times on American Poems.
The first flower of the spring is not so fair
Or bright, as one the ripe midsummer brings.
The first faint note the forest warbler sings
Is not as rich with feeling, or so rare
As when, full master of his art, the air
Drowns in the liquid... (Read full poem)
10. Historion - written by Ezra Pound
Read 2112 times on American Poems.
No man hath dared to write this thing as yet,
And yet I know, how that the souls of all men great
At times pass athrough us,
And we are melted into them, and are not
Save reflexions of their souls.
Thus am I Dante for a space and am
One... (Read full poem)
11. Masks - written by Ezra Pound
Read 5583 times on American Poems.
These tales of old disguisings, are they not
Strange myths of souls that found themselves among
Unwonted folk that spake an hostile tongue,
Some soul from all the rest who'd not forgot
The star-span acres of a former lot
Where boundless mid... (Read full poem)
12. Ballad of Dead Friends - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 2901 times on American Poems.
As we the withered ferns
By the roadway lying,
Time, the jester, spurns
All our prayers and prying --
All our tears and sighing,
Sorrow, change, and woe --
All our where-and-whying
For friends that come and go.
Life awakes and... (Read full poem)
13. Bridal Ballad - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 8041 times on American Poems.
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he breathed his vow,
I felt my bosom swell-
For the words rang as a knell,... (Read full poem)
14. Ballade at Thirty-Five - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3512 times on American Poems.
This, no song of an ingenue,
This, no ballad of innocence;
This, the rhyme of a lady who
Followed ever her natural bents.
This, a solo of sapience,
This, a chantey of sophistry,
This, the sum of experiments,
I loved them until they loved me.
Decked... (Read full poem)
15. Ballad for Gloom - written by Ezra Pound
Read 3811 times on American Poems.
For God, our God is a gallant foe
That playeth behind the veil.
I have loved my God as a child at heart
That seeketh deep bosoms for rest,
I have loved my God as a maid to man—
But lo, this thing is best:
To love your God as a... (Read full poem)
16. Ballad by the Fire - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 587 times on American Poems.
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
The while a witless masquerade
Of things that only children see
Floats in a mist of light and shade:
They pass, a flimsy cavalcade,
And with a weak, remindful glow,
The falling embers break and fade,
As... (Read full poem)
17. Ballad of Broken Flutes - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 604 times on American Poems.
In dreams I crossed a barren land,
A land of ruin, far away;
Around me hung on every hand
A deathful stillness of decay;
And silent, as in bleak dismay
That song should thus forsaken be,
On that forgotten ground there lay
The broken... (Read full poem)
18. Ballad Of The Despairing Husband - written by Robert Creeley
Read 3162 times on American Poems.
My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I... (Read full poem)
19. Ballad of a Ship - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 590 times on American Poems.
Down by the flash of the restless water
The dim White Ship like a white bird lay;
Laughing at life and the world they sought her,
And out she swung to the silvering bay.
Then off they flew on their roystering way,
And the keen moon fired... (Read full poem)
20. The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator - written by Anne Sexton
Read 10486 times on American Poems.
The end of the affair is always death.
She's my workshop. Slippery eye,
out of the tribe of myself my breath
finds you gone. I horrify
those who stand by. I am fed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.
Finger to finger, now she's mine.
She's not... (Read full poem)
21. TO AN OLD DANISH SONG-BOOK - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems.
Read 2643 times on American Poems.
Welcome, my old friend,
Welcome to a foreign fireside,
While the sullen gales of autumn
Shake the windows.
The ungrateful world
Has, it seems, dealt harshly with thee,
Since, beneath the skies of Denmark,
First I met thee.
There are marks of... (Read full poem)
22. Ballad of the Goodly Fere - written by Ezra Pound
Read 7989 times on American Poems.
Simon Zelotes speaking after the Crucifixion.
Fere=Mate, Companion.
Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O' ships and the open sea.
When they came wi' a host to take Our... (Read full poem)
23. A Ballad of Footmen - written by Amy Lowell
From Men, Women and Ghosts.
Read 1791 times on American Poems.
Now what in the name of the sun and the stars
Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars?
Do men find life so full of humour and joy
That for want of excitement they smash up the toy?
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses
All... (Read full poem)
24. To The Whore Who Took My Poems - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 26271 times on American Poems.
some say we should keep personal remorse from the
poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have
my
paintings too, my best ones; its stifling:
are you trying to crush me out... (Read full poem)
25. if you like my poems let them - written by e.e. cummings
Read 80323 times on American Poems.
if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening,a little behind you
then people will say
"Along this road i saw a princess pass
on her way to meet her lover(it was
toward nightfall)with tall and ignorant servants."(Read full poem)
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