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The term "h w longfellow - day and night" has been searched for 328 times on the American Poems site since September 14th, 2005.
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1. the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls - written by e.e. cummings
Read 10079 times on American Poems.
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
(also, with the church's protestant blessings
daughters, unscented shapeless spirited)
they believe in Christ and Longfellow,both dead,
are invariably... (Read full poem)
2. Letter To Kizer From Seattle - written by Richard Hugo
From 31 Letters and 13 Dreams.
Published in 1977.
Read 466 times on American Poems.
Dear Condor: Much thanks for that telephonic support
from North Carolina when I suddenly went ape
in the Iowa tulips. Lord, but I'm ashamed.
I was afraid, it seemed, according to the doctor
of impending success, winning some poetry prizes
or getting... (Read full poem)
3. A Night -- there lay the Days between - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3065 times on American Poems.
A Night -- there lay the Days between --
The Day that was Before --
And Day that was Behind -- were one --
And now -- 'twas Night -- was here --
Slow -- Night -- that must be watched away --
As Grains upon a shore --
Too imperceptible to note... (Read full poem)
4. Far Rockaway Night till Morning - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1403 times on American Poems.
WHAT can we say of the night?
The fog night, the moon night, the fog moon night last night?
There swept out of the sea a song.
There swept out of the sea—torn white plungers.
There came on the coast wind drive
In the spit of a driven... (Read full poem)
5. Night Movement—New York - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 2122 times on American Poems.
IN the night, when the sea-winds take the city in their arms,
And cool the loud streets that kept their dust noon and afternoon;
In the night, when the sea-birds call to the lights of the city,
The lights that cut on the skyline their name of a... (Read full poem)
6. The Starry Night - written by Anne Sexton
From All My Pretty Ones.
Read 22779 times on American Poems.
That does not keep me from having a terrible need of -- shall I say the word -- religion. Then
I go out at night to paint the stars.
--Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother
The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up... (Read full poem)
7. Shagbark Hickory - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1887 times on American Poems.
IN the moonlight under a shag-bark hickory tree
Watching the yellow shadows melt in hoof-pools,
Listening to the yes and the no of a woman’s hands,
I kept my guess why the night was glad.
The night was lit with a woman’s eyes.
The night... (Read full poem)
8. Good-night - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 4943 times on American Poems.
MANY ways to spell good night.
Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.
They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.
Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue and then go out.
Railroad trains... (Read full poem)
9. Some say goodnight -- at night -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5712 times on American Poems.
Some say goodnight -- at night --
I say goodnight by day --
Good-bye -- the Going utter me --
Goodnight, I still reply --
For parting, that is night,
And presence, simply dawn --
Itself, the purple on the height
Denominated morn.(Read full poem)
10. Hymn to the Night - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Voices of the Night.
Read 6653 times on American Poems.
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!
I felt her presence, by its spell of might,
Stoop o'er me from above;
The calm, majestic presence of... (Read full poem)
11. The Skyscraper Loves Night - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1784 times on American Poems.
ONE by one lights of a skyscraper fling their checkering cross work on the velvet gown of night.
I believe the skyscraper loves night as a woman and brings her playthings she asks for, brings her a velvet gown,
And loves the white of her shoulders... (Read full poem)
12. To The Dead - written by Frank Bidart
Read 3655 times on American Poems.
What I hope (when I hope) is that we'll
see each other again,--
. . . and again reach the VEIN
in which we loved each other . .
It existed. It existed.
There is a NIGHT within the NIGHT,--
. . . for, like the detectives (the Ritz Brothers)
in... (Read full poem)
13. Night Funeral In Harlem - written by Langston Hughes
Read 27619 times on American Poems.
Night funeral
In Harlem:
Where did they get
Them two fine cars?
Insurance man, he did not pay--
His insurance lapsed the other day--
Yet they got a satin box
for his head to lay.
Night funeral
In Harlem:
Who was it... (Read full poem)
14. Dark Night - written by Frank Bidart
Read 3507 times on American Poems.
(John of the Cross)
In a dark night, when the light
burning was the burning of love (fortuitous
night, fated, free,--)
as I stole from my dark house, dark
house that was silent, grave, sleeping,--
by the staircase that was... (Read full poem)
15. On such a night, or such a night, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4476 times on American Poems.
On such a night, or such a night,
Would anybody care
If such a little figure
Slipped quiet from its chair --
So quiet -- Oh how quiet,
That nobody might know
But that the little figure
Rocked softer -- to and fro --
On such a dawn, or such a dawn... (Read full poem)
16. After Parting - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 3262 times on American Poems.
Oh, I have sown my love so wide
That he will find it everywhere;
It will awake him in the night,
It will enfold him in the air.
I set my shadow in his sight
And I have winged it with desire,
That it may be a cloud by day,
And in the night a... (Read full poem)
17. 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)
18. The Olive Garden - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2243 times on American Poems.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
He went up under the gray leaves
All gray and lost in the olive lands
And laid his forehead, gray with dust,
Deep in the dustiness of his hot hands.
After everything this. And this was the end.
-- Now I must go, as I am going... (Read full poem)
19. What the Rattlesnake Said - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 491 times on American Poems.
The moon's a little prairie-dog.
He shivers through the night.
He sits upon his hill and cries
For fear that I will bite.
The sun's a broncho. He's afraid
Like every other thing,
And trembles, morning, noon and night,
Lest I should... (Read full poem)
20. When Night is almost done - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2941 times on American Poems.
When Night is almost done --
And Sunrise grows so near
That we can touch the Spaces --
It's time to smooth the Hair --
And get the Dimples ready --
And wonder we could care
For that old -- faded Midnight --
That frightened -- but an Hour --(Read full poem)
21. But Not To Me - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 2665 times on American Poems.
The April night is still and sweet
With flowers on every tree;
Peace comes to them on quiet feet,
But not to me.
My peace is hidden in his breast
Where I shall never be;
Love comes to-night to all the rest,
But not to me.(Read full poem)
22. Acquainted With the Night - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 31673 times on American Poems.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain --and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to... (Read full poem)
23. The Oldest Child - written by Charles Simic
From A Wedding In Hell.
Published in 1994.
Read 1484 times on American Poems.
The night still frightens you.
You know it is interminable
And of vast, unimaginable dimensions.
"That's because His insomnia is permanent,"
You've read some mystic say.
Is it the point of His schoolboy's compass
That pricks your... (Read full poem)
24. because i love you)last night - written by e.e. cummings
Read 61914 times on American Poems.
because i love you)last night
clothed in sealace
appeared to me
your mind drifting
with chuckling rubbish
of pearl weed coral and stones;
lifted,and(before my
eyes sinking)inward,fled;softly
your face smile breasts gargled
by death:drowned... (Read full poem)
25. 'Tis my first night beneath the Sun - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1504 times on American Poems.
'Tis my first night beneath the Sun
If I should spend it here --
Above him is too low a height
For his Barometer
Who Airs of expectation breathes
And takes the Wind at prime --
But Distance his Delights confides
To those who visit him --(Read full poem)
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