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2. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 25293 times on American Poems.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind --(Read full poem)
3. Writing - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2257 times on American Poems.
often it is the only
thing
between you and
impossibility.
no drink,
no woman's love,
no wealth
can
match it.
nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.
the hordes from
closing in.
it blasts the
darkness.
writing is... (Read full poem)
4. The Partial Explanation - written by Charles Simic
From Selected Early Poems.
Published in 1999.
Read 1222 times on American Poems.
Seems like a long time
Since the waiter took my order.
Grimy little luncheonette,
The snow falling outside.
Seems like it has grown darker
Since I last heard the kitchen door
Behind my back
Since I last noticed
Anyone pass on the street.
A glass... (Read full poem)
5. The farthest Thunder that I heard - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2161 times on American Poems.
The farthest Thunder that I heard
Was nearer than the Sky
And rumbles still, though torrid Noons
Have lain their missiles by --
The Lightning that preceded it
Struck no one but myself --
But I would not exchange the Bolt
For all the rest of Life... (Read full poem)
6. The Woman and the Wife - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 684 times on American Poems.
I--THE EXPLANATION
"You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong.
This we can say, the rest we do not say;
Nor do I let you throw yourself away
Because you love me. Let us both be strong,
And we shall find in sorrow, before long,... (Read full poem)
7. Late Aubade & Explanation - written by Kate Northrop
From Back Through Interruption.
Published in 2002.
Read 451 times on American Poems.
Once in a field, in a wide rising stretch of paintbrush
& purple vetch, we stuck down
a tent, like punctuation, and drank through the evening
our bottle of bad wine. When you looked up,
the weather was holding: a few breezes,
a full moon... (Read full poem)
8. The New Ergonomics - written by James Tate
Read 2302 times on American Poems.
The new ergonomics were delivered
just before lunchtime
so we ignored them.
Without revealing the particulars
let me just say that
lunch was most satisfying.
Jack and Roberta went with
the corned beef for a change.
Jack believes in alien... (Read full poem)
9. All Distance - written by Erin Belieu
Read 772 times on American Poems.
Writing from Boston, where sky is simply
property, a flourish topping crowds
of condos and historic real estate,
I'm trying to imagine blue sky:
the first time, where it happened,
what I was becoming. Being taken there
by car, from a town so... (Read full poem)
10. What He Thought - written by Heather McHugh
Read 891 times on American Poems.
We were supposed to do a job in Italy
and, full of our feeling for
ourselves (our sense of being
Poets from America) we went
from Rome to Fano, met
the Mayor, mulled a couple
matters over. The Italian literati seemed
bewildered by the... (Read full poem)
11. Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 655 times on American Poems.
I. THE LION
The Lion is a kingly beast.
He likes a Hindu for a feast.
And if no Hindu he can get,
The lion-family is upset.
He cuffs his wife and bites her ears
Till she is nearly moved to tears.
Then some explorer finds the den
And all... (Read full poem)
12. Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4315 times on American Poems.
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MANHATTAN’S streets I saunter’d, pondering,
On time, space, reality—on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence.
2
After all, the last explanation remains to be made about prudence;
Little and large alike drop quietly... (Read full poem)
13. Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1744 times on American Poems.
RUM tiddy um,
tiddy um,
tiddy um tum tum.
My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves.
I feel like tickling you under the chin—honey—and a-asking: Why Does a Chicken Cross the Road?
When the hens are a-laying eggs,... (Read full poem)
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