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The term "o anna why didn" has been searched for 447 times on the American Poems site since November 5th, 2004.
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1. Cupid Caught Napping - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Munsey’s Magazine.
Published in 1898.
Read 405 times on American Poems.
Cupid on a summer day,
Wearied by unceasing play,
In a rose heart sleeping lay,
While, to guard the tricksy fellow,
Close above the fragrant bed
Back and forth a gruff bee sped,
And, to lull the sleepy head,
Played “Zoom! Zoom!” upon his... (Read full poem)
2. Anna Who Was Mad - written by Anne Sexton
Read 14136 times on American Poems.
Anna who was mad,
I have a knife in my armpit.
When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages.
Am I some sort of infection?
Did I make you go insane?
Did I make the sounds go sour?
Did I tell you to climb out the window?
Forgive. Forgive.
Say not I... (Read full poem)
3. The Long Boat - written by Stanley Kunitz
Read 2017 times on American Poems.
When his boat snapped loose
from its mooring, under
the screaking of the gulls,
he tried at first to wave
to his dear ones on shore,
but in the rolling fog
they had already lost their faces.
Too tired even to choose
between jumping and... (Read full poem)
4. Anna Imroth - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 1946 times on American Poems.
CROSS the hands over the breast here--so.
Straighten the legs a little more--so.
And call for the wagon to come and take her home.
Her mother will cry some and so will her sisters and
brothers.
But all of the others got down and they are safe... (Read full poem)
5. Butch Weldy - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1017 times on American Poems.
After I got religion and steadied down
They gave me a job in the canning works,
And every morning I had to fill
The tank in the yard with gasoline,
That fed the blow-fires in the sheds
To heat the soldering irons.
And I mounted a rickety... (Read full poem)
6. Siren - written by Louise Gluck
Read 2352 times on American Poems.
I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress.
I didn't want to go to Chicago with you.
I wanted to marry you, I wanted
Your wife to suffer.
I wanted her life to be like a play
In which all the parts are sad... (Read full poem)
7. Man in a Window - written by Ralph Angel
From Anxious Latitudes.
Published in 1986.
Read 2227 times on American Poems.
I don’t know man trust is a precious thing
a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get repaid with humiliation
Luckily friends rally to my spiritual defense
I think they’re reminding me
I mean it’s important to me it’s
important to me so I... (Read full poem)
8. Sex With A Famous Poet - written by Denise Duhamel
Read 5032 times on American Poems.
I had sex with a famous poet last night
and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I shuddered
because I was married to someone else,
because I wasn't supposed to have been drinking,
because I was in fancy hotel room
I didn't... (Read full poem)
9. For the Record - written by Adrienne Rich
Published in 1984.
Read 6445 times on American Poems.
The clouds and the stars didn't wage this war
the brooks gave no information
if the mountain spewed stones of fire into the river
it was not taking sides
the raindrop faintly swaying under the leaf
had no political opinions
and if here or... (Read full poem)
10. The Hill Wife - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 6297 times on American Poems.
I. LONELINESS
Her Word
One ought not to have to care
So much as you and I
Care when the birds come round the house
To seem to say good-bye;
Or care so much when they come back
With whatever it is they sing;
The truth being we... (Read full poem)
11. Hallelujah: A Sestina - written by Robert Francis
Read 501 times on American Poems.
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.
I wonder they never gave it to a boy
(Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair.
It means Praise God, as well it should since praise
Is what God's for. Why didn't they call my father
Hallelujah instead of... (Read full poem)
12. Says Mister Doojabs - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New York Times.
Published in 1902.
Read 255 times on American Poems.
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day,
I took a ramble up Broadway,
And with my hands behind my back
I strolled along on the streetcar track—
(I walked on the track, for walking there
Gives one, I think, a distinguished air.)
“Well, all... (Read full poem)
13. Snowdrops - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1993.
Read 2525 times on American Poems.
Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.
I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond... (Read full poem)
14. An Almost Made Up Poem - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 5473 times on American Poems.
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small, and the fountain is in France
where you wrote me that last letter and
I answered and never heard from you again.
you used to write insane poems... (Read full poem)
15. 1. Faith - written by Mark Doty
Read 2101 times on American Poems.
"I've been having these
awful dreams, each a little different,
though the core's the same-
we're walking in a field,
Wally and Arden and I, a stretch of grass
with a highway running beside it,
or a path in the woods that opens
onto a... (Read full poem)
16. The Telephone - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 12019 times on American Poems.
'When I was just as far as I could walk
From here today,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head again a flower
I heard you talk.
Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say--
You spoke from that flower on the window sill-
Do... (Read full poem)
17. The Greatest Thing In North America - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 827 times on American Poems.
This is the greatest thing in North America:
Europe is the greatest thing in North America!
High in the sky, dark in the heart, and always there
Among the natural powers of sunlight and of air,
Changing, second by second, shifting and changing the... (Read full poem)
18. Abel Melveny - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 547 times on American Poems.
I bought every kind of machine that's known --
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,
Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers --
And all of them stood in the rain and sun,
Getting rusted, warped and battered,
For I had no sheds to store them... (Read full poem)
19. Shadrach O'Leary - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 464 times on American Poems.
O’Leary was a poet—for a while:
He sang of many ladies frail and fair,
The rolling glory of their golden hair,
And emperors extinguished with a smile.
They foiled his years with many an ancient wile,
And if they limped, O’Leary didn’t care:... (Read full poem)
20. The Little Turtle - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 2310 times on American Poems.
A Recitation for Martha Wakefield, Three Years Old
There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at... (Read full poem)
21. Manufactured Gods - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1456 times on American Poems.
THEY put up big wooden gods.
Then they burned the big wooden gods
And put up brass gods and
Changing their minds suddenly
Knocked down the brass gods and put up
A doughface god with gold earrings.
The poor mutts, the pathetic slant heads,
They... (Read full poem)
22. Dream Song 67: I don't operate often. When I do - written by John Berryman
From 77 Dream Songs.
Published in 1964.
Read 628 times on American Poems.
I don't operate often. When I do,
persons take note.
Nurses look amazed. They pale.
The patient is brought back to life, or so.
The reason I don't do this more (I quote)
is: I have a living to fail—
because of my wife & son—to... (Read full poem)
23. Ezra on the Strike - written by Ezra Pound
Read 3062 times on American Poems.
Wal, Thanksgivin' do be comin' round.
With the price of turkeys on the bound,
And coal, by gum! Thet were just found,
Is surely gettin' cheaper.
The winds will soon begin to howl,
And winter, in its yearly growl,
Across the medders begin... (Read full poem)
24. From a Survivor - written by Adrienne Rich
Published in 1973.
Read 7385 times on American Poems.
The pact that we made was the ordinary pact
of men & women in those days
I don't know who we thought we were
that our personalities
could resist the failures of the race
Lucky or unlucky, we didn't know
the race had failures of that... (Read full poem)
25. Retreating Wind - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1993.
Read 1244 times on American Poems.
When I made you, I loved you.
Now I pity you.
I gave you all you needed:
bed of earth, blanket of blue air--
As I get further away from you
I see you more clearly.
Your souls should have been immense by now,
not what they are,
small... (Read full poem)
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