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The term "o book" has been searched for 31 times on the American Poems site since April 25th, 2007.
Search Results: 0 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Alfred Moir - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 388 times on American Poems.
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,
And rotted down by indifference
And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones?
Why, with all of my errant steps
Did I miss the fate of Willard Fluke?
And why, though I stood at Burchard's bar,
As a sort... (Read full poem)
2. There is no Frigate like a Book - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 8901 times on American Poems.
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry --
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll --
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.(Read full poem)
3. Shut Not Your Doors, &c. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2568 times on American Poems.
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves, yet needed most, I bring;
Forth from the army, the war emerging—a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing—the drift of it... (Read full poem)
4. 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)
5. Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 6478 times on American Poems.
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give me back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,
"What a big book for such a little head!"
Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
And you may watch me purse my mouth and... (Read full poem)
6. The Samantha Sonnets #5 - written by Stanley Gemmell
Read 352 times on American Poems.
--after Emmanuel Hocquard
The house of my friends down the road
burned down.
A child plays with matches
Now he's loose on the town.
You are like that
An absent book.
Flames
my face
Music
my face
You are like that
An absent... (Read full poem)
7. I met a seer - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 5065 times on American Poems.
I met a seer.
He held in his hands
The book of wisdom.
"Sir," I addressed him,
"Let me read."
"Child -- " he began.
"Sir," I said,
"Think not that I am a child,
For already I know much
Of that which you hold.
Aye, much."
He smiled.
Then he opened... (Read full poem)
8. When I read the Book. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 10849 times on American Poems.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man’s life?
And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life;
Why, even I myself, I... (Read full poem)
9. The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 2986 times on American Poems.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader... (Read full poem)
10. Knows how to forget! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2302 times on American Poems.
Knows how to forget!
But could It teach it?
Easiest of Arts, they say
When one learn how
Dull Hearts have died
In the Acquisition
Sacrificed for Science
Is common, though, now --
I went to School
But was not wiser
Globe did not teach it
Nor... (Read full poem)
11. Ray - written by Hayden Carruth
Read 1459 times on American Poems.
How many guys are sitting at their kitchen tables
right now, one-thirty in the morning, this same
time, eating a piece of pie? - that's what I
wondered. A big piece of pie, because I'd just
finished reading Ray's last book. Not good... (Read full poem)
12. No Labor-Saving Machine. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2400 times on American Poems.
NO labor-saving machine,
Nor discovery have I made;
Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage, for America,
Nor literary success, nor intellect—nor book... (Read full poem)
13. So Far and So Far, and on Toward the End. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2316 times on American Poems.
SO far, and so far, and on toward the end,
Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible impulses of me;
But whether I continue beyond this book, to maturity,
Whether I shall dart forth the true rays, the ones that wait unfired,
(Did... (Read full poem)
14. A Book Full of Pictures - written by Charles Simic
From Hotel Insomnia.
Read 1179 times on American Poems.
Father studied theology through the mail
And this was exam time.
Mother knitted. I sat quietly with a book
Full of pictures. Night fell.
My hands grew cold touching the faces
Of dead kings and queens.
There was a black... (Read full poem)
15. Chant for Dark Hours - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3254 times on American Poems.
Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Book shop.
(Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.)
Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Crap game.
(He said he'd come at moonrise, and here's another day!)
Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Bar-room.
(Wait... (Read full poem)
16. Coloring Book - written by Connie Wanek
Read 1417 times on American Poems.
Each picture is heartbreakingly banal,
a kitten and a ball of yarn,
a dog and bone.
The paper is cheap, easily torn.
A coloring book's authority is derived
from its heavy black lines
as unalterable as the ten commandments
within which minor... (Read full poem)
17. The Doctor Will Return - written by Weldon Kees
Read 2548 times on American Poems.
The surgical mask, the rubber teat
Are singed, give off an evil smell.
You seem to weep more now that heat
Spreads everywhere we look.
It says here none of us is well.
The warty spottings on the figurines
Are nothing you would care to claim.
You... (Read full poem)
18. Dream Song 171: Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 676 times on American Poems.
Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or
storm out the message for her only ear
that she is beautiful.
Mention sunsets, be not silent of her eyes
and mouth and other prospects, praise her size,
say her figure is full.
Say her small... (Read full poem)
19. To Thee, Old Cause! - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 6617 times on American Poems.
TO thee, old Cause!
Thou peerless, passionate, good cause!
Thou stern, remorseless, sweet Idea!
Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands!
After a strange, sad war—great war for thee,
(I think all war through time was really fought, and... (Read full poem)
20. Tomes - written by Billy Collins
Read 1750 times on American Poems.
There is a section in my library for death
and another for Irish history,
a few shelves for the poetry of China and Japan,
and in the center a row of imperturbable reference books,
the ones you can turn to anytime,
when the night is going wrong
or... (Read full poem)
21. A Baby In The House - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 2615 times on American Poems.
I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry;
But the husband was tip-toeing 'round like a mouse,
And the good wife was humming a soft lullaby;
And there was a look on the face of the mother,
That I knew... (Read full poem)
22. Learning the Trees - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 1046 times on American Poems.
Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
The language of the trees. That's done indoors,
Out of a book, which now you think of it
Is one of the transformations of a tree.
The words themselves are a delight to learn,
You might be in... (Read full poem)
23. The Gold Key - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4207 times on American Poems.
The speaker in this case
is a middle-aged witch, me-
tangled on my two great arms,
my face in a book
and my mouth wide,
ready to tell you a story or two.
I have come to remind you,
all of you:
Alice, Samuel, Kurt, Eleanor,
Jane, Brian, Maryel,
all... (Read full poem)
24. Yes - written by Denise Duhamel
Read 3370 times on American Poems.
According to Culture Shock:
A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
of Filipinos, when my husband says yes,
he could also mean one of the following:
a.) I don't know.
b.) If you say so.
c.) If it will please you.
d.) I hope I have said yes... (Read full poem)
25. George Sand - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 1827 times on American Poems.
What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
She spent in amorous dalliance
(They do those things so well in France).(Read full poem)
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