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The term "o boy of the west" has been searched for 124 times on the American Poems site since November 15th, 2005.
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1. The Sun in reigning to the West - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1284 times on American Poems.
The Sun in reigning to the West
Makes not as much of sound
As Cart of man in road below
Adroitly turning round
That Whiffletree of Amethyst(Read full poem)
2. These held their Wick above the West -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1054 times on American Poems.
These held their Wick above the West --
Till when the Red declined --
Or how the Amber aided it --
Defied to be defined --
Then waned without disparagement
In a dissembling Hue
That would not let the Eye decide
Did it abide or no --(Read full poem)
3. Canis Major - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 4962 times on American Poems.
The great Overdog
That heavenly beast
With a star in one eye
Gives a leap in the east.
He dances upright
All the way to the west
And never once drops
On his forefeet to rest.
I'm a poor underdog,
But to-night I will bark
With the great Overdog
That... (Read full poem)
4. To the East and to the West. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2285 times on American Poems.
TO the East and to the West;
To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
To the Kanadian of the North—to the Southerner I love;
These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself—the germs are in all men;
I believe the main... (Read full poem)
5. Valley Song - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1326 times on American Poems.
THE SUNSET swept
To the valley’s west, you remember.
The frost was on.
A star burnt blue.
We were warm, you remember,
And counted the rings on a moon.
The sunset swept
To the valley’s west
And was gone in a big dark door of... (Read full poem)
6. Moonset - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2964 times on American Poems.
LEAVES of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west.
Moon sand on the canal doubles the changing pictures.
The moon’s good-by ends pictures.
The west is empty. All else is empty. No moon-talk at all now.
Only dark listening to... (Read full poem)
7. Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1425 times on American Poems.
SMOKE of autumn is on it all.
The streamers loosen and travel.
The red west is stopped with a gray haze.
They fill the ash trees, they wrap the oaks,
They make a long-tailed rider
In the pocket of the first, the earliest evening star.. .... (Read full poem)
8. Bereft - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 10548 times on American Poems.
Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and day was past.
Somber clouds in the west were... (Read full poem)
9. Early Moon - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2832 times on American Poems.
THE BABY moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe, sails and sails in the Indian west.
A ring of silver foxes, a mist of silver foxes, sit and sit around the Indian moon.
One yellow star for a runner, and rows of blue stars for more runners, keep a... (Read full poem)
10. Wind - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 4706 times on American Poems.
He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea,
He steals the down from the honeybee,
He makes the forest trees rustle and sing,
He twirls my kite till it breaks its string.
Laughing, dancing, sunny wind,
Whistling, howling, rainy wind,
North,... (Read full poem)
11. Facing West from California’s Shores. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3375 times on American Poems.
FACING west, from California’s shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations,
look afar,
Look off the shores of my Western Sea—the circle... (Read full poem)
12. The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Published in 1905.
Read 303 times on American Poems.
A sinner was old Captain Dan;
His wives guv him no rest:
He had one wife to East Skiddaw
And one to Skiddaw West.
Now Ann Eliza was the name
Of her at East Skiddaw;
She was the most cantankerous
Female you ever saw.
I don’t know... (Read full poem)
13. Buttons - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 3902 times on American Poems.
I HAVE been watching the war map slammed up for
advertising in front of the newspaper office.
Buttons--red and yellow buttons--blue and black buttons--
are shoved back and forth across the map.
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
Climbs a... (Read full poem)
14. A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street - written by Amy Clampitt
From Best American Poetry 1994, Touchstone Press.
Published in 1994.
Read 952 times on American Poems.
While the sun stops, or
seems to, to define a term
for the indeterminable,
the human aspect, here
in the West Village, spindles
to a mutilated dazzle—
niched shards of solitude
embedded in these brownstone
walkups such that the Hudson
at the... (Read full poem)
15. A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 3677 times on American Poems.
The difficulty to think at the end of day,
When the shapeless shadow covers the sun
And nothing is left except light on your fur—
There was the cat slopping its milk all day,
Fat cat, red tongue, green mind, white milk
And August the most... (Read full poem)
16. Immigrants - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 6894 times on American Poems.
No ship of all that under sail or steam
Have gathered people to us more and more
But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream
Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.(Read full poem)
17. My Comrade - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 443 times on American Poems.
Out from my window westward
I turn full oft my face;
But the mountains rebuke the vision
That would encompass space;
They lift their lofty foreheads
To the kiss of the clouds above,
And ask, "With all our glory,
Can we not win your... (Read full poem)
18. Whitelight - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1913.
Read 3240 times on American Poems.
YOUR whitelight flashes the frost to-night
Moon of the purple and silent west.
Remember me one of your lovers of dreams.(Read full poem)
19. Hannibal - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 7351 times on American Poems.
Was there even a cause too lost,
Ever a cause that was lost too long,
Or that showed with the lapse of time to vain
For the generous tears of youth and song?(Read full poem)
20. Devotion - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 12491 times on American Poems.
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean--
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.(Read full poem)
21. From My Last Years. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3634 times on American Poems.
FROM my last years, last thoughts I here bequeath,
Scatter’d and dropt, in seeds, and wafted to the West,
Through moisture of Ohio, prairie soil of Illinois—through Colorado, California air,
For Time to germinate fully.(Read full poem)
22. Lodged - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 3338 times on American Poems.
The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.(Read full poem)
23. A Minor Bird - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 6242 times on American Poems.
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of... (Read full poem)
24. When One has given up One's life - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1974 times on American Poems.
When One has given up One's life
The parting with the rest
Feels easy, as when Day lets go
Entirely the West
The Peaks, that lingered last
Remain in Her regret
As scarcely as the Iodine
Upon the Cataract.(Read full poem)
25. Fireflies in the Garden - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 10347 times on American Poems.
Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't... (Read full poem)
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