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1. Three times -- we parted -- Breath -- and I -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1537 times on American Poems.
Three times -- we parted -- Breath -- and I --
Three times -- He would not go --
But strove to stir the lifeless Fan
The Waters -- strove to stay.
Three Times -- the Billows tossed me up --
Then caught me -- like a Ball --
Then made Blue faces in... (Read full poem)
2. For this -- accepted Breath - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1776 times on American Poems.
For this -- accepted Breath --
Through it -- compete with Death --
The fellow cannot touch this Crown --
By it -- my title take --
Ah, what a royal sake
To my necessity -- stooped down!
No Wilderness -- can be
Where this attendeth me --
No Desert... (Read full poem)
3. I Have A Rendezvous With Death - written by Alan Seeger
Read 4324 times on American Poems.
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my... (Read full poem)
4. My Friends - written by Terence Winch
From The Great Indoors.
Published in 1995.
Read 1228 times on American Poems.
for Doug Lang
They came here first in a car shaped like a heart
and now they depart as brilliant jazz musicians.
They arrived in full costume, rolling north
through a winter of neon.
Now I watch them leaving me
in a moonlight of... (Read full poem)
5. a light Out) - written by e.e. cummings
From W {ViVa}.
Read 11331 times on American Poems.
a light Out)
& first of all foam
-like hair spatters creasing pillow
next everywhere hidinglyseek
no o god dear wait sh please o no O
3rd Findingest whispers understand
sobs bigly climb what(love being some-
thing possibly more... (Read full poem)
6. Rendezvous - written by Alan Seeger
Read 872 times on American Poems.
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air--
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring... (Read full poem)
7. 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2941 times on American Poems.
'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy!
If I should fail, what poverty!
And yet, as poor as I,
Have ventured all upon a throw!
Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so --
This side the Victory!
Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!
Bliss is, but Bliss, and... (Read full poem)
8. The Breath Of Night - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 1435 times on American Poems.
The moon rises. The red cubs rolling
In the ferns by the rotten oak
Stare over a marsh and a meadow
To the farm's white wisp of smoke.
A spark burns, high in heaven.
Deer thread the blossoming rows
Of the old orchard, rabbits
Hop by the well-curb.... (Read full poem)
9. Final Notions - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 3444 times on American Poems.
It will not be simple, it will not take long
It will take little time, it will take all your thought
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
It will touch through your ribs, it will... (Read full poem)
10. "Truth," said a traveller - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 8038 times on American Poems.
"Truth," said a traveller,
"Is a rock, a mighty fortress;
Often have I been to it,
Even to its highest tower,
From whence the world looks black."
"Truth," said a traveller,
"Is a breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom;
Long have I... (Read full poem)
11. La Regina Avrillouse - written by Ezra Pound
Read 1280 times on American Poems.
Lady of rich allure,
Queen of the spring's embrace,
Your arms are long like boughs of ash,
Mid laugh-broken streams, spirit of rain unsure,
Breath of the poppy flower,
All the wood thy bower
And the hills thy dwelling-place.
This... (Read full poem)
12. Medusa - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1960.
Read 7023 times on American Poems.
Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs,
Eyes rolled by white sticks,
Ears cupping the sea's incoherences,
You house your unnerving head -- God-ball,
Lens of mercies,
Your stooges
Plying their wild cells in my keel's shadow,
Pushing by like... (Read full poem)
13. Five A.M. - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Death & Fame: Last Poems.
Published in 1996.
Read 7738 times on American Poems.
Elan that lifts me above the clouds
into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
Breath transmuted into words
Transmuted back to breath
in one hundred two hundred years
nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries
of cadenced breathing... (Read full poem)
14. Silver Wind - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1582 times on American Poems.
DO you know how the dream looms? how if summer misses one of us the two of us miss summer—
Summer when the lungs of the earth take a long breath for the change to low contralto singing mornings when the green corn leaves first break through the... (Read full poem)
15. Guinevere at Her Fireside - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 4001 times on American Poems.
A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.
Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen.
(And oh, the shirts of linen-lawn,
And all the armor, tagged and tied,
And church on Sundays, dusk and dawn.
And... (Read full poem)
16. The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence - written by W.S. Merwin
From The Moving Target.
Published in 1963.
Read 937 times on American Poems.
Moored to the same ring:
The hour, the darkness and I,
Our compasses hooded like falcons.
Now the memory of you comes aching in
With a wash of broken bits which never left port
In which once we planned voyages,
They come knocking like hearts... (Read full poem)
17. The Reaper and the Flowers - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Voices of the Night.
Read 6965 times on American Poems.
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of... (Read full poem)
19. Flanders - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1775 times on American Poems.
FLANDERS, the name of a place, a country of people,
Spells itself with letters, is written in books.
“Where is Flanders?” was asked one time,
Flanders known only to those who lived there
And milked cows and made cheese and spoke the home... (Read full poem)
20. When I heard at the Close of the Day. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2885 times on American Poems.
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the
capitol,
still it was not a happy night for me that follow’d;
And else, when I carous’d, or when my plans were accomplish’d, still I was not happy;
But the... (Read full poem)
21. None who saw it ever told it - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1309 times on American Poems.
None who saw it ever told it
'Tis as hid as Death
Had for that specific treasure
A departing breath --
Surfaces may be invested
Did the Diamond grow
General as the Dandelion
Would you serve it so?(Read full poem)
22. Men At Thirty - written by Donald Justice
Read 2645 times on American Poems.
Thirty today, I saw
The trees flare briefly like
The candles upon a cake
As the sun went down the sky,
A momentary flash
Yet there was time to wish
Before the break light could die
If I had known what to wish
As once I must have known
Bending above... (Read full poem)
23. Portrait in Georgia - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1825 times on American Poems.
Hair--braided chestnut,
coiled like a lyncher's rope,
Eyes--fagots,
Lips--old scars, or the first red blisters,
Breath--the last sweet scent of cane,
And her slim body, white as the ash
of black flesh after flame. (Read full poem)
24. A Portrait in Georgia - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1326 times on American Poems.
Hair-braided chestnut,
coiled like a lyncher's rope,
Eyes-fagots,
Lips-old scars, or the first red blisters,
Breath-the last sweet scent of cane,
And her slim body, white as the ash
of black flesh after flame. (Read full poem)
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