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The term "o butcher spare this little calf" has been searched for 293 times on the American Poems site since November 2nd, 2004.
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1. Immolated - written by Herman Melville
Read 1975 times on American Poems.
Children of my happier prime,
When One yet lived with me, and threw
Her rainbow over life and time,
Even Hope, my bride, and mother to you!
O, nurtured in sweet pastoral air,
And fed on flowers and light and dew
Of morning meadows -spare, ah,... (Read full poem)
2. Healed of My Hurt - written by Herman Melville
Read 1574 times on American Poems.
Children of my happier prime,
When One yet lived with me, and threw
Her rainbow over life and time,
Even Hope, my bride, and mother to you!
O, nurtured in sweet pastoral air,
And fed on flowers and light and dew
Of morning meadows -spare, ah,... (Read full poem)
3. The Days that we can spare - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1973 times on American Poems.
The Days that we can spare
Are those a Function die
Or Friend or Nature -- stranded then
In our Economy
Our Estimates a Scheme --
Our Ultimates a Sham --
We let go all of Time without
Arithmetic of him --(Read full poem)
4. Metaphors - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems.
Published in 1959.
Read 93956 times on American Poems.
I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in... (Read full poem)
5. The Pasture - written by Robert Frost
From North of Boston.
Published in 1914.
Read 9557 times on American Poems.
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so... (Read full poem)
6. Reuben Bright - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 3499 times on American Poems.
Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did right),
I would not have you think that Reuben Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with... (Read full poem)
7. Chicago - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 22795 times on American Poems.
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders;
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your
painted women... (Read full poem)
8. Love Will Wane - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 459 times on American Poems.
When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain
Of all speech that tells me so -
Spare me words, for I shall know,
By the half-averted eyes,
By the breast that no more sighs
By the rapture I shall miss
From your... (Read full poem)
9. Theory - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 2811 times on American Poems.
Into love and out again,
Thus I went, and thus I go.
Spare your voice, and hold your pen-
Well and bitterly I know
All the songs were ever sung,
All the words were ever said;
Could it be, when I was young,
Some one dropped me on my head?(Read full poem)
10. Calverly's - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 1553 times on American Poems.
We go no more to Calverly's,
For there the lights are few and low;
And who are there to see by them,
Or what they see, we do not know.
Poor strangers of another tongue
May now creep in from anywhere,
And we, forgotten, be no more
Than... (Read full poem)
11. Halloween - written by Mac Hammond
From Mappamundi: New and Selected Poems.
Published in 1989.
Read 773 times on American Poems.
The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top
And carves out the round stemmed lid,
The hole of which allows the hand to go
In to pull the gooey mess inside, out -
The walls scooped clean with a spoon.
A grim design decided on, that... (Read full poem)
13. Interregnum - written by Weldon Kees
Read 1566 times on American Poems.
Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant,
And leave him stinking in the square.
Torture the chancellor. Leave the ambassador
Strung by his thumbs from the pleasant
Embassy wall, where the vines were.
Then drill your hogs and sons for another war.
Fire... (Read full poem)
14. Adam Weirauch - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 382 times on American Poems.
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour.
I lost many friends, much time and money
Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor Whedon
Denounced as the candidate of gamblers and anarchists.
Then Armour started to ship dressed meat to Spoon River,
Forcing... (Read full poem)
15. Confirming All who analyze - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2117 times on American Poems.
Confirming All who analyze
In the Opinion fair
That Eloquence is when the Heart
Has not a Voice to spare --(Read full poem)
16. We'll pass without the parting - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2804 times on American Poems.
We'll pass without the parting
So to spare
Certificate of Absence --
Deeming where
I left Her I could find Her
If I tried --
This way, I keep from missing
Those that died.(Read full poem)
17. When I count the seeds - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4820 times on American Poems.
When I count the seeds
That are sown beneath,
To bloom so, bye and bye --
When I con the people
Lain so low,
To be received as high --
When I believe the garden
Mortal shall not see --
Pick by faith its blossom
And avoid its Bee,
I can spare this... (Read full poem)
18. The Apple Tree - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 5673 times on American Poems.
When first we saw the apple tree
The boughs were dark and straight,
But never grief to give had we,
Though Spring delayed so late.
When last I came away from there
The boughs were heavy hung,
But little grief had I to spare
For Summer, perished... (Read full poem)
19. Were natural mortal lady - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2181 times on American Poems.
Were natural mortal lady
Who had so little time
To pack her trunk and order
The great exchange of clime --
How rapid, how momentous --
What exigencies were --
But nature will be ready
And have an hour to spare.
To make some trifle fairer
That was... (Read full poem)
20. Ape - written by Russell Edson
Published in 1976.
Read 3208 times on American Poems.
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father,
who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers.
I've had enough monkey, cried father.
You didn't eat the hands, and I went to all the
trouble to make onion rings for its fingers, said... (Read full poem)
21. Fragment Sixty-eight - written by H. D.
Read 5737 times on American Poems.
. . . even in the house of Hades.
--Sappho
1
I envy you your chance of death,
how I envy you this.
I am more covetous of him
even than of your glance,
I wish more from his presence
though he torture me in a grasp,
terrible, intense.
Though he... (Read full poem)
22. Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1346 times on American Poems.
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun
Seductive in the Air --
That Tun is hollow -- but the Tun --
With Hundred Weights -- to spare --
Too ponderous to suspect the snare
Espies that fickle chair
And seats itself to be let go
By that perfidious Hair... (Read full poem)
23. You'll find -- it when you try to die -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1568 times on American Poems.
You'll find -- it when you try to die --
The Easier to let go --
For recollecting such as went --
You could not spare -- you know.
And though their places somewhat filled --
As did their Marble names
With Moss -- they never grew so full --
You... (Read full poem)
24. We see -- Comparatively -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1261 times on American Poems.
We see -- Comparatively --
The Thing so towering high
We could not grasp its segment
Unaided -- Yesterday --
This Morning's finer Verdict --
Makes scarcely worth the toil --
A furrow -- Our Cordillera --
Our Apennine -- a Knoll --
Perhaps 'tis... (Read full poem)
25. you shall above all things... (22) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 18843 times on American Poems.
you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love... (Read full poem)
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