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The term "o capitan my captain" has been searched for 580 times on the American Poems site since December 14th, 2004.
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1. Paying The Captain - written by Russell Edson
Read 1654 times on American Poems.
We get on a boat, never mind if it sinks, we pay
the captain by throwing him overboard. And when he
gets back onboard we say, captain, please don't be
angry. And he forgives us this time. And so we throw
him overboard again just to make sure we... (Read full poem)
2. O Captain! My Captain! - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 64884 times on American Poems.
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O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:... (Read full poem)
3. The Sad Message - written by Russell Edson
From Ploughshares.
Read 1689 times on American Poems.
The Captain becomes moody at sea. He's
afraid of water; such bully amounts that prove the
seas. . .
A glass of water is one thing. A man easily downs
it, capturing its menace in his bladder; pissing it
away. A few drops of rain do little harm,... (Read full poem)
4. Captain Orlando Killion - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 495 times on American Poems.
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers,
You dauntless fledglings
Who pass by my headstone,
Mock not its record of my captaincy in the army
And my faith in God!
They are not denials of each other.
Go by reverently, and read with sober care
How a... (Read full poem)
5. The Pilot - written by Russell Edson
Read 982 times on American Poems.
Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star
which an old man can see. He looks at it. He can
see it. It is the star of the room; an electrical
freckle that has fallen out of his head and gotten
stuck in the dirt on the window.
He thinks he... (Read full poem)
6. 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)
7. Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet - written by Tony Hoagland
Read 818 times on American Poems.
At this height, Kansas
is just a concept,
a checkerboard design of wheat and corn
no larger than the foldout section
of my neighbor's travel magazine.
At this stage of the journey
I would estimate the distance
between myself and my own... (Read full poem)
9. Nocturne of the Wharves - written by Arna Bontemps
Read 2853 times on American Poems.
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom
against the dock with helpless prows:
these little ships that are too worn for sailing
front the wharf but do not rest at all.
Tugging at the dim gray wharf they think
no doubt of China and of bright... (Read full poem)
10. Voyages - written by Philip Levine
Read 566 times on American Poems.
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart --
I walk by sedge and brown river rot
to where the old lake boats went daily out.
All the ships are gone, the gray wharf fallen
in upon itself. Even the channel's
grown over. Once we set sail here
for... (Read full poem)
11. the Noster was a ship of swank... (8) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 2622 times on American Poems.
the Noster was a ship of swank
(as gallant as they come)
until she hit a mine and sank
just off the coast of Sum
precisely where a craft of cost
the Ergo perished later
all hands(you may recall)being lost
including captain Pater(Read full poem)
12. A soft Sea washed around the House - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1559 times on American Poems.
A soft Sea washed around the House
A Sea of Summer Air
And rose and fell the magic Planks
That sailed without a care --
For Captain was the Butterfly
For Helmsman was the Bee
And an entire universe
For the delighted crew.(Read full poem)
13. Charlie French - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 728 times on American Poems.
Did you ever find out
which of the boys it was
Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand?
There when the flags were red and white
In the breeze and "Bucky" Estil
Was firing the cannon brought to Spoon River
From Vicksburg by Captain... (Read full poem)
14. To Captain H-----d, of the 65th Regiment - written by Phillis Wheatley
Read 446 times on American Poems.
Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight
The warrior's bosom in the fields of fight?
Lo! here the christian and the hero join
With mutual grace to form the man divine.
In H-----D see with pleasure and surprise,
Where valour kindles, and... (Read full poem)
15. Battle of Will & Exhaustion, Mother & Child - written by Jenny Factor
Read 419 times on American Poems.
Two knights surrounded by dinosaurs
are cornered in the kitchen--all threat and bluster.
Action figures always act
even as night tries to soothe them under.
I am the one who laid a nervous hand
on a child's exhausted threat and bluster.
The... (Read full poem)
16. Dream Song 111: I miss him. When I get back to camp - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 813 times on American Poems.
I miss him. When I get back to camp
I'll dig him up. Well, he can prop & watch,
can't he, pink or blue,
and I will talk to him. I miss him. Slams,
grand or any, aren't for the tundra much.
One face-card will do.
It's marvellous how four... (Read full poem)
17. The Distant Winter - written by Philip Levine
From On The Edge.
Published in 1963.
Read 409 times on American Poems.
from an officer's diary during the last war
I
The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids.
"Stephan! Stephan!" The rattling orderly
Comes on a trot, the cold tray in his hands:
Toast whitening with oleo, brown tea,
Yesterday's... (Read full poem)
18. Memorial Day - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Trees and Other Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 1950 times on American Poems.
"Dulce et decorum est"
The bugle echoes shrill and sweet,
But not of war it sings to-day.
The road is rhythmic with the feet
Of men-at-arms who come to pray.
The roses blossom white and red
On tombs where weary soldiers lie;
Flags wave... (Read full poem)
19. Song For Heroes - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New Yorker.
Published in 1930.
Read 503 times on American Poems.
Captain O’Hare was a mariner brave;
He refused to abandon his ship;
A hero, he sleeps in a watery grave—
And his widow is now Mrs. Bipp,
Haw! Haw!
His widow is now Mrs. Bipp!
Henri Dupont was a fearless young ace;
Five thousand feet... (Read full poem)
20. Puritans - written by Richard Wilbur
Read 741 times on American Poems.
Sidling upon the river, the white boat
Has volleyed with its cannon all the morning,
Shaken the shore towns like a Judgment warning,
Telling the palsied water its demand
That the crime come to the top again, and float,
That the sunk murder rise... (Read full poem)
22. An Empty Threat - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 4824 times on American Poems.
I stay;
But it isn't as if
There wasn't always Hudson's Bay
And the fur trade,
A small skiff
And a paddle blade.
I can just see my tent pegged,
And me on the floor,
Cross-legged,
And a trapper looking in at the door
With furs to... (Read full poem)
23. The End Of The Weekend - written by Anthony Hecht
Read 1791 times on American Poems.
A dying firelight slides along the quirt
Of the cast iron cowboy where he leans
Against my father's books. The lariat
Whirls into darkness. My girl in skin tight jeans
Fingers a page of Captain Marriat
Inviting insolent shadows to her shirt.
We... (Read full poem)
24. Ghoti - written by Heather McHugh
Published in 1996.
Read 795 times on American Poems.
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's,
and the ti from unmentionables--presto:
there's the perfect English instance of
unlovablility--complete
with fish. Our wish was for a better
revelation: for a correspondence--
if not lexical, at... (Read full poem)
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