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The term "pale kings and princes" has been searched for 24 times on the American Poems site since May 27th, 2005.
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1. Streets Too Old - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1442 times on American Poems.
I WALKED among the streets of an old city and the streets were lean as the throats of hard seafish soaked in salt and kept in barrels many years.
How old, how old, how old, we are:—the walls went on saying, street walls leaning toward each... (Read full poem)
2. Kings - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2614 times on American Poems.
(For the Rev. James B. Dollard)
The Kings of the earth are men of might,
And cities are burned for their delight,
And the skies rain death in the silent night,
And the hills belch death all day!
But the King of Heaven, Who made them all,
Is... (Read full poem)
3. What Best I See In Thee. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3086 times on American Poems.
WHAT best I see in thee,
Is not that where thou mov’st down history’s great highways,
Ever undimm’d by time shoots warlike victory’s dazzle,
Or that thou sat’st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
Or thou the... (Read full poem)
4. Wars - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1914.
Read 3309 times on American Poems.
IN the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet.
In the new wars hum of motors and the tread of rubber tires.
In the wars to come silent wheels and whirr of rods not
yet dreamed out in the heads of men.
In the old wars clutches of short... (Read full poem)
5. Tezcotzinco - written by Alan Seeger
Read 286 times on American Poems.
Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold,
Thou wert sometime the garden of a king.
The birds have sought a lovelier place to sing.
The flowers are few. It was not so of old.
It was not thus when hand in hand there strolled
Through arbors... (Read full poem)
6. Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1885 times on American Poems.
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SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
Like lightning it le’pt forth, half startled at itself,
Its feet upon the ashes and the rags—its hands tight to the throats of kings.
O hope and faith!
O aching close... (Read full poem)
7. High Conspiratorial Person - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1035 times on American Poems.
OUT of the testimony of such reluctant lips, out of the oaths and mouths of such scrupulous liars, out of perjurers whose hands swore by God to the white sun before all men,
Out of a rag saturated with smears and smuts gathered from the footbaths... (Read full poem)
8. Salome's Dancing-Lesson - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 5787 times on American Poems.
She that begs a little boon
(Heel and toe! Heel and toe!)
Little gets- and nothing, soon.
(No, no, no! No, no, no!)
She that calls for costly things
Priceless finds her offerings-
What's impossible to kings?
(Heel and toe! Heel and toe!)
Kings are... (Read full poem)
9. The Republican Genius of Europe - written by Philip Freneau
Read 2609 times on American Poems.
Emporers and kings! in vain you strive
Your torments to conceal--
The age is come that shakes your thrones,
Tramples in dust despotic crowns,
And bids the sceptre fail.
In western worlds the flame began:
From thence to France it flew--
Through... (Read full poem)
10. Thick-Sprinkled Bunting. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2267 times on American Poems.
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars!
Long yet your road, fateful flag!—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death!
For the prize I see at issue, at last is the world!
All its ships and shores I see, interwoven with your threads,... (Read full poem)
11. a pretty a day - written by e.e. cummings
Read 102715 times on American Poems.
a pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)
o yes to flower
until so blithe
a doer a wooer
some limber and lithe
some very fine mower
a tall;tall
some jerry so very
(and nellie... (Read full poem)
12. General William Booth Enters into Heaven - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 1125 times on American Poems.
[To be sung to the tune of The Blood of the Lamb with indicated instrument]
I
[Bass drum beaten loudly.]
Booth led boldly with his big bass drum --
(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
The Saints smiled gravely and they said:... (Read full poem)
13. A Million Young Workmen, 1915 - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1345 times on American Poems.
A MILLION young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads,
And the million are now under soil and their rottening flesh will in the years feed roots of blood-red roses.
Yes, this million of young workmen slaughtered one another... (Read full poem)
15. Ace Shaw - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 575 times on American Poems.
I never saw any difference
Between playing cards for money
And selling real estate,
Practicing law, banking, or anything else.
For everything is chance.
Nevertheless
Seest thou a man diligent in business?
He shall stand before Kings! (Read full poem)
16. The Maldive Shark - written by Herman Melville
Read 2214 times on American Poems.
About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
How alert in attendance be.
From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw,
They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide... (Read full poem)
17. My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 815 times on American Poems.
My lady in her white silk shawl
Is like a lily dim,
Within the twilight of the room
Enthroned and kind and prim.
My lady! Pale gold is her hair.
Until she smiles her face
Is pale with far Hellenic moods,
With thoughts that find no... (Read full poem)
18. The Three Kings - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Birds Of Passage.
Read 1657 times on American Poems.
Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by day,
For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.
The star was so beautiful,... (Read full poem)
19. Ballade at Thirty-Five - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3515 times on American Poems.
This, no song of an ingenue,
This, no ballad of innocence;
This, the rhyme of a lady who
Followed ever her natural bents.
This, a solo of sapience,
This, a chantey of sophistry,
This, the sum of experiments,
I loved them until they loved me.
Decked... (Read full poem)
20. The Little Garden - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 3205 times on American Poems.
A little garden on a bleak hillside
Where deep the heavy, dazzling mountain snow
Lies far into the spring. The sun's pale glow
Is scarcely able to melt patches wide
About the single rose bush. All denied
Of nature's tender ministries. But... (Read full poem)
21. I met a King this afternoon! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2943 times on American Poems.
I met a King this afternoon!
He had not on a Crown indeed,
A little Palmleaf Hat was all,
And he was barefoot, I'm afraid!
But sure I am he Ermine wore
Beneath his faded Jacket's blue --
And sure I am, the crest he bore
Within that Jacket's pocket... (Read full poem)
22. Alba - written by Ezra Pound
Read 7390 times on American Poems.
As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.(Read full poem)
23. To Her Father with Some Verses - written by Anne Bradstreet
Read 1980 times on American Poems.
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear,
If worth in me or ought I do appear,
Who can of right better demand the same
Than may your worthy self from whom it came?
The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this... (Read full poem)
24. Beggars And Kings - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 915 times on American Poems.
In the evening
all the hours that weren't used
are emptied out
and the beggars are waiting to gather them up
to open them
to find the sun in each one
and teach it its beggar's name
and sing to it It is well
through the night
but each of us
has his... (Read full poem)
25. Monadnock through the Trees - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 393 times on American Poems.
Before there was in Egypt any sound
Of those who reared a more prodigious means
For the self-heavy sleep of kings and queens
Than hitherto had mocked the most renowned,—
Unvisioned here and waiting to be found,
Alone, amid remote and older... (Read full poem)
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