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The term "pall of petals" has been searched for 36 times on the American Poems site since November 18th, 2004.
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1. Portrait Of A Lady - written by William Carlos Williams
Read 10443 times on American Poems.
Your thighs are appletrees
whose blossoms touch the sky.
Which sky? The sky
where Watteau hung a lady's
slipper. Your knees
are a southern breeze—or
a gust of snow. Agh! what
sort of man was Fragonard?
—As if that... (Read full poem)
2. She sped as Petals of a Rose - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1370 times on American Poems.
She sped as Petals of a Rose
Offended by the Wind --
A frail Aristocrat of Time
Indemnity to find --
Leaving on nature -- a Default
As Cricket or as Bee --
But Andes in the Bosoms where
She had begun to lie --(Read full poem)
3. Putting in the Seed - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 7366 times on American Poems.
You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and... (Read full poem)
4. I stood musing in a black world - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 3790 times on American Poems.
I stood musing in a black world,
Not knowing where to direct my feet.
And I saw the quick stream of men
Pouring ceaselessly,
Filled with eager faces,
A torrent of desire.
I called to them,
"Where do you go? What do you see?"
A thousand voices called... (Read full poem)
6. Ts'ai Chi'h - written by Ezra Pound
Read 2796 times on American Poems.
The petals fall in the fountain,
the orange-coloured rose-leaves,
Their ochre clings to the stone. (Read full poem)
8. Discovery - written by Richard Brautigan
Published in 1950.
Read 2629 times on American Poems.
The petals of the vagina unfold
like Christofer Columbus
taking off his shoes.
Is there anything more beautiful
than the bow of a ship
touching a new world?(Read full poem)
9. Brass Keys - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3598 times on American Poems.
JOY … weaving two violet petals for a coat lapel … painting on a slab of night sky a Christ face … slipping new brass keys into rusty iron locks and shouldering till at last the door gives and we are in a new room … forever and... (Read full poem)
10. Whose cheek is this? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3906 times on American Poems.
Whose cheek is this?
What rosy face
Has lost a blush today?
I found her -- "pleiad" -- in the woods
And bore her safe away.
Robins, in the tradition
Did cover such with leaves,
But which the cheek --
And which the pall
My scrutiny deceives.(Read full poem)
11. No Life can pompless pass away -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2947 times on American Poems.
No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here --
How cordial is the mystery!
The hospitable Pall
A "this way" beckons spaciously --
A Miracle for all!(Read full poem)
12. The Corpse Bird - written by Ron Rash
From Among the Believers.
Published in 2000.
Read 445 times on American Poems.
Bed-sick she heard the bird's call
fall soft as a pall that night
quilts tightened around her throat,
her grey eyes narrowed, their light
gone as she saw what she'd heard
waiting for her in the tree
cut down at daybreak by kin
to make the coffin,... (Read full poem)
13. To -- - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 1323 times on American Poems.
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds,
Are lips- and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words-
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined,
Then desolately fall,
O God! on my funereal mind
Like starlight on a... (Read full poem)
14. Another Sarah - written by Katherine Anne Porter
Read 990 times on American Poems.
for Christopher Smart
When winter was half over
God sent three angels to the
apple-tree
Who said to her
"Be glad, you little rack
Of empty sticks,
Because you have been chosen.
In May you will become
A wave of living sweetness
A nation of... (Read full poem)
15. Hydrangeas - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 1898 times on American Poems.
Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas
turn rust and go soon.
Already mid September a line of brown runs
over them.
One sunset after another tracks the faces, the
petals.
Waiting, they look over the fence for what
way... (Read full poem)
16. June - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 2476 times on American Poems.
Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia,
Scarlet Chinese talker of summer.
Two petals of crabapple blossom blow fallen in Paula's
hair,
And fluff of white from a cottonwood.(Read full poem)
17. After an Epigram of Clement Marot - written by Alan Seeger
Read 473 times on American Poems.
The lad I was I longer now
Nor am nor shall be evermore.
Spring's lovely blossoms from my brow
Have shed their petals on the floor.
Thou, Love, hast been my lord, thy shrine
Above all gods' best served by me.
Dear Love, could life... (Read full poem)
18. They dropped like Flakes - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2315 times on American Poems.
They dropped like Flakes --
They dropped like Stars --
Like Petals from a Rose --
When suddenly across the June
A wind with fingers -- goes --
They perished in the Seamless Grass --
No eye could find the place --
But God can summon every face
Of... (Read full poem)
19. Daisies - written by Connie Wanek
Read 885 times on American Poems.
In the democracy of daisies
every blossom has one vote.
The question on the ballot is
Does he love me?
If the answer's wrong I try another,
a little sorry about the petals
piling up around my shoes.
Bees are loose in the fields
where daisies wait... (Read full poem)
20. The End Of The World - written by Archibald MacLeish
Read 2894 times on American Poems.
Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time... (Read full poem)
21. The Disputants - written by William Carlos Williams
From Sour Grapes.
Published in 1921.
Read 1579 times on American Poems.
Upon the table in their bowl
in violent disarray
of yellow sprays, green spikes
of leaves, red pointed petals
and curled heads of blue
and white among the litter
of the forks and crumbs and plates
the flowers remain composed.
Coolly their... (Read full poem)
22. Serepta Mason - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 498 times on American Poems.
My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides
Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
On the side of me which you in the village could see.
From the dust I lift a voice of protest:
My flowering side you never saw!
Ye living ones, ye... (Read full poem)
23. Because the Bee may blameless hum - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1645 times on American Poems.
Because the Bee may blameless hum
For Thee a Bee do I become
List even unto Me.
Because the Flowers unafraid
May lift a look on thine, a Maid
Alway a Flower would be.
Nor Robins, Robins need not hide
When Thou upon their Crypts intrude
So Wings... (Read full poem)
24. On a Theme in the Greek Anthology - written by Alan Seeger
Read 320 times on American Poems.
Thy petals yet are closely curled,
Rose of the world,
Around their scented, golden core;
Nor yet has Summer purpled o'er
Thy tender clusters that begin
To swell within
The dewy vine-leaves' early screen
Of sheltering green.
O... (Read full poem)
25. Crowned - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 2864 times on American Poems.
You came to me bearing bright roses,
Red like the wine of your heart;
You twisted them into a garland
To set me aside from the mart.
Red roses to crown me your lover,
And I walked aureoled and apart.
Enslaved and encircled, I bore it,
Proud... (Read full poem)
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