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The term "palm of life" has been searched for 19 times on the American Poems site since October 21st, 2005.
Search Results: 1 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. The Gift - written by Li-Young Lee
From Rose.
Published in 1986.
Read 3165 times on American Poems.
To pull the metal splinter from my palm
my father recited a story in a low voice.
I watched his lovely face and not the blade.
Before the story ended, he'd removed
the iron sliver I thought I'd die from.
I can't remember the tale,
but... (Read full poem)
2. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 3162 times on American Poems.
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
We agree in principle. That's clear. But... (Read full poem)
3. Ornithology for Beginners - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 4187 times on American Poems.
The bird that feeds from off my palm
Is sleek, affectionate, and calm,
But double, to me, is worth the thrush
A-flickering in the elder-bush.(Read full poem)
4. Nomad Exquisite - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 1066 times on American Poems.
As the immense dew of Florida
Brings forth
The big-finned palm
And green vine angering for life,
As the immense dew of Florida
Brings forth hymn and hymn
From the beholder,
Beholding all these green sides
And gold sides of green sides,
And blessed... (Read full poem)
5. How Much Earth - written by Philip Levine
Read 556 times on American Poems.
Torn into light, you woke wriggling
on a woman's palm. Halved, quartered,
shredded to the wind, you were the life
that thrilled along the underbelly
of a stone. Stilled in the frozen pond
you rinsed heaven with a sigh.
How much earth is a... (Read full poem)
6. Lorena - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 534 times on American Poems.
it lay in my palm soft and trembled
as a new bird and i thought about
authority and how it always insisted
on itself, how it was master
of the man, how it measured him, never
was ignored or denied, and how it promised
there would be sweetness... (Read full poem)
7. The Space Heater - written by Sharon Olds
From The New Yorker.
Read 1352 times on American Poems.
On the then-below-zero day, it was on,
near the patients' chair, the old heater
kept by the analyst's couch, at the end,
like the infant's headstone that was added near the foot
of my father's grave. And it was hot, with the almost
laughing satire... (Read full poem)
9. The Daughter Goes To Camp - written by Sharon Olds
Read 2101 times on American Poems.
In the taxi alone, home from the airport,
I could not believe you were gone. My palm kept
creeping over the smooth plastic
to find your strong meaty little hand and
squeeze it, find your narrow thigh in the
noble ribbing of the... (Read full poem)
10. Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2326 times on American Poems.
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard!
Was the Leopard -- bold?
Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin --
Ethiop -- her Gold --
Tawny -- her Customs --
She was Conscious --
Spotted -- her Dun Gown --
This was the Leopard's nature -- Signor --
Need -- a... (Read full poem)
11. As Adam, Early in the Morning. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3313 times on American Poems.
AS Adam, early in the morning,
Walking forth from the bower, refresh’d with sleep;
Behold me where I pass—hear my voice—approach,
Touch me—touch the palm of your hand to my Body as I pass;
Be not afraid of my Body. 5(Read full poem)
12. With No Experience In Such Matters - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1160 times on American Poems.
To hold a damaged sparrow
under water until you feel it die
is to know a small something
about the mind; how, for example,
it blames the cat for the original crime,
how it wants praise for its better side.
And yet it's as human
as pulling the plug... (Read full poem)
13. Love And Death - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 3447 times on American Poems.
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,
And shall my soul that lies within your hand
Remember nothing, as the blowing sand
Forgets the palm where long blue shadows creep
When winds along the darkened desert sweep?
Or would it still remember,... (Read full poem)
14. Next Day - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2113 times on American Poems.
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All,
I take a box
And add it to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens.
The slacked or shorted, basketed, identical
Food-gathering flocks
Are selves I overlook. Wisdom, said William James,
Is learning what to... (Read full poem)
15. All That Love Asks - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1283 times on American Poems.
All that I ask, 'says Love, 'is just to stand
And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;
For in their depths lies largest Paradise.
Yet, if perchance one pressure of thy hand
Be granted me, then joy I thought complete
Were still more... (Read full poem)
16. I should have been too glad, I see - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1802 times on American Poems.
I should have been too glad, I see --
Too lifted -- for the scant degree
Of Life's penurious Round --
My little Circuit would have shamed
This new Circumference -- have blamed --
The homelier time behind.
I should have been too saved -- I see... (Read full poem)
17. The Touch - written by Anne Sexton
Read 6880 times on American Poems.
For months my hand was sealed off
in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings.
Perhaps it is bruised, I thought,
and that is why they have locked it up.
You could tell time by this, I thought,
like a clock, by its five knuckles
and the... (Read full poem)
18. Smoking - written by Elton Glaser
From Winter Amnesties.
Published in 2000.
Read 1186 times on American Poems.
I like the cool and heft of it, dull metal on the palm,
And the click, the hiss, the spark fuming into flame,
Boldface of fire, the rage and sway of it, raw blue at the base
And a slope of gold, a touch to the packed tobacco, the tip
Turned red as a... (Read full poem)
19. Written in a Volume of the Comtesse de Noailles - written by Alan Seeger
Read 332 times on American Poems.
Be my companion under cool arcades
That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square
Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree promenades
White belfries burn in the blue tropic air.
Lie near me in dim forests where the croon
Of wood-doves sounds... (Read full poem)
20. Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1360 times on American Poems.
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead
Came the Darker Way --
Carriages -- Be Sure -- and Guests -- too --
But for Holiday
'Tis more pitiful Endeavor
Than did Loaded Sea
O'er the Curls attempt to caper
It had cast away --
Never Bride had such... (Read full poem)
21. A Life - written by Sylvia Plath
Read 96806 times on American Poems.
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here's yesterday, last year ---
Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
Windless threadwork of a tapestry.
Flick the glass with your fingernail:
It... (Read full poem)
22. Who Bides His Time - written by James Whitcomb Riley
Read 854 times on American Poems.
Who bides his time, and day by day
Faces defeat full patiently,
And lifts a mirthful roundelay,
However poor his fortunes be,--
He will not fail in any qualm
Of poverty -- the paltry dime
It will grow golden in his palm,
Who bides his... (Read full poem)
23. Detroit Grease Shop Poem - written by Philip Levine
Read 734 times on American Poems.
Four bright steel crosses,
universal joints, plucked
out of the burlap sack --
"the heart of the drive train,"
the book says. Stars
on Lemon's wooden palm,
stars that must be capped,
rolled, and anointed,
that have their orders
and their commands as... (Read full poem)
24. The Dark and the Fair - written by Stanley Kunitz
Read 705 times on American Poems.
A roaring company that festive night;
The beast of dialectic dragged his chains,
Prowling from chair to chair is the smoking light,
While the snow hissed against the windowpanes.
Our politics, our science, and our faith
Were whiskey on the... (Read full poem)
25. A Postcard From The Volcano - written by Wallace Stevens
From Wallace Stevens: The Palm at the End of the Mind Selected Poems and a Play.
Published in 1936.
Read 3158 times on American Poems.
Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
And that in autumn, when the grapes
Made sharp air sharper by their smell
These had a being, breathing frost;
And least will guess that with our... (Read full poem)
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