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The term "w auden north south west" has been searched for 507 times on the American Poems site since November 23rd, 2005.
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1. Wind - written by Amy Lowell
From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass.
Read 4705 times on American Poems.
He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea,
He steals the down from the honeybee,
He makes the forest trees rustle and sing,
He twirls my kite till it breaks its string.
Laughing, dancing, sunny wind,
Whistling, howling, rainy wind,
North,... (Read full poem)
2. To The States. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2525 times on American Poems.
WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters!
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, your torrid suns! O north,... (Read full poem)
3. Facing West from California’s Shores. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3372 times on American Poems.
FACING west, from California’s shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations,
look afar,
Look off the shores of my Western Sea—the circle... (Read full poem)
4. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 1034 times on American Poems.
The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
He bites it, day by day,
Until there's but a rim of scraps
That crumble all away.
The South Wind is a baker.
He kneads clouds in his den,
And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy
North . . . Wind .... (Read full poem)
5. The Sun and Moon must make their haste -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2547 times on American Poems.
The Sun and Moon must make their haste --
The Stars express around
For in the Zones of Paradise
The Lord alone is burned --
His Eye, it is the East and West --
The North and South when He
Do concentrate His Countenance
Like Glow Worms, flee away... (Read full poem)
6. Behind Me -- dips Eternity -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3843 times on American Poems.
Behind Me -- dips Eternity --
Before Me -- Immortality --
Myself -- the Term between --
Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,
Dissolving into Dawn away,
Before the West begin --
'Tis Kingdoms -- afterward -- they say --
In perfect -- pauseless... (Read full poem)
7. Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1407 times on American Poems.
Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated --
Blameless of a Name --
Efflorescence of a Sunset --
Reproduced -- the same --
Seed, had I, my Purple Sowing
Should endow the Day --
Not a Topic of a Twilight --
Show itself away --
Who for tilling -- to the... (Read full poem)
8. To the East and to the West. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2284 times on American Poems.
TO the East and to the West;
To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
To the Kanadian of the North—to the Southerner I love;
These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself—the germs are in all men;
I believe the main... (Read full poem)
9. The South Wind Say So - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1549 times on American Poems.
IF the oriole calls like last year
when the south wind sings in the oats,
if the leaves climb and climb on a bean pole
saying over a song learnt from the south wind,
if the crickets send up the same old lessons
found when the south wind keeps on... (Read full poem)
10. Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 6554 times on American Poems.
The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight.
In summer when I passed the place
I had to stop and lift my face;
A bird with an angelic gift
Was... (Read full poem)
11. New England Mind - written by Robert Francis
Read 434 times on American Poems.
My mind matches this understand land.
Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift,
Indoors the constant fire, the careful thrift
Are facts that I accept and understand.
I have brought in red berries and green boughs-
Berries of black... (Read full poem)
12. How Yesterday Looked - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1599 times on American Poems.
THE HIGH horses of the sea broke their white riders
On the walls that held and counted the hours
The wind lasted.
Two landbirds looked on and the north and the east
Looked on and the wind poured cups of foam
And the evening began.
The old men... (Read full poem)
13. Mal Agueros - written by Nick Carbo
Read 625 times on American Poems.
If you come to Mojacar
and peel open an orange full of worms,
count how many there are because
those are the days it will take for your body
to decompose after you are buried.
If you come to Mojacar
and find a small green snake with its... (Read full poem)
14. Lucky - written by Thomas Lux
Read 1263 times on American Poems.
One sweet pound of filet mignon
sizzles on the roadside. Let's say a hundred yards below
the buzzard. The buzzard
sees no cars or other buzzards
between the mountain range due north
and the horizon to the south
and across the desert west and east
no... (Read full poem)
15. Whirls - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1475 times on American Poems.
NEITHER rose leaves gathered in a jar—respectably in Boston—these—nor drops of Christ blood for a chalice—decently in Philadelphia or Baltimore.
Cinders—these—hissing in a marl and lime of Chicago—also... (Read full poem)
16. Weird-Bird - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 4474 times on American Poems.
Birds are flyin' south for winter.
Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,
Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',
Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.
He says, "It's not that I like ice
Or freezin' winds and snowy ground.
It's just... (Read full poem)
17. 90 North - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2152 times on American Poems.
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides
I sailed all night—till at last, with my black beard,
My furs and my dogs, I stood at the northern pole.
There in the childish night my... (Read full poem)
18. Diagnosis - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 1041 times on American Poems.
for David Lehman
I woke up this morning feeling
incredibly Gorky. So I made an appointment
to see my Doctorow. He said my Hemingways
looked a little swollen and sent me to
get an M.R. James and a complete Shakespeare.
By that time, I began... (Read full poem)
19. The Most - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1999 times on American Poems.
here comes the fishhead singing
here comes the baked potato in drag
here comes nothing to do all day long
here comes another night of no sleep
here comes the phone wringing the wrong tone
here comes a termite with a banjo
here comes a flagpole with... (Read full poem)
20. To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1584 times on American Poems.
TO the leaven’d soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last;
(Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor the dead,
But forth from my tent emerging for good—loosing, untying the tent-ropes;)
In the freshness, the forenoon air, in the... (Read full poem)
22. Clinton South of Polk - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1127 times on American Poems.
I WANDER down on Clinton street south of Polk
And listen to the voices of Italian children quarreling.
It is a cataract of coloratura
And I could sleep to their musical threats and accusations.(Read full poem)
23. South Winds jostle them - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1993 times on American Poems.
South Winds jostle them --
Bumblebees come --
Hover -- hesitate --
Drink, and are gone --
Butterflies pause
On their passage Cashmere --
I -- softly plucking,
Present them here!(Read full poem)
24. A South Wind -- has a pathos - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1413 times on American Poems.
A South Wind -- has a pathos
Of individual Voice --
As One detect on Landings
An Emigrant's address.
A Hint of Ports and Peoples --
And much not understood --
The fairer -- for the farness --
And for the foreignhood.(Read full poem)
25. Falltime - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 2980 times on American Poems.
GOLD of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon,
Canada thistle blue and flimmering larkspur blue,
Tomatoes shining in the October sun with red hearts,
Shining five and six in a row on a wooden fence,
Why do you keep wishes on your faces all day... (Read full poem)
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