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The term "x lovers" has been searched for 358 times on the American Poems site since July 19th, 2005.
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1. To a Western Boy. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3086 times on American Poems.
O BOY of the West!
To you many things to absorb, I teach, to help you become eleve of mine:
Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins;
If you be not silently selected by lovers, and do not silently select lovers,
Of what use is it that you... (Read full poem)
2. To Lovers - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New England Magazine.
Published in 1892.
Read 345 times on American Poems.
Ho, ye lovers, list to me;
Warning words have I for thee:
Give ye heed, hefore ye wed,
To this thing Sir Chaucer said:
“Love wol not be constrained by maistrie,
When maistrie cometh, the god of love anon
Beteth his winges, and... (Read full poem)
3. Amateurs of Heaven - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 624 times on American Poems.
Two lovers to a midnight meadow came
High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand
Like effigies and look up at the stars,
The never-setting ones set in the North
To circle the Pole in idiot majesty,
And wonder what was given them to... (Read full poem)
4. The Skeleton In The Dogwood - written by Ron Rash
From Among the Believers.
Published in 2000.
Read 736 times on American Poems.
(Watauga County, 1895)
Two lovers out walking found
more than spring's promised blessing
on new beginnings hanging
in a dogwood tree's branches.
No friend or kin claimed those bones.
The high sheriff came. Foul play
he was sure, but how or why
he... (Read full poem)
5. City of Orgies. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 5915 times on American Poems.
CITY of orgies, walks and joys!
City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
Not the pageants of you—not your shifting tableaux, your spectacles, repay me;
Not the interminable rows of your... (Read full poem)
6. Over the Carnage. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1976 times on American Poems.
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice,
Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;
Those who love each other shall become invincible—they shall yet make Columbia
victorious.
Sons of the Mother... (Read full poem)
7. Cool Tombs - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 3509 times on American Poems.
WHEN Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin … in the dust, in the cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street, cash and collateral turned ashes … in the dust,... (Read full poem)
8. An Almost Made Up Poem - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 5463 times on American Poems.
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small, and the fountain is in France
where you wrote me that last letter and
I answered and never heard from you again.
you used to write insane poems... (Read full poem)
9. Villanelle - written by Donald Hall
From The Painted Bed.
Published in 2002.
Read 1678 times on American Poems.
Katie could put her feet behind her head
Or do a grand plié, position two,
Her suppleness magnificent in bed.
I strained my lower back, and Katie bled,
Only a little, doing what we could do
When Katie tucked her feet behind her head.
Her... (Read full poem)
10. Reunited - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1210 times on American Poems.
Let us begin, dear love, where we left off;
Tie up the broken threads of that old dream;
And go on happy as before; and seem
Lovers again, though all the world may scoff.
Let us forget the graves, which lie between
Our parting and our... (Read full poem)
11. Romeo and Juliet - written by Richard Brautigan
Read 8871 times on American Poems.
If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a laundromat
If you will bring the soap
I will bring the bleach.(Read full poem)
12. Whitelight - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1913.
Read 3234 times on American Poems.
YOUR whitelight flashes the frost to-night
Moon of the purple and silent west.
Remember me one of your lovers of dreams.(Read full poem)
13. Scented Herbage of My Breast. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2238 times on American Poems.
SCENTED herbage of my breast,
Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing up above me, above death,
Perennial roots, tall leaves—O the winter shall not freeze you, delicate leaves,... (Read full poem)
14. Ité - written by Ezra Pound
Read 1627 times on American Poems.
Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young
and from the intolerant,
Move among the lovers of perfection alone.
Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light
And take you wounds from it gladly. (Read full poem)
15. States! - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2737 times on American Poems.
STATES!
Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?
By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms?
Away!
I arrive, bringing these, beyond all the forces of courts and arms,
These! to hold you together as firmly as the earth itself is held... (Read full poem)
16. Before Sleep - written by Catherine Anderson
Read 2860 times on American Poems.
I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.
I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these... (Read full poem)
17. A Lovers' Quarrel - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1334 times on American Poems.
We two were lovers, the Sea and I;
We plighted our troth ‘neath a summer sky.
And all through the riotous ardent weather
We dreamed, and loved, and rejoiced together.
* * *
At times my lover would rage and storm.
I said: ‘No matter, his... (Read full poem)
18. The Mystery - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 3004 times on American Poems.
Your eyes drink of me,
Love makes them shine,
Your eyes that lean
So close to mine.
We have long been lovers,
We know the range
Of each other's moods
And how they change;
But when we look
At each other so
Then we feel
How little we know;
The... (Read full poem)
19. Antimatter - written by Russell Edson
Read 1581 times on American Poems.
On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world,
where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the
earth and recede to the first slime of love.
And in the evening the sun is just rising.
Lovers cry because they are a day younger,... (Read full poem)
20. The Goose Fish - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 1928 times on American Poems.
On the long shore, lit by the moon
To show them properly alone,
Two lovers suddenly embraced
So that their shadows were as one.
The ordinary night was graced
For them by the swift tide of blood
That silently they took at flood,
And for a... (Read full poem)
21. Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2120 times on American Poems.
NOT my enemies ever invade me—no harm to my pride from them I fear;
But the lovers I recklessly love—lo! how they master me!
Lo! me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!
Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them.(Read full poem)
22. 'Tis customary as we part - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1444 times on American Poems.
'Tis customary as we part
A trinket -- to confer --
It helps to stimulate the faith
When Lovers be afar --
'Tis various -- as the various taste --
Clematis -- journeying far --
Presents me with a single Curl
Of her Electric Hair --(Read full poem)
23. The Garden - written by Louise Gluck
Read 1867 times on American Poems.
The garden admires you.
For your sake it smears itself with green pigment,
The ecstatic reds of the roses,
So that you will come to it with your lovers.
And the willows--
See how it has shaped these green
Tents of silence. Yet
There is... (Read full poem)
24. That Shadow, my Likeness. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2364 times on American Poems.
THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering,
chaffering;
How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits;
How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
—But in these, and... (Read full poem)
25. Jan Kubelik - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1913.
Read 1639 times on American Poems.
YOUR bow swept over a string, and a long low note
quivered to the air.
(A mother of Bohemia sobs over a new child perfect
learning to suck milk.)
Your bow ran fast over all the high strings fluttering
and wild.
(All the girls in Bohemia are... (Read full poem)
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