To Foreign Lands

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4. Unnamed Lands NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States; Garner’d clusters of ages, […]...
5. Sonnet LX: Define My Weal Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav’n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what […]...
6. A Following the phone rang at 1:30 a. m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in […]...
7. Some Foreign Letters I knew you forever and you were always old, Soft white lady of my heart. Surely you would scold Me […]...
8. Music, In A Foreign Language In a cafe, once more I heard Your voice – those sparse and frugal notes. Do they not say that […]...
9. I, Too, Sing America I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, […]...
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11. Foreign Missions in Battle Array An endless line of splendor, These troops with heaven for home, With creeds they go from Scotland, With incense go […]...
12. Mediums THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the […]...
13. Democracy It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that […]...
14. In lands I never saw they say In lands I never saw they say Immortal Alps look down Whose Bonnets touch the firmament Whose Sandals touch the […]...
15. Flat Lands FLAT lands on the end of town where real estate men are crying new subdivisions, The sunsets pour blood and […]...
16. Picture Puzzle Piece One picture puzzle piece Lyin’ on the sidewalk, One picture puzzle piece Soakin’ in the rain. It might be a […]...
17. A Song 1 COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone […]...
18. Foreign Children Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don’t you wish that you were me? […]...
19. The Foreign Land A woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne’er quite understand The […]...
20. Rise, O Days 1 RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I […]...
21. Fellow Citizens I DRANK musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with The millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter One night And […]...
22. To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are Life of the Muses’ day, their morning star! If works, not th’ […]...
23. The New Mistress “Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? You may be good for something, but […]...
24. Cantico del Sole The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep, The thought […]...
25. Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I As a kid I believed in democracy: I ‘saw no alternative’—teaching at The Big Place I ah Put it in […]...
26. The Message Send home my long stray’d eyes to me, Which O too long have dwelt on thee, Yet since there they […]...
27. States! STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? […]...
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30. The End of the World Here, at the end of the world, The flowers bleed As if they were hearts, The hearts ooze a darkness […]...
31. John Hancock Otis As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the […]...
32. The New Poetry Handbook 1 If a man understands a poem, he shall have troubles. 2 If a man lives with a poem, he […]...
33. Primeval my Love for the Woman I Love PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love, O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, […]...
34. Critic and Poet: an Epilogue No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define what is […]...
35. Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love FAST-ANCHOR’D, eternal, O love! O woman I love! O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought […]...
36. Dogfish Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing Kept flickering in with the tide And looking around. Black as a fisherman’s […]...
37. Design Said Seeker of the skies to me: “Behold yon starry host ashine! When Heaven’s harmony you see How can you […]...
38. America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t […]...
39. The Firebombers We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like […]...
40. Apostroph O MATER! O fils! O brood continental! O flowers of the prairies! O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! […]...