• "America" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1956 while he was in Berkeley, California. It appears in his collection Howl and Other Poems published...
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    "Antigonish" is a poem by the American educator and poet, William Hughes Mearns, written in 1899. It is also known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"...
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    "Daddy" is a poem written by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was composed on October 12, 1962, one month after her separation from Ted...
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    vocal arrangement of the poem. "Fire and Ice" by the American composer Kirke Mechem, one of the choral settings in his opus "American Trio." The fantasy writer...
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    the church periodical, The Congregationalist. At that time, the poem was entitled "America". Ward had initially composed the song's melody in 1882 to accompany...
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    Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl...
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    Desiderata (category American poems)
    "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s...
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  • "Let America Be America Again" is a poem written in 1935 by American poet Langston Hughes. It was originally published in the July 1936 issue of Esquire...
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  • poem by American poet William Carlos Williams published, in five volumes, from 1946 to 1958. The origin of the poem was an eighty-five line long poem...
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    a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, and later published as the first poem in the 1916...
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    the poem. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by American composer Lelia Molthrop Sadlier, a choral setting of the poem. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by American composer...
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  • Dog Named Beau", is a poem written by American film and stage actor James Stewart. A tribute to Stewart's deceased pet dog, the poem was first recited on...
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  • "Birches" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken"...
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  • "Tulips" is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was written in 1961 and included in the collection Ariel published in 1965. The poem is written...
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  • Frank "America" (poem), 1956, by Allen Ginsberg "America" (short story), by Orson Scott Card America, a Jake Grafton novel by Stephen Coonts "America", a...
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    "Paul Revere's Ride" is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18...
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    the American democracy (the coexistence of slavery and freedom) by referencing Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing". Lines from this poem are...
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  • specific presence in the text. Crane’s "epic of America" gets underway as a personal quest, as a poem divided against itself, in devotion to an urban...
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    "Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and...
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    The New Colossus (category American poems)
    "The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal...
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    is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one...
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    A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914–1917 published in 1917, and Poems of the War and the Peace published in 1921...
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  • seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor, Slason Thompson, changed...
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  • experience in America. The poem was published in Hughes's book Montage of a Dream Deferred in 1951. The book includes over ninety poems that are divided...
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  • The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965–1971 is a collection of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights Bookstore in 1973, for which...
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  • commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. The poem reads in full: Adam Had 'em...
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    "Ariel" is a poem written by the American poet Sylvia Plath. It was written on her thirtieth birthday, October 27, 1962, and published posthumously in...
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    Rules the World" is a poem by William Ross Wallace that praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world. The poem was first published...
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  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: Thinking "Thinking" is a poem written by Walter D. Wintle, a poet who lived in the late 19th and early...
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    is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. It began as a different poem, "A Paean", and was not published as "Lenore" until 1843. The poem discusses...
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