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The term "needle" has been searched for 21 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on July 16th, 2005.
1. Sonnet (1979) - written by Elizabeth Bishop
Read 5197 times on Poetry Connection.
Caught -- the bubble
in the spirit level,
a creature divided;
and the compass needle
wobbling and wavering,
undecided.
Freed -- the broken
thermometer's mercury
running away;
and the rainbow-bird
from the narrow bevel
of the empty mirror,
flying... (Read full poem)
2. Patience - written by D.H. Lawrence
Read 1497 times on Poetry Connection.
A wind comes from the north
Blowing little flocks of birds
Like spray across the town,
And a train, roaring forth,
Rushes stampeding down
With cries and flying curds
Of steam, out of the darkening north.
Whither I turn and set
Like a... (Read full poem)
3. Mindful - written by Mary Oliver
Read 2393 times on Poetry Connection.
Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world -
to instruct... (Read full poem)
4. Brave Coward - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 1533 times on Poetry Connection.
Elisabeth imagines I've
A yellow streak
She deems I have no dash and drive,
Jest dogoned weak.
'A man should be a man,' says Liz
'Trade blow for blow.'
Poor kid! What my position is
She jest don't know.
She... (Read full poem)
5. Mammy - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 713 times on Poetry Connection.
I often wonder how
Life clicks because
They don't make women now
Like Mammy was.
When broods of two or three
Content most men,
How wonderful was she
With children ten!
Though sixty years have gone,
As I look back,
I see her... (Read full poem)
6. A Song From 'The Player Queen' - written by William Butler Yeats
From Responsibilities.
Published in 1914.
Read 13873 times on Poetry Connection.
My mother dandled me and sang,
'How young it is, how young!'
And made a golden cradle
That on a willow swung.
'He went away,' my mother sang,
'When I was brought to bed,'
And all the while her needle pulled
The gold and silver thread.
She pulled... (Read full poem)
7. To The Muse - written by James Wright
Read 2409 times on Poetry Connection.
It is all right. All they do
Is go in by dividing
One rib from another. I wouldn't
Lie to you. It hurts
Like nothing I know. All they do
Is burn their way in with a wire.
It forks in and out a little like the tongue
Of that frightened garter... (Read full poem)
8. Trixie - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 925 times on Poetry Connection.
Dogs have a sense beyond our ken -
At least my little Trixie had:
Tail-wagging when I laughed, and when
I sighed, eyes luminously sad.
And if I planned to go away,
She'd know, oh, days and days before:
Aye, dogs I think are sometimes fey,
They seem... (Read full poem)
9. In the Street - written by Henry Lawson
Read 797 times on Poetry Connection.
Where the needle-woman toils
Through the night with hand and brain,
Till the sickly daylight shudders like a spectre at the pain –
Till her eyes seem to crawl,
And her brain seems to creep –
And her limbs are all a-tremble for the want... (Read full poem)
10. 551. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1796.
Read 1002 times on Poetry Connection.
WHA will buy my troggin, fine election ware,
Broken trade o’ Broughton, a’ in high repair?
Chorus.—Buy braw troggin frae the banks o’ Dee;
Wha wants troggin let him come to me.
There’s a noble Earl’s fame and high... (Read full poem)
11. Colonel Martin - written by William Butler Yeats
From New Poems.
Published in 1938.
Read 1374 times on Poetry Connection.
I
The Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew,
With Christian and with Infidel,
For all tongues he knew.
'O what's a wifeless man?' said he,
And he came sailing home.
He rose the latch and went upstairs
And found an empty room.
The... (Read full poem)
12. The Sewing-Girl - written by Robert William Service
From Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 1).
Read 1424 times on Poetry Connection.
The humble garret where I dwell
Is in that Quarter called the Latin;
It isn't spacious -- truth to tell,
There's hardly room to swing a cat in.
But what of that! It's there I fight
For food and fame, my Muse inviting,
And all the day and half the... (Read full poem)
13. Spenser's Ireland - written by Marianne Moore
Read 1091 times on Poetry Connection.
has not altered;--
a place as kind as it is green,
the greenest place I've never seen.
Every name is a tune.
Denunciations do not affect
the culprit; nor blows, but it
is torture to him to not be spoken to.
They're natural,--
the coat,... (Read full poem)
14. The Trapper's Christmas Eve - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone.
Read 894 times on Poetry Connection.
It's mighty lonesome-like and drear.
Above the Wild the moon rides high,
And shows up sharp and needle-clear
The emptiness of earth and sky;
No happy homes with love a-glow;
No Santa Claus to make believe:
Just snow and snow, and then more... (Read full poem)
15. Room 6: The Little Workgirl - written by Robert William Service
From Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 2).
Read 472 times on Poetry Connection.
Three gentlemen live close beside me --
A painter of pictures bizarre,
A poet whose virtues might guide me,
A singer who plays the guitar;
And there on my lintel is Cupid;
I leave my door open, and yet
These gentlemen, aren't they stupid!
They never... (Read full poem)
16. Nothing But Death - written by Pablo Neruda
Read 8309 times on Poetry Connection.
There are cemeteries that are lonely,
graves full of bones that do not make a sound,
the heart moving through a tunnel,
in it darkness, darkness, darkness,
like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves,
as though we were drowning inside our... (Read full poem)
17. Wallflower - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 833 times on Poetry Connection.
Till midnight her needle she plied
To finish her pretty pink dress;
"Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed;
"I hope you will be a success."
As she entered the Oddfellow's Hall
With the shy thrill of maiden romance
She felt like the belle of the... (Read full poem)
18. He "Digesteth Harde Yron" - written by Marianne Moore
Read 873 times on Poetry Connection.
Although the aepyornis
or roc that lived in Madagascar, and
the moa are extinct,
the camel-sparrow, linked
with them in size--the large sparrow
Xenophon saw walking by a stream--was and is
a symbol of justice.
This bird watches his chicks... (Read full poem)
19. Lays of Sorrow - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 745 times on Poetry Connection.
The day was wet, the rain fell souse
Like jars of strawberry jam, [1] a
sound was heard in the old henhouse,
A beating of a hammer.
Of stalwart form, and visage warm,
Two youths were seen within it,
Splitting up an old tree into perches for... (Read full poem)
20. THE VISIT. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 552 times on Poetry Connection.
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress,
But soon found I that her door was fasten'd.
Yet I had the key safe in my pocket,
And the darling door I open'd softly!
In the parlour found I not the maiden,
Found the maiden not within her... (Read full poem)
21. In Defence of the Bush - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 445 times on Poetry Connection.
So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went,
And you're cursing all the business in a bitter discontent;
Well, we grieve to disappoint you, and it makes us sad to hear
That it wasn't cool and shady -- and there wasn't... (Read full poem)
22. Freedom of Love - written by Andre Breton
Read 1214 times on Poetry Connection.
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire
With the thoughts of heat lightning
With the waist of an hourglass
With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger
My wife with the lips of a cockade and of... (Read full poem)
23. In The Virgins - written by Derek Walcott
Read 1992 times on Poetry Connection.
You can't put in the ground swell of the organ
from the Christiansted, St.Croix, Anglican Church
behind the paratrooper's voice: "Turned cop
after Vietnam. I made thirty jumps."
Bells punish the dead street and pigeons lurch
from the stone belfry,... (Read full poem)
24. The Iron Wedding Rings - written by Henry Lawson
Read 695 times on Poetry Connection.
In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal,
There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding rings of steel;
Wedding rings of steel and iron, worn on wrinkled hands and old,
And the wearers would not give them, not for... (Read full poem)
25. The Wood-Cutter - written by Robert William Service
From Ballads of a Cheechako.
Read 524 times on Poetry Connection.
The sky is like an envelope,
One of those blue official things;
And, sealing it, to mock our hope,
The moon, a silver wafer, clings.
What shall we find when death gives leave
To... (Read full poem)
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