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The term "salt and pepper" has been searched for 51 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on December 10th, 2004.
1. Ode To Salt - written by Pablo Neruda
From Elementary Odes.
Read 5506 times on Poetry Connection.
This salt
in the saltcellar
I once saw in the salt mines.
I know
you won't
believe me,
but
it sings,
salt sings, the skin
of the salt mines
sings
with a mouth smothered
by the earth.
I shivered in those solitudes
when I heard
the... (Read full poem)
2. Where's the Poker? - written by Christopher Smart
Read 969 times on Poetry Connection.
The poker lost, poor Susan storm'd,
And all the rites of rage perform'd;
As scolding, crying, swearing, sweating,
Abusing, fidgetting, and fretting.
"Nothing but villany, and thieving;
Good heavens! what a world we live in!
If I... (Read full poem)
3. A Pinch of Salt - written by Robert Graves
Read 822 times on Poetry Connection.
When a dream is born in you
With a sudden clamorous pain,
When you know the dream is true
And lovely, with no flaw nor stain,
O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch
You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.
Dreams are like a bird... (Read full poem)
4. Ode To Tomatoes - written by Pablo Neruda
From Elementary Odes.
Read 6556 times on Poetry Connection.
The street
filled with tomatoes,
midday,
summer,
light is
halved
like
a
tomato,
its juice
runs
through the streets.
In December,
unabated,
the tomato
invades
the kitchen,
it enters at lunchtime,
takes
its ease
on... (Read full poem)
5. Roadways - written by John Masefield
Read 1136 times on Poetry Connection.
ONE road leads to London,
One road leads to Wales,
My road leads me seawards
To the white dipping sails.
One road leads to the river,
And it goes singing slow;
My road leads to shipping,
Where the bronzed sailors go.
Leads me,... (Read full poem)
6. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed - written by Dylan Thomas
Read 3710 times on Poetry Connection.
Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
In the throat, burning and turning. All night afloat
On the silent sea we have heard the sound
That came from the wound wrapped in the salt sheet.
Under the mile off moon we trembled listening
To... (Read full poem)
7. Magellanic Penguin - written by Pablo Neruda
Read 6290 times on Poetry Connection.
Neither clown nor child nor black
nor white but verticle
and a questioning innocence
dressed in night and snow:
The mother smiles at the sailor,
the fisherman at the astronaunt,
but the child child does not smile
when he looks at the bird child,
and... (Read full poem)
8. Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 1340 times on Poetry Connection.
And with that she
began nursing her child again, singing a sort of
lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a vio
lent shake at the end of every line: -- --
"Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes;
He only does... (Read full poem)
9. To A Shade - written by William Butler Yeats
From Responsibilities.
Published in 1914.
Read 1337 times on Poetry Connection.
If you have revisited the town, thin Shade,
Whether to look upon your monument
(I wonder if the builder has been paid)
Or happier-thoughted when the day is spent
To drink of that salt breath out of the sea
When grey gulls flit about instead of... (Read full poem)
10. In The Secular Night - written by Margaret Atwood
Read 5889 times on Poetry Connection.
In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It's two-thirty.
Everyone has deserted you,
or this is your story;
you remember it from being sixteen,
when the others were out somewhere, having a good time,
or so you suspected,
and you... (Read full poem)
11. Stars - written by A.E. Housman
Read 1523 times on Poetry Connection.
Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt. (Read full poem)
12. To A Child Dancing In The Wind - written by William Butler Yeats
From Responsibilities.
Published in 1914.
Read 3121 times on Poetry Connection.
Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer... (Read full poem)
13. The Sea - written by Lewis Carroll
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There are certain things -a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three -
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the SEA.
Pour some salt water over the floor -
Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it... (Read full poem)
14. A Sea Dirge - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 1401 times on Poetry Connection.
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three--
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the Sea.
Pour some salt water over the floor--
Ugly I'm sure you'll allow... (Read full poem)
15. Time - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for... (Read full poem)
16. The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
Published in 1933.
Read 1015 times on Poetry Connection.
Behold that great Plotinus swim,
Buffeted by such seas;
Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him,
But the Golden Race looks dim,
Salt blood blocks his eyes.
Scattered on the level grass
Or winding through the grove
plato there and Minos pass,
There stately... (Read full poem)
17. My Bear - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 502 times on Poetry Connection.
I never killed a bear because
I always thought them critters was
So kindo' cute;
Though round my shack they often came,
I'd raise my rifle and take aim,
But couldn't shoot.
Yet there was one... (Read full poem)
18. Answer - written by Peter Huchel
Read 383 times on Poetry Connection.
Between two nights
the brief day.
The farm is there.
And in the thicket, a snare
the hunter set for us.
Noon’s desert.
It still warms the stone.
Chirping in the wind,
buzz of a guitar
down the hillside.
The slow match
of withered... (Read full poem)
19. Seaport - written by A.S.J. Tessimond
From The Walls of Glass.
Published in 1934.
Read 444 times on Poetry Connection.
Green sea-tarnished copper
And sea-tarnished gold
Of cupolas.
Sea-runnelled streets
Channelled by salt air
That wears the white stone.
The sunlight-filled cistern
Of a dry-dock. Square shadows.
Sun-slatted smoke above meticulous stooping of... (Read full poem)
20. The Importance Of Elsewhere - written by Philip Larkin
From The Whitsun Weddings.
Published in 1955.
Read 4311 times on Poetry Connection.
Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,
Insisting so on difference, made me welcome:
Once that was recognised, we were in touch
Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint
Archaic... (Read full poem)
21. Drugs Made Pauline Vague - written by Stevie Smith
From Harold's Leap.
Read 3224 times on Poetry Connection.
Drugs made Pauline vague.
She sat one day at the breakfast table
Fingering in a baffled way
The fronds of the maidenhair plant.
Was it the salt you were looking for dear?
said Dulcie, exchanging a glance with the... (Read full poem)
22. By The Sea - written by Christina Rossetti
Read 1282 times on Poetry Connection.
Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan,
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
Sheer miracles of loveliness
Lie hid in its unlooked-on... (Read full poem)
23. Coral - written by Derek Walcott
From Collected Poems 1948-1984.
Read 1161 times on Poetry Connection.
This coral's hape ecohes the hand
It hollowed. Its
Immediate absence is heavy. As pumice,
As your breast in my cupped palm.
Sea-cold, its nipple rasps like sand,
Its pores, like yours, shone with salt sweat.
Bodies in absence displace their... (Read full poem)
24. AT VERONA - written by Oscar Wilde
From Charmides and Other Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1063 times on Poetry Connection.
AT VERONA
How steep the stairs within King's houses are
For exile-wearied feet as mine to tread,
And O how salt and bitter is the bread
Which falls from this Hound's table, - better far
That I had died in the red ways of war,
Or that the... (Read full poem)
25. The Book of Urizen: Chapter IX - written by William Blake
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1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:
Felt their Nerves change into Marrow
And hardening Bones began
In swift diseases and torments,
In throbbings & shootings & grindings
Thro' all the coasts; till weaken'd
The Senses inward rush'd... (Read full poem)
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