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The term "sand dollar poem" has been searched for 37 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on September 24th, 2005.
1. Poem: Les Silhouettes - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 3005 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Les Silhouettes
The sea is flecked with bars of grey,
The dull dead wind is out of tune,
And like a withered leaf the moon
Is blown across the stormy bay.
Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers... (Read full poem)
2. Poem: Chanson - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1908 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Chanson
A ring of gold and a milk-white dove
Are goodly gifts for thee,
And a hempen rope for your own love
To hang upon a tree.
For you a House of Ivory,
(Roses are white in the rose-bower)!
A narrow bed for me to lie,
(White, O... (Read full poem)
3. The New Poetry Handbook - written by Mark Strand
Read 48895 times on Poetry Connection.
1 If a man understands a poem,
he shall have troubles.
2 If a man lives with a poem,
he shall die lonely.
3 If a man lives with two poems,
he shall be unfaithful to one.
4 If a man conceives of a poem,
he shall... (Read full poem)
4. Poem: To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 86568 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems
I can write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.
For if of these fallen petals
One to you seem fair,
Love will waft it till it settles
On your... (Read full poem)
5. Alabama Song - written by Bertolt Brecht
Read 1816 times on Poetry Connection.
Show me the way to the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find the next whisky bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell... (Read full poem)
6. A Poem - written by Regina Derieva
From Inland Sea and Other Poems (The Divine Art, South Shields 1999).
Read 6021 times on Poetry Connection.
A poem—
is just one more
scrap of paper
that has sailed off the table
in a bottle
with a cry for help.(Read full poem)
7. Poem: Serenade (For Music) - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1263 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Serenade (For Music)
The western wind is blowing fair
Across the dark AEgean sea,
And at the secret marble stair
My Tyrian galley waits for thee.
Come down! the purple sail is spread,
The watchman sleeps within the town,
O leave thy... (Read full poem)
8. On The Margins Of A Poem - written by Jiri Mordecai Langer
From Anthology of Jewish Poetry.
Read 1171 times on Poetry Connection.
The poem
that I chose for you
is simple,
as are all my singing poems.
It has the trace of a veil,
a little balsam,
and a taste of the honey
of lies.
There is also
the coming end of summer
when heat scorches the meadow
and the quick waters
of the... (Read full poem)
9. Sand Dabs, Five - written by Mary Oliver
From Winter Hours.
Published in 1999.
Read 3102 times on Poetry Connection.
What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.
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Does the grain of sand know it is a grain of sand?
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My dog Ben -- a mouth like a tabernacle.
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You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence,
serendipity. I'll take... (Read full poem)
10. Poem: The Dole Of The King's Daughter (Breton) - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1878 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: The Dole Of The King's Daughter (Breton)
Seven stars in the still water,
And seven in the sky;
Seven sins on the King's daughter,
Deep in her soul to lie.
Red roses are at her feet,
(Roses are red in her red-gold hair)
And O where... (Read full poem)
11. Temporary Poem Of My Time - written by Yehuda Amichai
Read 1162 times on Poetry Connection.
Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,
Latin writing, from west to east.
Languages are like cats:
You must not stroke their hair the wrong way.
The clouds come from the sea, the hot wind from the desert,
The trees bend in the... (Read full poem)
12. Poetry And Religion - written by Les Murray
Read 4729 times on Poetry Connection.
Religions are poems. They concert
our daylight and dreaming mind, our
emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture
into the only whole thinking: poetry.
Nothing's said till it's dreamed out in words
and nothing's true that figures in words... (Read full poem)
13. Saddest Poem - written by Pablo Neruda
Read 30457 times on Poetry Connection.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."
The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her,... (Read full poem)
14. Poem: With A Copy Of 'A House Of Pomegranates' - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 13811 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: With A Copy Of 'A House Of Pomegranates'
Go, little book,
To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl,
Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl:
And bid him look
Into thy pages: it may hap that he
May find that golden maidens dance... (Read full poem)
15. A Grain Of Sand - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger.
Read 911 times on Poetry Connection.
If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
There is no reason to suppose
Our earth the only one.
'Mid countless constellations cast
A million worlds may be,
With each a God to bless or blast
And steer to... (Read full poem)
17. Poem: Tristitiae - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 2727 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Tristitiae
O well for him who lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,
Nor heeds the splashing of the rain,
The crashing down of forest trees.
O well for him who ne'er hath known
The travail of the hungry years,
A father... (Read full poem)
18. Inspiration - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 3617 times on Poetry Connection.
How often have I started out
With no thought in my noodle,
And wandered here and there about,
Where fancy bade me toddle;
Till feeling faunlike in my glee
I've voiced some gay distiches,
Returning joyfully to tea,
A poem in my britches.
A-squatting... (Read full poem)
19. The Final Poem - written by Andree Chedid
Read 1389 times on Poetry Connection.
A forge burns in my heart.
I am redder than dawn,
Deeper than seaweed,
More distant than gulls,
More hollow than wells.
But I only give birth
To seeds and to shells.
My tongue becomes tangled in words:
I no longer speak white,
Nor utter... (Read full poem)
20. Poem: My Voice - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 4393 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: My Voice
Within this restless, hurried, modern world
We took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,
And now the white sails of our ship are furled,
And spent the lading of our argosy.
Wherefore my cheeks before their time are... (Read full poem)
21. Poem: Impression - Le Reveillon - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 2823 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Impression - Le Reveillon
The sky is laced with fitful red,
The circling mists and shadows flee,
The dawn is rising from the sea,
Like a white lady from her bed.
And jagged brazen arrows fall
Athwart the feathers of the night,
And... (Read full poem)
22. Poem: Sonnet To Liberty - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 9204 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Sonnet To Liberty
Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -
But that the roar of thy Democracies,
Thy reigns of Terror, thy great... (Read full poem)
23. Poem: Theoretikos - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1431 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Theoretikos
This mighty empire hath but feet of clay:
Of all its ancient chivalry and might
Our little island is forsaken quite:
Some enemy hath stolen its crown of bay,
And from its hills that voice hath passed away
Which spake of... (Read full poem)
24. Your Poem - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 2944 times on Poetry Connection.
My poem may be yours indeed
In melody and tone,
If in its rhythm you can read
A music of your own;
If in its pale woof you can weave
Your lovelier design,
'Twill make my lyric, I believe,
More yours than mine.
I'm but a prompter at the... (Read full poem)
25. Poem: La Fuite De La Lune - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1676 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: La Fuite De La Lune
To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.
Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A... (Read full poem)
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