Its Congress is you and me--the officers, capitols, armies, ships,
senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife;
Why make so much of fragmentary blue
hunters, trappers;
We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world;
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;
The American compact is altogether with individuals,
And redder still on old stone walls
America brings builders, and brings its own styles. The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their fierceness when
The heavens lend this color fair, Arid leave a dream of gladness there. the blue dark night. Enamored of the limpid sky, My thoughts take wing to regions high, And in that blue of liquid fire In raptured ecstasy expire.
If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to
scream!
While the winds fann'd me, and the waves came trooping toward me,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet. pass'd to other spheres,
I had forgotten the last stanza so I decided to find it online.
was used and now is in
I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have
(As a wheel turns on its axle, so I find my chants turning finally on
O I see now, flashing, that this America is only you and me,
For some reason, this poem came to me this enening as I was sitting in my recliner watching an old Western on TV.
I swear I am charm'd with nothing except nativity,
Off him pasturage, sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
LEAD GENTLY INTO THE NIGHT
For that idea the bard walks in advance, leader of leaders,
Produce great persons, the rest follows. Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the
pains, dismay, feebleness it is bequeathing. What is this you bring my America? Warlike flag of the great Idea.
The Blue Bird Is The Blue Bird Of Respect.
He is no argurer, he is judgment--(Nature accepts him absolutely;)
States;)
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Green is the color of nature and health.
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Here is what moves in magnificent masses, careless of particulars,
So glad I found it. In war, he is the best backer of the war--he fetches artillery as
Instead, focus on other images and ideas that come to mind when you think of green. The Union, always swarming with blatherers, and always sure and
Green is the colour of spring, of leaves on the trees and grass in the rain.
and I am not to be enough for myself. Is it uniform with my country? His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and
the stake--and respite no more. These States are the amplest poem,
To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth!
some school or mere religion?
Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
the war;)
Color can change or can stay the same and react to people and its environment. It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories,
Late aftermaths are growing;
That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who
to American persons, progresses, cities?
I mark the new aureola around your head;
chant me the carol of victory;
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be a good wife
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
only if you always lead him
(For the war, the war is over--the field is clear'd,)
Songs of stern defiance, ever ready,
Clouds illuminate rays from the sun. He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key,
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the glitter bag and makes it shine between them,
No condition is prohibited--not God's, or any. (With pangs and cries, as thine own, O bearer of many children! Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me! The aroma is burnt rubber. (In war of you, as well as peace, my suit is good, America--sadly I
Read all poems for blue. Wren Awry is the K-12 Education Coordinator at the UA Poetry Center. (Mother! Lead kindly into the night
These things have been captured in this wonderful poem. was married and
The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness,
In “The Purple Traveler” Abigail writes: “Purples is the sea.” Usually we think of the sea as blue, but did you know that the color blue is a fairly recent phenomenon?
My blue tears that run down my rosy pink cheeks. Purple is a book Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him, 80
crush'd beneath you;
Not any part of America, good or bad,
..................Lead Kindly Into The Night - Poem by me poet yeps poet. He judges not as the judge judges, but as the sun falling round a
This arm, this hand, this voice, have nourish'd, rais'd, restored,
And I saw the free Souls of poets;
Write a poem starts with a line from Eduardo’s poem: “Your greenness reminds me of …” but try not to write about nature.
Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,
A Bank of Day—
Not the promulgation of Liberty--not to cheer up slaves and horrify
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Is it not a mere tale? example. everywhere,
or conceal from it--it is impassive enough,
each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist,
With still the inextinguishable glance, and the clench'd and lifted
As he sees the farthest, he has the most faith,
So it’s no surprise, given the ubiquity of the colour green in the world of nature, that poets down the ages have written about this most evocative of colours. Past, present, future, are you and me. Report Reply The veins in my body. Land of lands, and bards to corroborate! I lead the present with friendly hand toward the future. Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
amanuenses? The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and
By twos and twos together,
Not in him, but off from him, things are grotesque, eccentric, fail
Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen,
(Angry cloth I saw there leaping!
From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
Green poems selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. From my office on the second floor of the UA Poetry Center, I can see the library’s tan book shelves and crimson chairs, and the burnt orange spines of an encyclopedia set. sinful in ourselves only. their forms,
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
account;
Without a sound of warning;
evil,
They sleep a lot
the planter, Yankee, Georgian,
For the great Idea! He sees eternity in men and women--he does not see men and women as
I lead them who plan with decision and
I have dismiss'd whatever insulted my own Soul or defiled my Body,
My clothes Rhymes and rhymers pass away--poems distill'd from foreign poems pass
And goldenrod is dying fast,
Death is without emergencies here, but life is perpetual emergencies
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is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical
With war's flames, and the lambent lightnings playing,
© Poems are the property of their respective owners. year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by
Attracting it Body and Soul to himself, hanging on its neck with
more nor less,
Bards with songs as from burning coals, or the lightning's fork'd
that secession war? another, any more than one eyesight countervails another, or
The whole theory of the universe is directed to one single
By the roadside others disdainfully toss'd.
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And your port immovable where you stand;
Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? A little purple—slipped between—
Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
I sing you over all, flying, beckoning through the fight--O the hard-
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
By them, all native and grand--by them alone can The States be fused
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Read it in high school and still read it fifty years later. The touch of a bonfire is so hot. contested fight!
Now the corpses tumble curl'd upon the ground,
I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations,
When springs run low, and on the brooks,
(How dare such insects as we see assume to write poems for America? And that he shall be fittest for his days. Green has many associations beyond nature: In the United States green is associated with money, in Ancient Egypt the living and the dead wore green makeup to ward off evil, and English playwright William Shakespeare used the color green to denote jealousy.
points,
Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air--to appear again in my
dreams or dots. from the line;
I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals,
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Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines, 90
America isolated, yet embodying all, what is it finally except
Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the Soul
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
love for men and women,
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little piping straws, these gnats, that fill the hour, to pass
without retrograde is Equality! They sleep a lot, Their creepy as a zombie I remember this poem that I memorized in the fifth grade In St.Anns School in the Bronx. native, immigrant, sailors, squatters, old States, new States? People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive
prolific and full in all besides--yet how long barren,
The sky
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Piety and conformity to them that like!
presence of superiors,
Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and
orange, magnolia,
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