| 单词 | poem |
| 例句 | Each of four chosen girls recited a Thanksgiving poem and held in her hand a symbol of the day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She sets her notebook down and looks over the poem again. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But I wanted to know what a teacher assigning the poem might want his or her students to discover. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Call. It’s a poem. In real life he is far away, but she thinks about him all the time, so she feels like he’s real close.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She recited poems to herself and sang softly all the songs she’d learned at school and all the songs Daddy sang. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Allow me to repay you for your wonderful work by sharing a poem—no, not the ‘Hesperus,’ we will save that for later. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But first there’s this poem from Rumi that my dad says sometimes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z After the second week of class, we sat on those library steps and read some of our own poems to each other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Koly, will you find something for the border in one of Tagore’s poems?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone, I think it will be nice if Arturo reads that poem again, don’t you?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They danced to music as a poem was being read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We learn “Scots Wha’ Hae,” and a poem about a mouse, which causes some snickering as it contains the word breast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the front of the yellow cigarette box is a poem by Robert Burns that Gram likes to sing to an old Irish tune: Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Behind him two students discuss the poems of Ben Jonson. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was as proud of the gift as I. It was a soft-leather- bound copy of a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, or, as Bailey and I called him, “Eap.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Does he really want to disagree with those who think that poets and artists stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, and accumulate knowledge about how to write poems and paint pictures? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The poem was interspersed with grunts from the old lady on the bed, which no one except Chacko seemed to notice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me of something in one of those Phillis Wheatley poems I’d read. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I really want to write a poem about all that, but right when I start to, my pencil freezes, and my page stays blank. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I waited all through the morning subjects, hoping Miss Watson might read us another of her favorite poems. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Penelope put the poem down with a sigh; they would return to the Hesperus later. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “So how come you can make up poems right off the top of your head?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “He ever write a poem about you—or me?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “There’s one more thing. Take this book of poems and memorize one for me. Next time you pay me a visit, I want you to recite.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the mood took me, I whistled or recited poems that I made up on the spot. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ever since then, we know that those people who can make magic with their words, who can make poems and sagas and weave tales, have tasted the mead of poetry. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I handed the card over to Vonetta, who did the honors and read the poem out loud in her poetry-reciting voice. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z And when you’re done with your poem, decipher it as if you’d just found it printed in a textbook and knew absolutely nothing about its author. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A stranger entered and gave him another poem, beginning with the words est et non, ‘it is and it is not.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was one particular poem I didn’t want to forget. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe looked a little embarrassed, the way he might if somebody started to recite a poem. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Actually, not a poem he wrote, just a poem he’s gathered. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Besides the other kids, I knew we’d have a living, published poet in the audience, so I’d spent a week memorizing and rehearsing my poem in front of a mirror, if you can believe that. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fluffy clumps of hair fall down like black snowflakes, and it gives me an idea of something to write about in Daddy’s poem notebook. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She remembered the last poem that Mo had read before she fell asleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He wrote Odes in honor of the victors in the games at the great national festivals of Greece, and in every one of his poems myths are told or alluded to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She reads through each poem as Lee Lee cleans off the table and I make lunch. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Every single night before I go to bed, I read this poem aloud to her, wishing for this. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I hadn’t actually ever read the whole poem that line was from, but a couple of the parts I did read got stuck in my head. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z So, everyone asked me to stand up and read the poem. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z You belief a poem must be beautiful, or it is not a poem. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So this is the poem I’m going to turn in for my project: Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Father attached the poem to the glider like a tail. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I forgot to give this back,” I said, and handed Carmen her book of poems, which I had tucked into my apron so I would remember to return it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I get applause after reading my poem, the loudest from Colin, who gives a whistle. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the poem, a traveler is hurrying toward a town, and it is getting darker and darker, and the sea calls to the traveler. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “It’s not just a new prize—it’s also a short poem written in 1841 by the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z You go round and round and round like that, long as you can keep it tight, or until somebody finishes off the poem, or you get tired. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She claimed she read us bedtime stories, wrote us poems, put our baby songs in individual life books. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes a poem can say what we’re able to feel, but unable to put into words ourselves. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He always did Robert Frost poems with us, which were all right, but after a while we started to hate Robert Frost. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He sat in the far corner of the courtyard munching some leftovers Maa had given him and listening to the poem, a dreamy expression on his face. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “No—for the opportunity, crazy. Which reminds me: get to work. And I mean study—not daydream or doodle or write a poem like you usually do.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “You want to know what the poem was about? Why I wrote it?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I put the other poems up on a shelf, but he can climb. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I knew my father and stepmother would be thoroughly amazed, and my mother would see the act of man landing on the moon as cause to write an oppressed woman’s poem. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z For an apple pie that can last for generations, you need the printing press and the Industrial Revolution and maybe even a poem. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “That was a peculiar poem he read, wasn’t it? I would have suggested something from the Phaedo.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Just one poem. A tiny little poem. Please. For me.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The way she dragged her feet made it clear how she felt about the weird, old, dead poem we were reading. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Jesus, Park thought, only Mr. Stessman would make a chubby girl read a poem about eating on her first day of class. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I’ve been writing essays and poems in English my entire life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The thing is, this should be my favorite month of the year, where everything is about poems, and I can just write and write and write. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z As it was, I waited a week or so, then pulled myself together enough to copy the poem out on clean notebook paper and mail it to Lyrics Unlimited. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our Relocation Rules were mostly a mash-up of lines from her favorite poems, novels, and classic country lyrics. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Do you need me to look at your poem? It’s due Monday, right?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He made the honor roll every semester, but unburdened by practicalities, he had daydreams about leaving school, traveling the country à la Jack Kerouac—only writing songs instead of poems. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Descartes tried to find this poem in the book, but the book and the stranger disappeared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the hallway, Elizabeth asks to see my poem. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But then there was that poem she’d looked at without June’s permission, and all the photographs June was taking, and her glass girl drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I read some more poems, but something on the ceiling caught my attention. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Translating's half poem and half crossword and no doddle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lonogan said, “It’s a poem. About hope. I found it on the World Wide Web.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Gay flapped her copy of my poem in my face. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “What do you want the poem to be about?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The poems we read in class were her expressions of love to Robert Browning, her husband. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I was reading this long poem called Howl by Allen Ginsberg for my poetry class, and Gus was rereading An Imperial Affliction. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z His followers chanted poems that sounded beautiful but were in fact messages to motivate girls to stop going to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “All right,” he said, “since you’re so smart, you can make your own dumb maze for your own dumb mouse. I’ll write a poem instead.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z As I’m daydreaming about more images for my poem, Mr. Simmons calls on me, of course. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The way Mr. Birkway read this poem, you could hear the tide rising and falling, rising and falling. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Gerald would read to her late at night, trying to remember the poems and stories that Aunt Queen had read to him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the inside of my closet door, I wrote an epic poem to the new owners telling them the house would always belong to me: Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That Sunday evening, Yoyo was reading some poetry to get herself inspired: Whitman's poems in an old book with an engraved cover her father had picked up in a thrift shop next to his office. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I filled out the entry form, put Annie’s poem in the envelope, and rubbed my lucky Susan B. Anthony dollar against it. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, he died shortly after he wrote the poem by drowning in the San Francisco Bay. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Write down half the stuff you say and it would be a better poem than I’ve ever written.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I spent the little free time I had reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and memorizing a poem for English and keeping up with current events by reading the daily newspaper for my history class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z My mind races as I think about everything that’s happened since I read the poem that first time. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “If they picked the poem, it sounds like they already know.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z When his meal was over, he’d pull a book from his vest, a collection of Keats poems. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I look over at Albert and Keisha, wondering if they put a poem in with my name. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Two butterflies, red and blue, flitted together as if writing poems in the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Ivy blinked, trying to remember the exact words of the poem. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was no poem in my version of the diary, how-ever, and I assumed it must have been included in a different edition. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This image is an illustration from the Persian epic poem The Shahnama, which begins in the mythic past but includes a sequence of real rulers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And the teacher called on him to read this poem. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Now that I know what happened, why she wrote that poem in the first place, I feel awful. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I go back to the poem I started in Mr. Simmons’s class, when a woman with a burned face makes her way through the crowded aisle, asking everyone to spare some change. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Except for Wesley and me, we all pretty much did our old poems. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Every week she gave us vocabulary and spelling lists and a poem to memorize. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When we make our announcement asking the mysterious author of this wonderful poem to please come forward, I wish for back when a pack of birds and fifteen minutes of recess would fix everything. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Seamus comes to the ward three times a week and brings new poems in his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ivy scanned the poem again, noticing the date scribbled at the top. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When I was eleven, it was okay because I excitedly called myself a poem collector and wrote down his words as though they were precious. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I was ten confusing pages into the poem when I got so freaked out that I decided to call the detective. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “Do you remember the words of Okeoma’s poem about making the sun rise if it refused to rise?” she asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z You had to recite a poem to get in. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For years, she had composed poems, scribbled down short story ideas, and dreamed of publication. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I drew pictures around the poem and won the contest. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It's always just a line or two that I found from some poem in the gigantic poetry anthology my sophomore English teacher taught from. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z I thought of the words to the sonnet-ballad poem Miss Watson read to us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z One day he told her he had composed a poem called “The Mango Lady,” based on the accident they’d witnessed, and dedicated it to Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He wants his listener to feel disorientated, or surprised, or intrigued, especially if it fits or enhances the words of the poem. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I said the poems of Homer and Langston Hughes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There were poems and jokes, and LeeAnn had surprised everybody with a completely creepy mystery story that had a new installment every week. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z He sent me dozens of letters and poems. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She copied her favorite poems into a beat-up spiral notebook that she kept with her at all times. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the last name of the five brothers in the Mahabharata poem. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For now, I stay busy coming up with new poems to sell. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z That’s where classrooms full of students cut up my poem, searching for its meaning. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z We stay outside for another hour, me saying poems and Angel writing them all fancy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Lee Lee is writing a poem for Mrs. Baker, and Sam is writing a note to her grandfather. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Only in my poems, I realized, do I get to say exactly what I want. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But she held on tightly to William Spiver, and she listened as her mother read the poem that Ulysses had written. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z My first impression was that it was a love poem. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Every story read every poem remembered: I loved my friend and When I see birches bend to left and right and "Nay," answered the child: "but these are the wounds of Love." Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I don’t want to hear that poem in her voice. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Are you kidding? Most poems are about sex.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Funny thing is, even though I thought Mr. Winston was a weirdo, I actually kinda got this poem, mainly because of church. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I copied the poems down sometimes and included them in my letters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But all I do is sit frozen when Mrs. Fisher reads us a poem about baseball and asks us to write one of our own. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Mama had been so pleased, I wrote her a number of new poems, but none of them turned out as well as the first one had. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Once again I saw the inscription on the fly-leaf of that book of poems, and the curious slanting R. I felt sick at heart and cold. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “My little sisters? My father's sugarcane fields and orange groves? I love reading poems, but there's nothing for me to really write about. Our life is boring.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then I remember a poem about midnight that I seen in one of those poetry books at the library. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z To create the possessive of something that’s normally in quotation marks—for example, the title of a poem, “The Raven”—you would have to put the apostrophe outside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The warriors of the great Latin heroic poem, the Aeneid, far from rejoicing to escape from him, rejoice when they see that they are to fall “on Mars’ field of renown.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And like a poem, the value of art lies equally in what it says and how it says it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She had brought a collection of poems in case she had time to read, and her writing notebook, and her small troll with rhinestone eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Later, after he had gone, I found an awkward note of apology in my mailbox, wrapped around a paperback copy of the poems of Rupert Brooke and a box of Junior Mints. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They were sitting in the library, and they were supposed to be looking for poems. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “When we’re little, one of the first things we learn is the alphabet. Those twenty-six letters make up the millions of words we use, and those words can form anything we want, including poems.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z It was also the golden anniversary of the school, and the school magazine used one of my poems. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “And after you died, they dug you up, and they printed the poems?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I say a few lines of the poem, hoping she might recite them back to me again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Hyacinth had given him stationery with drawings of pandas all over it for his poem, which Oliver thought was weird but his sisters insisted was cute. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In English class today, we discussed one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, and it felt as if something were splintering inside me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I borrowed books of poems from his father and read to him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z One person starts a poem, then the next guy has to step into the rhythm, pick up the poem where the first guy left off, and keep it going. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t a poem. It just happened to rhyme.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “But you didn’t get a poem from me yet.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Next was the family cleanup and a lesson of one kind or another—the alphabet, math, poems, or memorizing the sequence of the presidents of the United States in the order they served. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Stessman was making them all memorize a poem, whatever poem they wanted. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, I guess. But I like the poems that talk about other stuff.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Even so, I still thought about maybe skipping the poem and just playing a piece on my sax. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What footsteps echoed in his mind, what whispers, and what memories, and why, of all poems, must he keep this one in the pocket of his car? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I was reading some poems of Gabriela Mistral and told her so. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She told me she was sorry she had you reciting that poem and getting you shifted from the room, Frankie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He has a beautiful poem called “Poem After Carlos Drummond de Andrade,” which is a reference to the great Brazilian poet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Before my teacher reads the poem, she has to explain. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z And she heard about shared poems and anger and about how anger only makes sense when you’re stuck in the middle of it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I post the poems on the wall like freedom graffiti or tuck them in “her journal,” a journal that I keep only for my mother. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z How many awful poems did I write thinking of her? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “What about a poem from you, young man?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed to write a poem about little fishes. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “I need you. You know you can sink it. And after all, you wrote the stupid poem to begin with. Please...” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The class, preferring verse that rhymed at the end of lines, was silent, not knowing what to think of Gloria’s poem. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z His handwriting was horrible, so it took me a bit longer to read through his poems. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I’m going to rewrite all his poems in English for him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If she couldn’t sing her song, she would recite a poem all by herself. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The rapper’s voice is smooth, as if he’s reciting love poems. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I remembered him reciting a poem at our nika from a scrap of hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The poem was originally written in German but I have it only in translation. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “What is this about the doorjambs? That’s a great moment in the poem, where Whitman—I mean, you can feel him shouting at you: ‘Open the doors! Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I memorized the whole poem because I figured that nobody would keep it safely for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I’m going to print out a copy of Maya Angelou’s poem when I get home and stick it right up on my wall. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Liyana asked Poppy, “Do you remember that Emily Dickinson poem I liked a lot in second grade that starts, I’m nobody, who are you?'” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Park planned to choose a poem that rhymed, so it would be easier to memorize. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I wrote a poem for your abuela, telling her how much I loved her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He even wrote a pretty funny poem about it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Probably it was because they seldom had enough to eat You can read even nowadays a poem written by one of them, which is known as the Vision of Mac Conglinne. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, “Yeah. I don’t read them. Not so much. Just know them by heart. They are old poems. Third grade. Brought those up from my room downstairs when Shayleen moved in. They are acrostics.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z And the fact that Carmen was quoting my poem was epically awesome. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So instead, I tell her about the poem I wrote about Edie. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “They don’t really care. In poems you can’t say plain out what you mean.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z No wonder Dedd has confused Minerva’s exercise and her poem about the falling of night with that sleepless night before their first trip to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Homework — compose a poem about my defeat of the Wagga Wagga Werewolf! Signed copies of Magical Me to the author of the best one!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I’m saying that poem over in my head again and again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Lee Lee is revising her poem one last time, and I am working on the images. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When he was done misquoting the poem on the Statue of Liberty, the youngest, Fifi, asked if she could blow out the candle, and Mami said only after everyone had made a wish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z After everyone told him how beautiful the poem was, I stood up. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Once a poem's left home it doesn't care about you. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He laughed heartily at his joke, reminding me of a ragged version of Clement Moore’s Saint Nick from the old poem “The Night Before Christmas.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This poem was accompanied by an illustration of a black bird almost exactly like the one used in place of the seagull in the Bayside Press symbol. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I folded the poem and put it back into my pocket, next to the picture of Abuelo dressed as José Martí. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His poems are about people and moments and polishing tiny nuggets of truth. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z As unobjectionable a date as any is 1000 B.C.—at any rate for the Iliad, the older of the two poems. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z That, and a haiku-style poem I found in the hotel room where Seymour shot himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z All the poems and the sayings were done in lively, or lovely, hands. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The prophecy was written like a poem, in four parts. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, the Witch received a poem from the Beast of the Bog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As song, the poem passes between sound and sense, never belonging for long to one realm or the other. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Other than the scribbles all over it now, it’s a pretty good poem. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z But I only saw half, and ignored the other side of the poem: “The simple News that Nature told—With tender Majesty.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean the poem you were trying to figure out at the coffee shop?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z And standing in front of the class taking my poem from her my voice shakes as I recite the first line: Black brothers, Black sisters, all of them were great. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He had written many popular German plays and poems in his time, and had married a famous German actress named Resi North. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Finnick recites a poem he wrote to his one true love in the Capitol, and about a hundred people faint because they’re sure he means them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s about an hour to Thirty-Fourth Street in Manhattan, where my favorite barber is, and this poem won’t write itself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Charlie says, like I’m supposed to be excited that she drew over my poem about rain. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Not that I needed a copy of the poem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When Roosevelt wasn’t reciting the haunting poem, he talked randomly. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He wrote the poem while he was waiting for a child to die. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was carrying a book of poems, a sketch pad, and some charcoal pencils. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “This poem was the first message. I could tell they were sad, so I wrote back. I’m dying to know who it is, though. Any ideas?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She had gotten used to the nuns, a literature of appropriate sentiments, poems with a message, expurgated texts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But after reading both of them again and thinking it over, I had to admit that my poem was pretty lame and Annie’s was better. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And it reminds me of a line from a Walt Whitman poem my dad sometimes whispers to my mom: There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I want to check to see if whoever wrote that poem responded to my message. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Liszt’s symphonic poems, on the other hand, were a departure from this trend in that they intended to conjure up in music the pictures or the stories themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He did manage to catch a vivid sense of the plague in one memorable poem called “Pestilence.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Ev,” Tuttle told the lady, then said to me, “I am fond of the old poems.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z As he thought this, he remembered a poem the Mellower used to recite to them in the nursery. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was still open to the poem June never showed Ivy, the poem Ivy never should have read. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Friday is two days away, and I know exactly what poem I’m going to read. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I grab a pillow and a handkerchief, throw on my robe and slippers and dash next door to Father, just the way Margot described in this birthday poem: The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I am embarrassed to admit that I wrote a poem for Kelly J. for Valentine’s Day—not embarrassed that I wrote it, but embarrassed that I gave it to someone so mean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She had to read her poem out loud, and everybody laughed, which really pleased her, as that’s what she’d hoped for. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Now comes the Spotted Cat. See how he moves, my queen. A poem on two feet.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Esteban finished reading the poem and carefully put it back into his notebook. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Do you know what Mr. Porter said before handing out my poem? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He folded the poem carefully and put it back in his pocket. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I read everyone the poem about my grandmother. I’m dying to see what your favorite food is.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Reading 2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Diondra’s hands were shaking the whole time she was holding that poem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whoever wrote the poem said they are tired of hiding their true feelings. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It had a symbolism that wasn’t in the other poems, and it also involved the poet’s ideas about the moral responsibility of the mariner. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I read her bubbly writing of a poem called “I, Too.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Wrote a poem for you. The assignment was: Find a small treasure and offer a gratitude for living in a free country. I wrote it this morning, before the rain.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I don’t write a poem after all, but poetry has helped me get my feelings out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s not a poem yet, just the start of one. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And this Light Brigade poem started the same way—charging into the valley of death. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I even offered to read some of Tagore’s poems to him, but he merely shook his head. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I wrote the poems on notecards and attached them to the broom handle or placed them in my shirt pocket and memorized them as I cleaned the offices after school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He was happy because he had the words from Tootie’s poem flowing through his head and heart. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He looked tired but happy as he unfolded the poem, holding the page at its edges. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the poem that made the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I pull out my beat-up composition notebook try to write another butterfly poem. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “I just want to say I’m sorry, too. For not admitting I was the one who wrote the poem. I should’ve just told you.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The only thing that seems even a little surprising is a bit of doggerel, a love poem in Prince Dain’s hand, about a woman who remains unidentified, except by her “sunrise hair” and “starlit eyes.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So the speech must have rhythm, but not meter; otherwise it will be a poem. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare’s powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z That it would be poems and pictures and questions. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And in a stroke of genius, Kevin holds up lines of his poems on large white cards as he speaks about the writer’s life. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She kept a razor blade at the office and cut out poems and stories she liked for her scrapbooks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I read her this poem I wrote called “Dream” about doing hip-hop with my own band, and she started crying. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I let Angel read the poem I came up with for Miz Ida. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z When anyone in the family asks what I'm writing, I usually say, Nothing or A story or A poem and only my mother says, Just so long as you're not writing about our family. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z English teachers assigned the composition of short stories and poems. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had composed a lengthy poem for the event, her “Columbian Ode,” and pestered her many powerful friends into having it placed on the day’s program. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I promise myself to hang Caleb’s poem on the wall with Daddy’s and the one from the library. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They made up their own songs as well as poems that others set to music. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She clears her throat and then recites a poem from Shakespeare. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She says, “I think so,” and holds up a poem by Martin Espada. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “It’s a poem,” said Flora’s mother, “by Ulysses. It’s for Flora.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The poems almost always came back, and I would send them out again, asking no more than that by their absence they would offer the promise of immortality. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She left a message asking if we planned on doing a love poem duet for assembly in a few weeks. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The story behind the book was that she saw a movie that talked about one poem that compares this woman’s hands to flowers and rain. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He would tell them in simple words, always the same way, and with the years it came to be a sort of angry poem which he had always known by heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Why don't you just read us one of those poems from your little book,” Mrs. Phelps nodded. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only person in class who'd read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I took out the recorder, turned the volume down low and played the last poem Esteban had read to us, his sweet voice filling the classroom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Everything turned fiery red and gold like in that Robert Frost poem in The Outsiders. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z My mom ran her fingers through my hair, and rocked me back and forth, even though I was standing, and she said, like a poem, “You’ve got your father’s eyes and my nose.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Milton writing love letters and even, after reading Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress” at night school, love poems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I had never written a poem in my life. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her poems were weird, all dashes and confusing words. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I wrote every day, and I’ve kept a journal since then, with poems about my pet goldfish, the weather, food, and most recently, love, heartbreak, and beauty, or lack thereof. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Our close friend Elizabeth Alexander, the poet who’d written a poem for Barack's first inauguration, spoke to the class, which meant that Barack and I got to sit back and just feel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And someday, I’m sure of it, kids will be forced to analyze his poems out of a textbook. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Is that what that poem was about? The one I read?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He read some lines from a poem called “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Paper and ink, poems and my postbox are medicines that heal the wounds of a fife without freedom. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly, after I finished a poem, he said, "Esther, have you ever seen a man?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Telling him which poem somehow feels too personal to share even after the admission that I converse with dead relatives. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Mam says the poem but she laughs all through it and I don’t know why, He came from the North so his words were few But his voice was kind and his heart was true. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then I go home by myself and write poems at my kitchen table, like William Carlos Williams. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The poem wasn’t about my mom, you said. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, This is the poem I wrote that Ms. G asked me to read to Richard Riley at the dinner. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Eric writes a poem about my hair and skin and eyes and lips. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She had my poem printed and waiting on every place setting. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Instead, while Sticky helped them practice, she composed a poem about a bunch of bossy gargoyles who liked to eat cat food and pick their ears. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I mean, we worked on the poetry project and all, but she never said she wrote poems. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I write quotes, poems, and journal stories almost every day so that I can escape reality, because sometimes it’s unbearable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Something like: Had he forgotten to introduce these youngsters so they could come up and read the poem they had written? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All that was missing was Cecile to see and hear us recite her poem. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. I reply, verse is 'made.' But the word 'make' is unsufficient for a true poem. 'Create' is unsufficient. All words are insufficient. Because of this. The poem exists before it is written.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There’s a poem by Honorable Scythe Socrates—one of the first scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Silversmith, printmaker, businessman, and patriot, Revere has acquired heroic status thanks to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s long poem about his legendary midnight ride, and Copley’s painting has become virtually an American icon. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Two young women stood back-to-back performing a slam poem called “Hir,” rotating to face the mic as they gave voice to a girl named Melissa and the boy inside her named James. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Her features were clear-cut enough to justify the poems written to her in London and even here in Boston, comparing her to a classic goddess. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu knew the poem: If the sun refuses to rise, we will make it rise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I’d rather write a poem than work on your dumb maze for your dumb mouse,” answered Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z On the day the poems were read in class it was mostly funny stuff or poems about how they loved their mothers. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But she got down our Gems of Spanish Poetry and quoted me another poem by the same poet: May the limitations of love not cast a spell On the serious ambitions of my mind. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side was written a poem, a sonnet. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “That poem always goes through my head this time of day,” Dede explains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Next thing I know, I’m digging my old rap poems out of my dresser drawer and bringing them to school. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Delacruz gave a little smile and said, “It’s a poem,” and continued on his way out to the yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cecile seemed to care about were her poems and her peace and quiet. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I read him poems and stories, sometimes riddles—though I stopped reading those when I saw he was far better at solving them than I was. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He’s always answering every question and making sure we understand what he’s doing in his poems. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z She repeated the next lines of the poem. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Three people wrote poems about Martin Luther King, Jr. Half the class just listened to the poems and hoped they wouldn’t be called on to read theirs out loud. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a worn clipping in the purse, a poem she had torn out of an Oklahoma newspaper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Aeneid, the greatest of Latin poems, is the chief authority for this story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She was making a poem and I was inside the poem with her. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A fact about George: He loves to repeat poems. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In seventh class he hands out a small book, a poem that goes on for pages and pages, The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I like to write stories and poems now and then. And sketch.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When I’m feeling better, I look at the library letter hanging on the wall next to Daddy’s poem and the picture of me and him together. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Could Miles have written the poem because he’s struggling with being one of the only Black kids at school? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I grab my book bag and journal, and one of my poems falls out. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z We’d use red, black, and green paint, the same colors as the ink Cecile used for her poems and whatever flyers the Panthers asked her to print up. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I happened to have it with me, in my suitcase, so I got it out and copied down the poems that were written on it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I cut out each word of the poem, already imagining how I would rearrange them for a new poem. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z When I finished reading the poem, I got a standing ovation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z On the surface, he said, the poem was about acceptance—acceptance from my mother. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Then we’ll have to plug them!” the twins shouted, as though it was the second line of a well-known poem. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I want her to make fun of me for writing poems in my notebook. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Minerva is burying all her poems and papers and letters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Weaves comes on and I get the first few lines of a poem in my head and write them down. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The poem ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Across the hall, someone recited a poem I knew by heart. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “You can use these to pin pictures and poems on the wall,” he said, handing me a portrait of the governor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I bought a spiral notebook to keep all of my poems in one place. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Esteban climbed down from the window seat and pulled the poem from his pocket. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I was already keeping reading and writing poems a secret; I would just add dancing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Aureliano ended up forgetting about him, absorbed in the composition of his poems, but on one occasion he thought he understood something of what Melquíades was saying in his groping monologues, and he paid attention. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A book of poems by E. E. Cummings. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, the old people are gone so the next thing to do is find the section that has poems that tell stories. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Lazlo had found a few passages over the years, though the poem in its entirety had never found its way to Zosma. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He brushed off my question about what poem it was, but he did explain how he’d gotten it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The poems of Sylvia, maybe, but the other two have written some pretty long books, to say the least. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He said that reading a poem by an unknown member of our school was the same as reading a classic poem by a dead poet. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She had tired almost instantly of the Poe poems they had read from Naomi’s English book, but Beto adored their “gloomy splendor.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z This story, so like the Renaissance idea of the classical—fantastic, delicately decorated, bright-colored—is taken entirely from a poem of the third-century Alexandrian poet Moschus, by far the best account of it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She sat with me while I ate dinner and I told her about the poems Miss Watson read to us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Rishi was fairly certain he could write an epic poem about it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Joey, that was the gayest thing I ever did. Well, except for the time I wrote a poem to Seanie.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes, she would put her head on his shoulder—after a poem about birds or something—and cry inconsolable tears. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And she did give them code—eleven sets of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Candice ran her hand along the words of the poem, then traced her finger across James Parker’s name. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z One evening Raji came to the courtyard while I was reading the poem about the homeless bird. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I say, “This is him, Calvin. This is Benny Kilmartin. He wrote the acrostic poem. The one in my room. You remember?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I did write some poems which I showed my parents. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He seemed to get such pleasure from it that I handed Raji the book and asked him if he would like to read some of the poems. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She went back to reading aloud a tragic love poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson—who, I guess, couldn’t figure out how to punctuate his own name. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She assigns us to write an acrostic of our names, which is a poem where, for each letter of your name, you describe yourself with a word or phrase that starts with that letter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was too different—took seriously things that even girls ought not to take very seriously: paintings, poems, the music she played on the piano. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The air on my face is cool and swift, like a poem. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But by imitating such sound, the poem helps me recall the intimate times of my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For the epilogue, he writes a poem, modeled after one of Okeoma’s poems. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He’d take careful note of the line number, and then check the table of contents to see how many poems had come before this one. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Looking out over the class, I remember some of the other poems I heard people working on. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He had first expressed an interest in setting the poem to music when he was in his early twenties, before the full weight of the Napoleonic Wars began to envelop Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And he knows his poems by heart, no less. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This is our little game—one of us quotes a line of a poem, and the other quotes a line in response. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When I became more proficient, Mam went into the shabby trunk beside her bed and brought out a hardback book of poems, blue with gold trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Do you have a poem for us, though? From your head?” she asked, and sounded desperate even to herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Aeschylus tells the tale splendidly, but in his hands it is a stirring martial poem. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a pang in my chest and remember a line from a poem I read a long time ago about terror being the beginning of beauty. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When she says this, I immediately think of my poems. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I even recited Mr. Silverstein’s poem. That one that is our favorite. That is when you came.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We joked on like that till it was time to go, and just as he was going he handed me a piece of paper with a poem on it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Open Mike Friday and I’d shown up with my saxophone case in one hand and a folded-up poem in the other. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I rack my brain to try to think what could be in these poems that would get us in trouble. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z In my head, what I wrote read like the most exquisite poem ever committed to paper by a ten-year-old. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It seemed to me like a doctor’s poem. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Then, like I hadn’t said a word, he continued with the corny poems with lines like “back on your feet” and “love is the best medicine.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She’ll open and close the event with two of her poems. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Abuela slid her finger between the pages to open the book and then pointed to the first poem again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So it would have been in a poem, surely, if Unferth were a character, good or evil, heroic or not. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no more stories, no games, even no small unorthodox poems. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I ask, imagining Angel saying the poem with an attitude. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z He hugged his poem closer, and the paper crackled and sighed. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “He smuggled his poems into that bonfire Dad lit for his Greenland paperwork. He told me the fire turned all his poems into masterpieces.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Please note, Mrs. Miller, that the “connection to the assignment” is that it involves two roads diverging—not in a yellow wood, like in Frost’s poem—but someplace else. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In later poems she is usually shown as treacherous and malicious, exerting a deadly and destructive power over men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole poetry project got me into reading Langston Hughes poems, so when Mr. Shephard walks by again, I ask if he’s ever heard of him. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars. Dying stars.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I was removed from the logic that had once made my stories and poems easily accessible. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Read those poems in all kinds of American, son. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I can’t get out a poem when I try to write in my notebook later, but at least I have a few words to add. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Big-bellied sails, they used to say, in poems. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The poem was about her, and he had wanted her to know it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I crack open my window and whisper my poem into the wind, praying it will carry the message to her, bring her back to me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “You better write a poem about the people, or else.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Her voice changed when she got to certain parts of the poem. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Vonetta spent most of her time separating out the different poems; and in between, she read them. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a very few fragments of his poems have come down to us. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sounds like a good poem,” Jake says and gives me a half smile. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Often I had tried to put the Yangtse River into a poem so I could keep it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I remember one of the poems I wrote in Darlene: Who travels a road full of twists, turns, cracked earth, and flooded paths? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But the mother seemed not to notice the subject of the poems, or if she did, to ascribe the love scenes to her Yoyo's great imagination. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She flipped through the junk at the beginning and came to the first poem. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z This was not Mount Sebastian, it was another world, where there were no pretty poems or midterm exams, a place where men died because of carelessness and gross stupidity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s from a poem about how people trust things will work out even when life gets messy.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She is called, indeed, in an early poem, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “For three poems about me that will echo down through the ages.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The last time I shared my poems in public was for the after-school performance in June, and even that was only for the kids who had taken that poetry class. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the case of a poem, a poem, I must create it.’” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I will now read this poem of Mr. Blakeslee’s choosing. He wrote that he found it in a old book.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I said, “What if all the people could recite all of your poems?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Since you’re familiar with the kinds of poems people write each other on St. Nicholas Day, I won’t copy them down for you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Then he asks the class, “Just glancing at the samples in our book, which takes up less space on the page? A poem or a story?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In his poem “Epilogue,” Robert Lowell asked, “Yet why not say what happened?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The second line of this poem by Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B," goes on to ask: "I wonder if it's that simple?" Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I want Miss Love to know that the line in the poem about ‘Love’s purest joys restored’ means I want her to try to find a way to be happy after I am gone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The English for part of the poem goes like this: A lake of new milk I beheld In the midst of a fair plain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously, though? I think most poems are about sex. Robert Herrick wrote a poem called ‘To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.’” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It's about this photographer lady and this dude who writes poems and they like each other, then they hate each other, then they love each other, and then it's over. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z BREN: So, Arturo, perchance does that hook of Cuban rapper poems belong to a special someone who popped into your life the other day after so many years apart? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z That poem was the result of an extreme emotional situation. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z "So, you're going to memorize a poem," Mr. Stessman continued, pausing a moment to smile down at Park like Gene Wilder in the chocolate factory. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z In school it was poems I liked best—Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I need to tell her how much I love . . . how much I love her poem. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not really, I couldn’t get the poem to go anywhere. I was going to throw it out, but now it’s the first verse of our song.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z When I lay down in bed that night, I put on the Billie Holiday record, and I started reading the book of e. e. cummings poems. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z When I pressed him about the rest of the poem, these were the only other lines he would give me: Come to the crossroads, to the crossroads come Where the powers converge and become one. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She made it her business to read that poem so she did and I’d be well advised to tell the priest in confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “She'll be fine in a few minutes. Just enough time for me to compose a poem about our victory: Apollo and his friends save Olympus.’ The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Lefty gave us his magnificently written poem which he could never reduplicate because he had lost his hand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A small man with a birdlike face and fluffy hair, he read a lengthy poem dedicated to Soraya, jotted down on hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kazilly has made us do enough poems that I’m not fooled by the tricks that poets play with words. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “I was just looking for that glass girl poem.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Of course, that means I have to write a poem, so I better get busy. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he wants his poem to look as good as his self-portrait. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The older, more powerful ones are membranous, packed with layers of different meaning, like one-word poems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He gives us all a disappointed look and says to Chelsea, “Not even one poem?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes Roza was locked out all night, and she was forced to camp out on the lumpy lounge couches, a poem by Wislawa Szymborska beating in her head: Four a.m., no one feels fine. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He says the poem and everyone in the ward loves it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He spent his nights alone, wrote romantic poems in his journal, took pleasure in the grace and beauty of differential equations. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They didn’t have journals full of sad poems, and they didn’t smile from ear to ear when Ivy taught them how to draw cute animals and glass girls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I pictured myself eating three-tiered chocolate cake for breakfast throughout the entire month, staying up an hour after bedtime writing high-caliber stories and poems. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It was a poem written by the Drunken Genius, Lee the White, who drowned one night when he tried to embrace the moon as it appeared on the lake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The copies of my poems Rudy handed back had on them brief, inane remarks I read and reread for double meaning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then Vonetta suggested, “Maybe they want her to write a poem.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z —Like the lady said in the poem—you mindin’ your own black business and all this white stuff jus’ takes over your life. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That first week, we simply laughed about the poems the other people had written and read. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “I see. I think it’s best that I assigned you a story to write over the summer and not a poem. Still, I know a good rhyme can calm the soul.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was at recess, after Ms. Harrison had read us poems in class. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I read his poem over and over, and think about how he used to tuck me and Charlie in and say, “Good night, my precious jewel.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I liked the poem, which turned out to be “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I said, “My mother don’t bake no pies. My mother writes poems about the revolution. My mama exists. Your mama’s invisible.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There are songs about the heart and poems about the heart and legends about the heart and facts about the heart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Once he drew in his breath, as though startled to recognize his own half-known thoughts: and when the poem was ended he seemed to be struggling to come to himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear my uncle drag his suitcase across the floor above me as I listen to Esteban read his father’s poem. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And just like that, Mr. Hughes’ poem disappears. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Sensei wrote a poem on the board, and they all recited it together: A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She gave me three more poems by stupid Percy Bysshe Shelley that she was sure I would enjoy. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I’m looking through all the pictures but I don’t see no poems. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I put away my journal and lie in bed, reciting this narrative as if it is a poem I’ve decided to learn by heart. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was in The Crisis that many of the stories, poems, and visual creations of those who were at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance were published. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was sort of a rap poem, and I thought it was pretty good. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They left stuffed animals, notes, ribbons, pieces of clothing, books, flowers, Bibles, flattened pennies, poems, photographs, jewelry, tiny trinkets. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She’s read each of the short stories and poems and articles a dozen times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. K. tells us to find a poem by Mr. Hughes, then write a poem kinda like it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He thought about the words he would like to add to his poem. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z At first she had started to write a poem along with it, but she couldn’t think of ideas to fit the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Joy goes on excitedly, “And since you know Spanish, I’d like you to read these poems by José Marti. He was the great independence leader of Cuba.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Then we lay down side by side on the bed and Buddy sipped his wine while I read aloud "somewhere I have never travelled" and other poems from a book I'd brought. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Food poems,” she clarifies, raising a hand to stop the chatter. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “He is a gentleman. Is it because he came here to sit with us? The man reads poems and Shakespeare. Correct Englishman.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Francie was sitting at the kitchen table pasting poems in old notebooks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “She sort of left me this book of poems before she, uh, disappeared.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Latha’s eyes flicked towards him for permission to continue with the poem. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard for me to really understand most of the poems inside, but Gram has made little notes in the margins. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z No one must ever ask where another rabbit was and anyone who asked ‘Where?’—except in a song or a poem—must be silenced. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But here was a flesh and blood man, belching and laughing and sweating in poems. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He decided to put my entire poem on the home page of their website, which was pretty cool. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I was no longer looking for clues in the poem so much as I was looking for Margo herself. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The poem Father composed for my birthday is too nice to keep to myself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And if she ever wrote one of those acrostic poems from her name, well, that would be very long. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Your best poem in here”—she rifled through the parish magazines—“is your ‘Hangman.’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The poem went like this: Upon my bed Lies the bright moonlight Like frost upon the earth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him about @Dunn Poems and how we sell poems. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z To answer her, I write poems about the cruelty of mothers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “It is the heart of the world. It is the womb of the world. It is the poem that made the world. I am the Bog, and the Bog is me.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Mary had lovely golden curls, and her candy heart had a poem on it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That is one whole poem written by a doctor named William C. Williams. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yolanda often read poems addressed to lovers, sonnets set in bedrooms, and she knew her mother did not believe in sex for girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The combination seems impossible, but the poems are here to prove it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the same thing as a poem. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And then he would write her another poem. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “The Falklands was on while I was writing the poem,” I answered. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I hope I can stay awake long enough to read my poem when my turn comes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The poem was by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” I tell him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The rich food filled her with elation, but she was too shaken by the presence of the leopard to make up a victory poem. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The little ones were told to write short word stories or poems about Christmas. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The form corse is sometimes used in poetry; as in the poem on the Burial of Sir John Moore: New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “But no, those words come from a poem written by the esteemed poet and linguist Master Lumumba. Do you know what they mean?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “But you guys wrote a whole song based on your poem?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He walks toward Axel with his head low, eyes lower, like he’s asking permission to go on this adventure, like this might be one of those trips George reads poems about. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The same way “We Real Cool” was a good poem for reciting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged, and wrote back, Or maybe she just read the poem on two different days with two different highlighters. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z At the end, as he was leaving, the president recited a poem he’d composed on the ride up from the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Later they showed me magazines designed exclusively for mobile dwellers, stories and poems and hints for successful mobile living. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Over it, in a gleaming chromium frame, was a big square of parchment—a poem. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “It was in his poem if you listened.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He read the poem to her, J. P. Clark’s “Ibadan,” and he lingered on the words “running splash of rust and gold.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z So I set the poems aside, bundle up, and take Boomer out to our own autumn forest. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Seamus says a man in his pub knew all the verses of the highwayman poem and it has a very sad end. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When we listen to a song, a musical phrase usually accompanies a phrase of lyrics; a verse or refrain emerges from a short poem. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Like your poem says, the journey prepares us for the ‘journeys beyond.’” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As for her, beyond all the films she had seen, and all the novels and lyrical poems she had read, she had no experience at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Stessman didn't stop her, so she read the whole poem in that cool, defiant voice. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I'm sure she wouldn’t have appreciated Vonetta sprinkling “black” into her poem like pepper, but the crowd loved it, and we went along, following Vonetta’s lead, throwing in the word black as she had. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “They don’t send the Black Panthers to your house to make you write a poem,” I said. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid with the best poem would be chosen to shoot the million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Radium, where my father worked, covered with poems, or short critiques of books or plays. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The general feeling on the farm was well expressed in a poem entitled Comrade Napoleon, which was composed by Minimus and which ran as follows: Friend of fatherless! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I flip through it to see that someone—Gram, probably—has underlined certain phrases and words and starred some of the poems. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When he took a break, she would sometimes read a poem to him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I was very unhappy and wrote droopily sad poems about death and isolation that reflected the way I felt. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I want to ask him more about the blink and the powerful eyes but he says, Now do you remember the poem, Frankie, the lovely poem of Patricia? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z With that one, I told him, the poem had to speak for itself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “My heavens! You don’t have a poem, too, do you, Cassiopeia? If you do, I think I shall have to lie down for the rest of the day to get over the shock.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Kids who sharpen their pencils, go to the board to do math problems, and open their books to read a poem. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And hadn’t they added trivia just last year in Aunt Nancy’s effort to stop George from talking through dinner with his poems? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This was one of Ms. G’s questions after we read this poem. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z If I’d had to hear one more poem that started with, There once was a goddess from Sparta—” “I’ve got it!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Afterward, I would try to read a piece of prose, a poem or a play with the same articulateness and clarity of the station. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Gregor finished the poem and didn’t know quite what to say. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I heard a poem, seeping from its cracks. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “It is a simple ceremony. Many bats and humans gather. You stand face-to-face with your bat and say a vow. Like so,” said Luxa, extending her hand and reciting a poem. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This poem was accompanied by an illustration of a black bird almost exactly like the one used in place of the seagull in the Bayside Press symbol. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z And he would like to work on his own poem. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z It’s not that I love the poem, I mean I do, but it’s mostly just nice to know that there’s someone as weird as I am in this school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, without even trying, I memorized the very first poem in that notebook. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The whole class had to memorize the poem, and we were all assigned roles. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She hands me a book of poems called Harlem Shadows. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z He said he didn’t know nothing about poems, but when he left everything else behind, he kept the words she wrote tied in a ribbon and brought them all the way to Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Arturo, I think I just posted a quote from your poem on our website!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Anyway, I dare you to find one misspelled word in that poem of his! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I make up another poem about an exploding sandwich, and everyone laughs. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Return next Saturday, three o'clock, I tell you more reasons why your poems fail. Or do not return. An hundred other works are waiting.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There is no story, no poem, about her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The words of the poem come tumbling in my head, and I start to smile. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z She suspected she did not have the right kind of brains either, my father the one who can recite whole poems. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sounds like a poem,” Vega said to Rose. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Of course, I had no idea what his poems meant. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Like when Mrs. Ogilvy asked, “How did the poem make you feel?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Underneath is a collection of Wordsworth poems, a Bible, and a book of plays by Oscar Wilde. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But if a poem is beauty and truth, your Miss Madden will treasure your words more than money, more than certificates. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “We got a few poems today that were half decent,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z On the walls above the ironing boards were strips of thick, bright red paper with poems and sayings on them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I would take my notebook and write dark poems, which I would often later discard. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Any idea why Eliot Bolivar stopped writing poems for the parish magazine?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I talked to him about the argument in Washington, but he was much more interested in preparing me to hear his poem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were several quotes highlighted in blue, all from the epically long poem known as “Song of Myself.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I knew it was a romantic poem, but that day, it felt about us, our private mother-daughter thing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I write my “In Common” poem in her book and sign my name all fancy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z It was a Japanese loneliness, something she’d learned about from studying poems in school—just a sense that everything at that exact moment was kind of perfect, and yet also really sad. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were poems in the collection, too, including one called “The Raven.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “What if we have poems printed out that people can read if they want?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Just as Kendra returned her attention to the latest poem, Seth burst into the room, breathing hard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Waiting for a child to die is not an occasion for writing a poem here in Kilanga: it isn’t a long enough wait. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote many poems, but this one has grown to be my personal favorite. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But I, being poor, have only my dreams, thought Joseph, remembering the Yeats poem. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He grabbed the book of poems away from me and went looking for a poem. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I’ve talked to her a lot about my writing, so I ask her if I could read her a poem I wrote last night when I couldn’t sleep. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I wanted to write my poems and read them in a bar filled with shiny-faced admirers and then fall drunk and be carried off to a movie star’s bed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Say what you like. He loved it. I bet he’s writing a poem about it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even I don't see the real Jason Taylor much these days, 'cept for when we're writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Nommo comes from the mouth, like water vapor, he said: a song, a poem, a scream, a prayer, a name, all these are nommo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone has written a poem, and a musician has set that poem to music with a beat. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her teacher said that Emily hadn’t gone out in public a lot and that her poems were never read when she was alive. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I put in Sass chatting with her friends in the courtyard and Sassur reading from Tagore’s book of poems. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Last year in Ms. Harrison’s class,” Angel says, “you said that poem about my hair to Sneaky.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Once he switches it on, it’s like you become somebody else, and you can say anything, as long as it’s in a poem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The African Americans who come to our meetings are the ones who write poems about Mother Africa and think every African is a Nubian queen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After school, and time with Ray, and George’s poems, Axel makes his way to his favorite perch: the bay window that looks out over the twist of the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They were his poetry, the poems inspired by Remedios, which he had taken with him when he left, and those he had written later on during chance pauses in the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Fisher calls our names, and we walk to the front and set up our giant poster, which is filled with the words from all the poems we liked. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z George knows the best poems, like this one about thinking time in the woods, and others too, like the one about the golden eagle soaring above the mountains in the morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When Bailey and I read poems together, he sounded like a fierce Basil Rathbone and I like a maddened Bette Davis. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That night Colonel Aureliano Buendía was finishing the poem about the man who is lost in the rain when the girl came into his room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Without books in the peach stand, I often passed the time making up poems, but that slow afternoon I didn’t have the patience for rhyming words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She saved their drawings, helped with homework, offered advice, and shared funny poems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Still, in the hierarchy of things, a poem seemed much more important than a potty that played music when a toilet-training toddler went in its bowl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She thought he was a talented writer and had encouraged him to submit a twenty-four-line poem called “Summer Storm” to a statewide poetry competition. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I do have a poem in my head.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It be like their spirits are inside you, remaking you into something better and bolder every time you say their names, read their poems, learn their legacy. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Narrative Movements: It is easy to add narrative movements to most children’s rhymes as these poems often tell some type of story. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The second day she lifted her hand to flip open a book of poems by Emily Dickinson, trying an experiment. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “But they also can be used for new poems. Like this.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She whispered a poem: “The storm is past, no more repining Behold! the gentle sun is shining” “Yeah,” muttered Charles, “but the track is still too heavy for Seabiscuit.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Last night I had seen him copy out the poem from the strip Lefty had given him, but he would not tell me why. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After I read the poem that compares the woman’s hands to flowers and rain, I put the book down and went to the window. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I want to wander through the park with her and write poems in my notebook. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Something about the dark night, but I was pretty sure the poem wasn’t about Batman. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She studied poetry and the plays of William Shakespeare, and she wrote poems of her own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He quickly read his favourite poem, the one his friend had underlined, and then set the book by the fire to dry with the others. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Apparently, Bobby didn’t see the discrepancy between the gentle acceptance espoused by the song and poem, and his growing philosophy of exclusivity, which rejected all people who didn’t believe as he did. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Saintima’s accent, with its hint of something special from when she grew up in Haiti, adds music to the poem. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They’d sit together for hours listening to the rhythm of the sea and the poems her mother recited as if in a dream. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I listen to Lee Lee read her poem, and I want to say something more profound, but all I can think of is, “Wow, Lee Lee, that’s really good.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I did not laugh, even though this was a poem he said very badly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is a book of poems by somebody called Gerard Manley Hopkins. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “This”—she started, her voice vibrating like her hands—“this is a poem for Nancy.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mama Carmen had passed along the poem to help her understand the legacy. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Slowly, I open my notebook and show her my poem. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It’s hard to describe Farsi chanting: the way Mom drew her voice out like the notes of a cello as she recited poems by Rumi or Hafez. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to correct her, but the song was based on a poem written by a German soldier during the first war. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You think Howard will take a collection of poems in place of an essay?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “It’s a hell of a good poem,” I tell her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z On the subway, I read one of the poems in that book Rose’s gran had given me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “She gave me a poem. She said she wanted to inspire me.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z After I turn it in, it occurs to me that the rhyme and the rhythm of my poem really, really suck. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Brush sent me into the teepee to recopy the poem neatly for the printer. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z A voice spoke from the study ceiling: “Mrs. McClellan, which poem would you like this evening?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Langston Hughes’ poem comes into my head, drowning out her whispering that ain’t really whispering ’cuz Mrs. Robins can hear her clear in front of the room. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Even in Heaven they look down and notice. My father says they do. He knows a poem about it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you remember the poem he wrote about you? The one about you being beautiful?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z But no one picked her up on it, and we went back to discussing our poem. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper printed Brother James’s whole long dern memorial poem about her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It is made up of separate poems, often about the same story, but never connected with each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So when I got home, I wrote this poem. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I wrote her a poem after I saw her in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I didn’t show it to her because I was embarrassed. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Rather forlorn, more than a little dissatisfied, I leant back in my chair and took up the book of poems. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta was supposed to introduce us and say the name of our poem and that our mother wrote it But I could see her eyes growing big and her face ashen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like we study in stories, poems. Water is life.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I slipped out a thin collection of poems and short stories. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Orange ones, of course, in honor of Halloween, while she read poems about pumpkins and ghosts. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Then she glanced at the body of the poem. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z When I asked if he had really written it, he acknowledged that another inmate had helped him, but his excitement about the poem was undiminished. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Please don’t make me share my dumb poems with you. Reading someone’s poetry is like seeing them naked.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z All along, I thought this was about that stupid poem. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z That guy wrote a whole bunch of love poems that my papi would read to the family. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Probably looking at the moon and reciting some poem from the T’ang Dynasty.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I was in my nightgown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But when it was time for Kitty to read her poem, she said, “I’m going to read my poem to Mack.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope the poem is only three floors long. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I didn’t get her first few poems, but I dig this one. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise—the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream—be set down alive? Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He answered that it didn’t, but Ferdowsi would be appalled that an Arab knew more about his epic poem than a nice Persian girl. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “You know,” the guy continued, “just about every poem we received was one of those dreadful rap poems. But yours was so simple, so dignified, and so American. And yet, it sounded almost.. . British.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I hoped at least she'd say something about the poem's descriptions of dusk and moonlight and darkness. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z BREN: Then why are you reading her hook of Cuban love poems? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I didn’t like Ivanhoe, hated The Prince and the Pauper, tolerated the poems, and loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A couple days a week, after school, I’d go to Monet’s and write a poem or two. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z In the cafeteria that day, Esteban asked if he could record the poems he had read to us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And yes, I had that stutter and lisp, but I also had that singsong reservation accent that made everything I said sound like a bad poem. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The editor of Left Front accepted two of my crude poems for publication, sent two of them to Jack Conroy’s Anvil, and sent another to the New Masses, the successor of the Masses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were poems in the collection, too, including one called “The Raven.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The poems started out in the standard way, but once the Mellower got going, he added the desired compliments. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I grab the poetry anthology and flip to an Emily Dickinson poem and read the title out loud: “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Vonetta was supposed to introduce us and say the name of our poem and that our mother wrote it But I could see her eyes growing big and her face ashen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There was also an upturned dustbin lid with an inch of rainwater inside, and the incomplete tea-ring stain on the cover of his Housman poems. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Maybe they could show me how to write the poem I had wanted to write months earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She spoke the rhyme as if it were a short poem. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z And he rattles off a poem by some white guy named Dylan Thomas that sounds an awful lot like rap. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not today, Mrs. Clarke. In fact, it is a rather melancholy German poem, which we are reading in translation. But you are welcome to stay nevertheless.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But there was nothing lame about this poem, and none of it was about sex. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gay had told me to write a poem to thank everyone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He opened his mouth and a poem came out. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But it needs to be an angry poem. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Reading her secrets and polite small cruelties of her heart, I believe she enjoyed taking the dumb grass by surprise, in her poem. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Can you please tell me which of my son’s poems these people are repeating?’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get home, I collect all my six-word memoirs and write one whole poem. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z This story is told only in a very early poem, one of the earliest of the Homeric Hymns, dating from the eighth or the beginning of the seventh century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Like right now, she just drew these pink flowers in my notebook, the one I used to write all my poems in. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z And before that a myth, a poem of what his father had been, what fathers could be, what place we took in the story of our people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Our day at Hailsham always began with an assembly, which was usually pretty brief—a few announcements, maybe a poem read out by a student. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, he is hateful throughout the Iliad, poem of war though it is. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia strokes her daughter’s hair, murmuring a worn lullaby, a poem she set to music once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So instead, as I sometimes do, I began remembering a poem. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Whether we put up poems or photographs or even paintings is up to us, so long as the work is ours and we can tie it in with our study of the Harlem Renaissance. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her rally poem isn’t exactly Longfellow but it is a running start. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Each year my poems became more and more mature. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Upon reading the letter and the poem, he crowed with pleasure and, forgetting me, hastened to find the king. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The domesticity in this poem, these kitchens, gardens, ponds...is not a metaphor for the ludicrous war in the South Atlantic in this year?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I would steal a glance at him as he read out the words of the poems. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Her address was on the letter in his pocket, next to the poem. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When she confessed, with a poem, that she had not truly fallen in love with him until after the wedding, it shook him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The one who wrote that poem about a blank white page or something. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The rich lady noticed the copy of Tagore’s poems beside my bed. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody knows of your poems? A teacher? A confidant?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Hey, Mason, isn’t it hard for you to read these poems?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z As public artifact, the poem can never duplicate intimate sound. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He read poems by the romantics William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“Where true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Radio Caribe, the government station, is having a recitation contest, but most of the poems are about El Jefe, so Mami turns it off. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z For many people this might sound like a normal poem, but to me it’s an analogy of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Think about it: All these words made up the poems Angel read.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Before I left home today, I slipped a poem and a drawing of Michael Jordan in my father’s easy chair, under the remote. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, there must be ways of establishing priority—Tartaglia’s coded poem is a device to demonstrate that he already has the solution even though he is keeping it secret. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “And how are you? Busy with your poems, I see.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Then she smiles and explains how that line comes from a favorite poem of hers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z But I wonder if maybe you have to read it as a poem, instead of just reading these fragments for quotes and clues. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The words from the poem that Tootie had recited rose up inside of him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “I’m not thinking of writing a symbolic poem about your squadron.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The poem that hadn’t escaped my mind all night. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Diana pressed down a curling corner of a poem. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z That she chose one of her favorite poems to read to us made me feel like she was showing us something no other teacher had before. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybe he decided to write that poem, too. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z That is why there are stirring poems and brave heroes who die for what is right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In its purest form, the symphonic poem style is what orchestral film music grew out of in the 1920s and ’30s, its job to support and describe something outside music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And he seemed to like the poem I read at the last Open Mike Friday. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I shoved the poem in my pocket, grabbed my sax, and went to the front of the room. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I open a book, the words sort themselves into narrow-minded single file on the page; the mirror-image poems erase themselves half-formed in my mind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening I decided to write a poem on being white, fat, old and without children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This moment, this here, this right now is my teacher saying, You're a writer, as she holds the poem I am just beginning. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He sighed, and I knew he was thinking of Hari, so I began to read aloud to Sassur from my favorite poem. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z If the passage was from the twentieth poem in the book, the meeting would be on the twentieth day of the month. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z George says you repeat the words so that the poem sticks. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I feel like the traveler in Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Boy,” I said, “if my poem was the best, people must have sent in some awful poems.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In his third dream there was a big book, a collection of poems. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Ivy couldn’t see it clearly, but she was sure it was June’s glass girl poem, cut up and pasted here and there. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The one good thing about Miss Williams was that she made us learn poems by heart and I liked that. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You found what even I couldn’t find in my own poem. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Even though I hate poetry, a poem I read for English class pops into my head. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A made-up card with a “Turning Twelve” by Nzila poem printed on it that Big Ma would roll her eyes at. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I'm sure she wouldn’t have appreciated Vonetta sprinkling “black” into her poem like pepper, but the crowd loved it, and we went along, following Vonetta’s lead, throwing in the word black as she had. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I'd asked her if the words had an inner meaning, the way some of the poems Bedi Ma'am taught me did. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Last month, Mr. Ward gave our class an assignment to write a poem about what frightens us most, in honor of Halloween. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The title of Mom’s book Count the Ways on Kahlo and Rivera is a line taken from her favorite poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some even wrote parodies of my poem, reading them to me in the hopes of getting under my skin. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I think he's writing about the long poem after modernism or something like that. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She remembered that Emily Dickinson’s poems hardly ever rhymed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The idea behind Liszt’s symphonic poems was to reduce the traditional four-movement symphony as exemplified by Beethoven into one concentrated, shorter piece that would be a musical response to a non-musical artwork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She blinked at him, smiled, and repeated the poem. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The game night will give me the chance to get to know the other kids better and figure out who could’ve written the poem. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Ivy’s mind flashed to June’s poem, to the way June had so clearly not wanted Ivy to see it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I write down poems I like. I’m not some kinda weird rhyming genius like you.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Once Angel’s done, I have to read the new poems we created from all the words. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I remember my dad reading from his poems to Mom and me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I would send my poems out, to literary quarterlies or magazines, and wait for their return. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “But Edgar’s no name for a girl. At least make it Annabelle,” she pleaded, “or Lee, like the other poem.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z An eighties teen movie might not be what I need right now, but I’m also too agitated to read a poem about hope being a bird. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The voice is primary, and singing songs and speaking and creating poems should be mastered before playing an instrument, which is seen as an activity that extends the body. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps my dad was right to brush this poem off. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I wrote out a copy of that poem and made Lázaro swear he’d pass it on to you when the fingerprints started appearing.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z BREN: By poems, you mean, like, rap lyrics? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, I read this poem at the Freedom Writers concert: An Innocent Freedom Writer A young black boy filled with innocence and care, looking for someone, but no one is there. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He had one hand in his pocket, and I knew he was touching his poem. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Yes,” replied Mrs. Little, “and I think we had better start thinking about the poem ‘’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.’ Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I was an almost in third grade too, when my poem wasn’t picked for the wall for Parents’ Night. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z If you’re angry, you don’t have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z That makes me think about writing a poem, one about tears. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She stared down at the full, translated poem: Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Today I would like to recite to you a poem by Sir Walter Scott entitled ‘Lochinvar.’ The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero’s journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Listen, you people” —he always called us you people—“Julia-day- Burgos is so obscure it would be hard to find a single poem of hers. In any language.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I ask to see the poem and then read it to myself. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Even now, Dedd hears her sister, reciting that poem she wrote in jail, her voice raspy with the cold she never got rid of that last year. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to Fern, who was proud of her protest poem disguised as our dinnertime prayer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Liyana loved thinking of first lines for stories or poems or movies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I was writing a letter to myself…hidden in a poem. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “I wanna talk to you about something. You wrote the poem, not me. I want you to have the shot. It’s only fair.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Framed photographs of her parents on the bureau, poems framed on the walls, and her closet— everything in its place, the floor varnished, and her shoes standing diligently side by side. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time I got to Mr. Winston's class, he was wrapping up his usual theatrics and a weeklong lesson, explaining the final stanza of the poem. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “A poem about massive battles and boundless love isn’t pretentious?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The poem “Barren Woman” was written by a woman who committed suicide, and I’m pretty sure of it—her name was Sylvia Plath. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Everyone’s poems in class were so good. Seems like a waste to just write them and no one hears them except us.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It’s actually fun reading Mr. Langston Hughes’s poems. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I even try to compose a quick poem, but the words won’t cooperate. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And there were two lines from the poem that were highlighted in green: Unscrew the locks from the doors! Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “Those are two Japanese poems. They’re not full of a lot of emotional stuff,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I wasn’t José Martí—I didn’t have his mojo—but if I could make Carmen smile like that, then I could totally recite my poem again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I went barreling on as if it was my poem and I was an expert. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z For a moment, I feel a flash of hope when I think about the last line of the poem: “I stop some where waiting for you.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I fold the poem and stuff it in my pocket. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z And then she died, my aunt who listened to my poems. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a week of reading Siegfried Sassoon’s war poems and being deeply touched by them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Together we hung the letter up in my room, next to Daddy’s poem, which we also put in a frame. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He knew an Irish poem once but it was about fairies and had no sign of a highwayman in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, people can choose from any of these. Mrs. Baker has been giving us poems as examples to use when we write our own.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The last lines of the poem said that before becoming a diamond, everything was first coal. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Within hours after the shooting, Pakistani TV channels ran footage of me with prayers and poems. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It didn’t rhyme, but Ivy knew not all poems did. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I wrote the poem on an index card and memorized it while I cleaned the gas company. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Ivanhoe, The Prince and the Pauper, and some poems by Kipling and Tennyson were among the things I read in school the first year in the special class. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It felt just like all those songs and poems had promised it would. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I wrote a poem with her name in the card, which was really hard because there aren’t many good words that rhyme with Maylene. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We each are what we feel and see and hear, as the poem goes on to say. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I read one of her poems in English class last week, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Shove those poems, those lyrics, those stupid dreams in her face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I wanted to be the person who wrote poems that moved the hearts of wicked men and made beautiful women swoon at my feet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Did you know that a poem by José Martí inspired a very famous song called “Guantanamera”? And that a young man composed a version of it that became a worldwide hit? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I didn’t care what Cecile called her new self or how much dust she blew off paths with her poems. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph had no idea what the poem meant, but the words were beautiful and they sat down together to read it again. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z America is not, never has been, and never will be what the songs and poems call it, a land of plenty. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Put the names of shorter works, like poems, stories, and songs, in ordinary type with quotation marks. books: Gone With the Wind magazines: Newsweek n e w s pa p E R s.- Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she had read a poem from Chatterbox with gestures. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that poem...it was...it was about you and Taryn.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now that I could read, he often took out a book of poems by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “But your father, he wrote nice letters, poems, stuff like that.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He didn't sit by me in class, his workshop poems became unaccountably straightforward and affectionate, out and out love poems. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She said she felt like maybe writing again, getting back to her essays and poems. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She listened to every book, every poem I read her. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Most nights Frederick murmurs to himself before falling asleep: bits of poems, the habits of geese, bats he’s heard swooping past the windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The voice said at last, “Since you express no preference, I shall select a poem at random.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z So tonight I say my poem twice, just in case the winds didn’t hear them the first go-round. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Okay, Kitty went and stood right in front of Mack and started reciting her poem real slow. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No one paid much attention to the final speaker, Henry himself, who went to the podium and read, inaudibly and without comment, a short poem by A. E. Housman. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I read the poem I had published over and over. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Abuela knows each poem by heart, and recites them quite dramatically. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, he had carried Robin to another part of the monastery, and showed him where records of everyday living were written and poems and psalteries copied. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I am done writing this darn acrostic poem. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Ms. Saintima would never call on me to read my poem aloud unless I wanted to. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “It’s a kind of poem,” I said, “called a haiku. It’s always three lines.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Mary Elizabeth came to school with a book of poems by a famous poet named e. e. cummings. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I feel like I would be okay, too, if I could just take the words swirling around in my head and smoosh them into a poem in my notebook. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Here is my palindrome poem on the subject: Eros, eyesore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going to tell her that she did a good job on her poem. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The cause of this long-lasting fame was a war told of in one of the world’s greatest poems, the Iliad, and the cause of the war went back to a dispute between three jealous goddesses. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked through some of my mom's home and garden magazines and used your poems as inspiration. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z There’s one poem about a kid named Roland who is walking from one country to another, and he’s scared. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Because he writes poems about being colored and living up North but missing the South and feeling lonely. Miss Fulton likes his poems too.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Would you like a copy of the poem?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Sassur disappeared into his room and took down the book of Tagore’s poems, but each time I looked into the room, I saw that no page had been turned. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I add: eating beans and rice every day, not being able to write poems, and having to live at Smoky Inn forever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z They were relentless, bringing new poems every day for an entire week. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I had thought of that poem many times since the war, and of myself, by default, as “scribe and confessor.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Minerva showed me her poem was written later. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet’s native land, our own native land, Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On page eleven I found a poem titled "Florida Dawn." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Then I said, “If you keep changing your name, how will people know you or your poems?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He touched his top pocket where the poem she sent was enfolded in her letter. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She would have them memorize one line of a poem, and the next day they would have forgotten it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So they're in academic heaven, talking about this professor and that course, this novel and that poem, and all of a sudden I'm afraid that they might turn into good friends after all. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside him on the desk lay an open copy of Walt Whitman’s famous book of poems Leaves of Grass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My few clothes and my book of Tagore’s poems went into a basket. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I hate that idiot poem about the snowy woods, and I hate it when people say the woods symbolize death or beauty or sex or any old thing you want. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I’m not going to write a poem in his honor. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He said he’s going to write me more poems, Esteban said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We decided Cecile’s poem was in a way like “Dry Your Eyes.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have a poem also, Alexander? Well, this is one delightful surprise after another, children! Let’s hear it, then. Beowulf, come here next to me, and let your brother have the stage.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Your inspiration for a music or integrated lesson plan can be a song, an instrument, timbre, vocal sound, poem, story, rhythm, speech pattern, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She hadn’t stopped to consider why Mr. Griswold had chosen a black bird to replace the seagull, but now she realized it must be a nod to this poem. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Lee Lee’s poems are so good, she could probably teach the class,” I tell Sam. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The glass girl from her poem wasn’t actually made of glass. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, "Do you know what a poem is, Esther?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Lurching with shame, I hid my poem with my body. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “He said that the poems happen to be written by the only great poet of the century. He said I should’ve bought a translation or something. Or learned the language, if you please.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But this one was even worse, because it had a rhythm to it, like a poem, or a chant. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I’d never read a book of poems before and wasn’t even sure I knew how to read a book of poems. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Okay, the first week of school Mrs. Henry, our English teacher, said we had to write poems in the style of some famous poet. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hesiod has much to say about the gods, and a second poem, usually ascribed to him, the Theogony, is entirely concerned with mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A poem called “Maggot” about why kids who get picked on get picked on nagged at me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Admittedly, it was the worst poem written in the Spanish language. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps they could tell that whoever wrote it would be a writer someday and that eventually the poem would be worth more than the house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z My stepfather was proud of me; he did ev-erything but laminate the poem. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A place where Chelsea can write the poems she’s passionate about, a place where I can perform roles beyond what is already imagined for girls like me. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The fourth night, she said that she never liked the one poem he’d ever published in his life, in a literary magazine in Utah. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I memorized his poem so I could recite it that day. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s in that box in my closet. I put stuff there that your dad gave me. I forgot about the poem, though, till just now.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z "Point, point, does everything need a point? Why do you write poems?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He had seen the books, but I held the paper sack with his cookies in my arms shielded by the poems. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You made terrible puns, cheated at dice, and criticized the meter of my excellent poems, but you were once a phenomenal healer.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, son. I don’t know anything ’bout Langston Hughes and I sure don’t know anything ’bout any poems. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z We came to our English class yesterday and found our poems and drawings gone from the wall. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried writing a few poems a la Shakespeare, but quickly returned to Browning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z His rich baritone could be heard a mile away reciting poems about the food on the back of his truck: When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z That was fairly interesting, but then I noticed his back, which was almost entirely covered by a long poem in Spanish, tattooed in a flowing script. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother calls me Little Girl, but this is a poem by Fern Gaither, not Little Girl. This is a poem for Crazy Kelvin. It’s called ‘A Pat on the Back for a Good Puppy.’ One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra felt that if she could just be alone for a few seconds to clear her head, maybe she could make sense of the poem. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z By the time I got back to my seat, other kids were shouting out: “Mr. Ward, I got a poem too. Can I bring it in to read?” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "The stones are inspected,” he wrote in one of the few doggerel poems ever published in Science, And Holmes cries, "rejected, They're nothing but Indian chips.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t know how fine Cecile’s poetry was, but I had seen her writing poems in the kitchen and sometimes on the walls or on cereal boxes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So, I stood up, and just before I read this poem, I asked everyone if they knew who wrote it to please tell me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe if she had just hand-copied the rain poem she loves on a piece of nice paper. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z That when he traveled the world and lived far from his mama, he was lonely too and wrote poems about it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She wanted this poem to become our motto in class, and our principle in life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She reads some of the poems we picked, and the sound of the words helps me calm down. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Everyone did a fine job. I value every single story and poem and drawing that was prepared by a Riverside School student, but as you know, I could only choose three to represent us.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He ended the subject by quoting the poem he believed in like a prayer: “Love each other or perish.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If Dicey died, she guessed she wouldn’t mind having this poem on her tombstone, now that she thought about it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don't think she minds reading the poems. Writing them makes her nervous.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She gets through two poems while I’m still typing my first one. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I recite my poem about how me and Sneaky aren’t friends anymore, and the one about summertime. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z She hadn’t stopped to consider why Mr. Griswold had chosen a black bird to replace the seagull, but now she realized it must be a nod to this poem. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But aside from that, don’t you think it’s a good poem? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She went on, “Frankly, I’m on the brink of really quitting. I’m sick of it. No more poems, no more reviews, nothing. What do you think?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the one who took notes and wrote poems about them. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Two goblins stood before the inner doors, which were made of silver and which carried the poem warning of dire retribution to potential thieves. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Call’s total lack of enthusiasm for my poem had had a dampening effect. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if any of us really understood his dad’s poem. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z "The poem was about a princess who lived by the sea or something. Let's see." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then the old man grew even more courageous and said something else and that was a poem, too. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z But his favorite Shel Silverstein poem was “The Little Boy and the Old Man.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Perhaps a romantic poem I wrote ‘in the human style’ will help you understand,” says the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Almost the way Cecile did when she worked out her poems. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When he does, it’s with nostalgia, as if she’s already a thing of the past, or beautifully dead, like someone in a poem. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Are you the glass girl from your poem?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The poems I read are not nonsense poems. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As the water trickles out of the rusty tap, I imagine I'm standing near a wide river, like in a poem my teacher read to us about rivers singing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She still left me even when she let me be with her while she wrote poems. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “And our final contestant, representing our littlest people, is Claudia Odom, who wrote a sweet and funny poem she calls ‘Cornbread and Cows.’ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z —That shows a real depth of understanding, Gerald—of the poem, and of some of the larger ideas that the poem touches on. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We memorize a poem about them: In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses row on row That mark our place. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But after the first line I realized it wasn't a poem. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The Coleridge poem gave me yet a new idea about writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Would you like to hear the last poem I wrote before quitting poetry? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Mam says to Bridey, Did you ever hear that poem that someone must have made up about me and him? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Before you go, tell me that poem again that you like so much,” he said, still holding on to her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z No. Choose a poem that speaks to you. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “I used to write poems,” I tell Angel. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Could anything be more dreadful?—but she was too upset to resume teaching or even to read melancholy German poems in translation. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I got to thinking that poems were like people. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Have you ever wondered why some people make beautiful songs and poems and tales, and some of us do not? Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Even if you don’t know what all the words mean, I hope you can close your eyes and feel the poem pulsing in your blood,” my dad said. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Eventually a few of the poems were published, and then a few of the stories, mostly in small literary magazines that paid in contributors’ copies. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Once, I looked up from my place on the steps and she was sitting at the top, elbows on knees, face cupped in her hands, listening to Papi recite a poem he’d written. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Once, last year, the language arts teacher assigned him a poem about this rough-and-tumble guy who couldn’t let people see the bluebird that lived in his heart. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “It is a kind of poem the Japanese write. It never rhymes, but it always has seventeen syllables.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z How could I ever write a poem if I couldn’t let the words come out through my fingers and feel their shape? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, everyone asked what my last gift was, and I told them it was a poem I read a long time ago. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how to write poetry, but there was a Spanish bookseller with a real genius for rhyme from whom I ordered poems and songs—anything whose raw material was paper and ink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the poem that will end it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And, of course, following the meal came songs, epic poems, and speeches in praise of the princesses and the three gallant adventurers who had rescued them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z So that I don’t just sit there looking uninteresting when she gets back, I pull out my notebook to fiddle with my poem. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just that I thought we could look at some more modern poets this year and think about how they are writing and how we can use those poems as models...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Indeed—and what could be more handmade than a poem?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Apollonius ends his poem with the return of the heroes to Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I lick the obituaries and the sad memorial poems, the sports pages, the market prices of eggs butter and bacon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mal, she learned, was a poet, had published several collections of poems. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A poem and a magic trick performed by two hateful groupies just ain’t worth my time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The most delicately written poem had been done by Lefty when he still had his right hand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The New Yorker sneered at the error, Ogden Nash wrote a poem about it, Walter Cronkite refused to say it on the air, and Strunk and White declared it illiterate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I finished my poem, and it was beautiful! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t really have a plan, not yet. There’s not much of a future in making puzzlers and poems, I expect.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The pullover cost me four sets of wireless code—the full lot of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The poem printed in the book resting inside a fruit bowl on top of her coffee table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Every time she says that, I nod and remember the words from one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers I That perches in the soul.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z It was strange to see them written down like a poem, each name on its own line, and each word speaking an immensity. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He spent the time writing poems and letters, which could never be posted, or telling his companions about the princess, whose nickname in her family aide was Piggy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut short my report about his case so I could hear his poem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But then I decided that, addiction to robbery aside, he seemed like a together enough person to keep straight the source of a poem he had inscribed on his own back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And I read that book of poems by a poet named William Carlos Williams. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Reading the poem certainly made me feel less worried and confused. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Narrated from Mollie Burkhart’s point of view, the poem is about the murder of Anna Brown: Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z ‘Everyone loved them and enjoyed them. But when the reign of Tiberius ended, his poems were forgotten. The words you’re hearing now are those of your son in the military.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The poem was about a newly born horse who doesn’t know anything but feels everything. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z "Show us how happy it makes you to write a poem." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He minimized the poem on the screen and clicked a new website. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z First of all, it was in color, and second, it had the poem that I gave Patrick in it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Students are creating films, plays, and poems and are engaging with one another online to share their anger and also their hopes and ideas for a better tomorrow. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The next week—maybe—she returned with a poem written on a cream-colored sheet of paper. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I thought you wrote that poem after I was born, about finding love in quiet places.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I said, “Well, I love Rosaleen, and I love writing stories and poems—just give me something to write and I will love it.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The poems hadn’t been as boring as I thought they would, but today I was about to explode. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “How many people here have poems they’d like to read?” he asked. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I think that is precisely what Whitman would have wanted. For you to see ‘Song of Myself’ not just as a poem but as a way into understanding another. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We get on our Chromebooks and start typing the poems, and Angel’s way faster than me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z First he tore the pages from the book of poems and crumpled each poem into a ball or a paper twist, which he pushed into the sticks of the shack's wall at ground level. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z And not just poems of sorrow or angst. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I remember the day he smiled at me and said, "Do you know what a poem is, Esther?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z This poem was just the beginning, of course. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Dante finished reading a poem, then went looking for another. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He’d call me up to the front of the class and ask me to recite a poem we had read only once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, it was just a list of words that he wanted to turn into a poem. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He would drag the rest of that poem out of Mr. Charrington’s memory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dad stopped his rhyming, not because Momma told him to, but because I bet he ran out of stupid poems. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a poem by somebody who really thinks about things, and that somebody turned out to be Tyrone. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Voltaire composed a poem on the disaster that had considerable cultural impact, opening a floodgate of intellectual challenge and debate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I take that, and they even have the book Miss Fulton read, with poems by Countee Cullen and all the other colored poets. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “It’s a Persian love poem. ‘This flame of love set my heart on fire. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The poem is called “Still I Rise,” and even though Ms. Jacobs is staring at me like she read the poem just for me, I don’t shrink low in my seat. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Aside from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana was the other ancient epic poem that lots of Indians knew. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He read the poem to the class, adding his own comments, and to several other classes as well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Tanu loved to hear the poems, and after a bit even the widows who had disapproved of them began to listen. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “See you later, alligator,” she said, which left me half-frozen long enough to notice that she had left her book of poems on the mailbox. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A rough, jagged poem, like the steps on this stoop, like the sidewalk in front of this building. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Written poems exist on a page, at first glance, as a mere collection of words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The mother used to go to all the poetry readings her daughter gave in town and sit in the front row applauding each poem and giving standing ovations. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “With that connector cord, you can also save longer things you want to write—like stories or poems—on the computer!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Why did a silly poem affect me so much? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The poem was over, but the ambulance was still driving away from us, so I kept writing it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Ada who swears to wear black and scratch out dreadful poems. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the class was given the assignment to write a poem, she did read mine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When he glanced at her magazine, she wished she had brought out the Esiaba Irobi book of poems that she planned to read on the train back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "It's really beautiful. And the poem you wrote the baby made me cry." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z What was more, her poems had appeared in at least twenty small literary magazines, two “slicks,” six college journals, and the Sunday supplements of countless newspapers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ll ask students from her school to come and share their poems too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The sonnet form allowed me to make my poems look and feel like real poetry without being as distant as some of the other British poetry I had read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Jay Cee suggested a book of poems, but the photographer said no, that was too obvious. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I still didn’t get to read aloud in class, but when we had a class assignment to write a poem, she would read mine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I could’ve used a few extra minutes to work on my own poem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed the hasty poem was lacking in music and halting in meter. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She smiled with both sides when he said, “Here’s a college essay idea: Describe the shorts that changed your life in the form of a poem.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Do you want to hear a poem, Beowulf? You are in luck; I was planning to read more poetry today. After lunch, I thought we might have a go at ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus.’” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z A man with a shirt frayed at the cuffs, without a jacket and wearing broken shoes, marched along reciting the Poet’s most revolutionary poems, his grief streaming down his face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Am I sure that the poem wasn’t here last time? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z At the last minute, Flora’s mother had picked up the piece of paper with his poem on it and thrown it into the sack along with him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “I was go’n copy all my poems and plays in it. But as you know I never have a minute to call my own now.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I brought the book of poems Dante had brought over, the book of poems by William Carlos Williams—and Mom, she brought a novel she was reading, Bless Me, Ultima. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In the same poem, she told him that she was “wishing and waiting and counting the months till you come back to me.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t understand the reading and the math, but everybody laughed at my poem,” she said first thing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When it was published in the New Yorker, my mom and I had Mrs. Brown make him one of those picture cakes, with the cover of the issue his poem was printed in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora couldn’t make much out of his poems: a visitation of a magnificent presence, a seeker awaiting a message. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The description of Danaë in the wooden chest was the most famous passage of a famous poem by Simonides of Ceos, a great lyric poet who lived in the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But most of all take two poems and call me in the morning. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My baap went to hear him give a reading of his poems. The book has been handed down from son to son, but now...” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I would have finished the poem if I hadn’t heard Ty call room check. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Lorca explained that the cante jondo was a primitive flamenco from his native Andalusia, a region enriched by Moorish invaders, and that the songs had inspired his own gypsy ballad poems. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Laney’s drawing and Oliver’s poem were shoved under the door, Hyacinth’s wreath was taped up under the peephole, and Jessie settled her tray on the floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He was so enthralled, he wanted to write a poem about it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You start with a line from a song or a poem. Then you just say it over until you feel yourself calming down. I kept myself sane that way.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To stop myself from dozing, I focus on the poem. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Hi, I’m Georgia, and that poem was really good! Girls in the hood. I like that!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Now that we were no longer stringing beads, I entertained Tanu after supper by reading Tagore’s poems aloud, although the older widows said I would have done better to read the sacred verses. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z This afternoon, I miss Tiago’s dreams of the sea and Esteban’s poems and all the stories we finally trusted each other enough to tell. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z You put them on your refrigerator, and then you write poems while you make a sandwich. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Like the old man in the poem, he was dedicated to someone too, dedicated to helping her find out what the really important things for her were. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The next day everyone was assigned a poem to recite. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z George says, that way, you always have the poem in your heart. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wondered at the poem August had made her learn, whether it had stuck with her after she got married. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Miss K said some members of the class had stories and poems about mice they wanted to share with their guests. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z I don't explain how much I like this poem, which is, I think, about aging, not death. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The library had plenty of editions of Anne Frank’s diary, but not one included a poem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Into her head came lines from an old poem: Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, he asked us to write down a response to a little poem he passed around. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Something funny, shocking, or hurtful might happen and I’d think, This is going to make for one fascinating poem. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “The Mahabharata is one of two ancient poems. It was written in Sanskrit, an ancient Indic language that is no longer spoken.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z While Mr. Simmons goes on and on about integers, I work on a poem in my journal. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She added that she found the poem sentimental. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you read that poem again?” my mom asked as she clinked her glass to get everyone’s attention. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Liszt spearheaded a shift from orchestral to illustrative music, using this 1850 painting of Attila the Hun in battle as the basis for his symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Next in order come the Homeric Hymns, poems written to honor various gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She would borrow freely from the poems she’d heard, stringing words together like laundry on a line, connecting ideas and descriptions she couldn’t have planned. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t please everyone. As my poet in chief, you could comfort the loser with a good poem.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z One of you even read that poem I wrote. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They said it was the poems that brought them together. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt new to herself—not an obscene thing that made ghosts recoil, but a poem. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Charlise says while balancing my small laptop in her wide hand as she reads my poem. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We had read sonnets before, but Mrs. Finley, reading Browning’s poems, gave them new meaning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I produced poems, short stories, articles, even ideas for advertising campaigns. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z All that was missing was Cecile to see and hear us recite her poem. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For one moment, he watched, satisfied, as the glider tugged at the string in his hand and the poem fluttered. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “That you solve by writing them a poem?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But a poem can’t do its work if you only read snippets of it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z His favorite poems were those that described the countryside, poems about being out early when the morning light is thin and pale, and about hearing the birds’ songs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z After we read the poem, Ms. G broke it down to its simplest form, she wanted no part to be misunderstood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “What are you trying to do with your poems?” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “My mother calls me Little Girl, but this is a poem by Fern Gaither, not Little Girl. This is a poem for Crazy Kelvin. It’s called ‘A Pat on the Back for a Good Puppy.’ One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I volunteered to read a poem in front of the class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I still like poems better, but I’m glad I tried something new. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We sat in his study on stuffed brown leather chairs, surrounded by stacks of dusty, incomprehensible books with huge formulas inset artistically on the page like poems. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was a good poem for reciting out loud. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She called on Brad, who slouched to the front of the room, announced that he wasn’t much good at poems, and that his poem was sort of dumb. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z One poem in particular, written before the storm, intrigued Ivy so much that she read it twice. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My copies of his poems went back to him with long, complimentary comments. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Kendra was sitting on her bed, reading poems by Shel Silverstein, when the room suddenly brightened. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “My poem is called a haiku,” she announced. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “It just is—like a poem. I wanted to see you.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z An hour of monologue, a poem, a comment, and then without even acknowledging the fact that Montag was a fireman, Faber with a certain trembling, wrote his address on a slip of paper. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a poem that Michael made a copy of for me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “What gets me about that poem ‘The Second Coming’...you know how it talks about the widening spiral?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Jam sighed and freed her hands from her mother’s so she could say the words, lifted from an old Gwendolyn Brooks poem, words the angels had used when they gave Lucille back to itself. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And maybe there would be a poem about a horsehair sofa. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I started reading the poem more closely, figured out you weren’t running probably, just holed up, planning. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “This one’s funny,” Angel says when she types up the poem “Snowball” by Shel Silverstein. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Everyone had her favorite; the older widows asked for the poems about the sadness of life and the younger ones for the poems about love. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z We are to get this poem by heart, twenty lines a night to be recited every morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z While she smoked, she murmured my poem “Rocks” from May's magazine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Even though I knew the highlighted parts were probably the only important parts, I wanted to know whether it was a suicide-note kind of poem. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I watch her read my poem, and then the invitation that Angel created. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I have not gone to it, however, for my story, but to the Elder Edda, where the love and death of Sigurd and Brynhild and Gudrun are the subject of a number of the poems. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day, Mr. Kennel read a poem before he rang the bell. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The story was a part of the great Persian poet Ferdowsi’s epic poem Shahnameh, which roughly translates to The Book of Kings. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z In fact, I know I’ve read a poem called “Barren Woman.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z On more than one occasion, she would start to read a poem by Poe or Longfellow, only to hear him finish it for her, from memory. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z My chance of winning was so small there was no point in arguing over who wrote the better poem. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He majors in English and writes small, sad poems. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It seemed it came from a big long poem that started out about how April was the “crudest month.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with the shoebox containing the picture of her parents, the book of poems, and the sketchbook. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Would I like him to say it because he never learned how to read and he had to carry the poem in his head? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I had a similar feeling when I read an Emily Dickinson poem. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There was Pickett, writing too, sitting on a camp stool as if composing a poem. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did you print my poem, the poem that you yourself called “scary” in theLost-N-Found?Why did you let other people read it? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I learned by heart poems written halfway around the world. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, go on and read me a poem.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She started copying a poem called "Caged Bird" into her notebook. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And you had to write the poem to a particular person. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From the looks of things, Ambrose had been trying to compose a poem. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I loved him for all sorts of reasons: He cooked without recipes; he wrote nonsense poems for his nieces; his large, warm family had accepted me as one of their own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Note that the term phrase refers to the music, while line refers to the lyrics or poem. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Done. I will only write poems about the sun from now on,” I declare. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The lead-up to her arrival began weeks before, with the guardians sifting through all our work—our paintings, sketches, pottery, all our essays and poems. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We all thought Miss Fifth Avenue was self-confidence with a capital S, but her poem was all about wishing she could make herself over. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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