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Allen Ginsberg's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Wales Visitation
    White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow
              Trees moving in rivers of wind
    109 lines
  • To Aunt Rose
    Aunt Rose—now—might I see you
    with your thin face and buck tooth smile and pain
    63 lines
  • Paterson
    What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money?
    How much can I make by cutting my hair? If I put new heels on my shoes
    28 lines
  • Mugging (I)

    Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth street’s dusk—
    41 lines
  • Ballad Of The Skeletons
    Said the Presidential Skeleton
    I won't sign the bill
    165 lines
  • My Sad Self
    To Frank O’Hara
    76 lines
  • Cezanne's Ports
    In the foreground we see time and life
    swept in a race
    14 lines
  • Feb 29, 1958
    Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliot
    welcoming me to the land of dream
    41 lines
  • Psalm IV
    Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God:
    It was no dream, I lay broad waking on a fabulous couch in Harlem
    20 lines
  • Crossing Nation
    Under silver wing
    San Francisco's towers sprouting
    37 lines, 1 comment
  • Hospital Window
    At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke
    ribbons past Chrysler Building's silver fins
    38 lines
  • On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government
    Is that the only way we can become like Indians, like Rhinoceri,
    like Quartz Crystals, like organic farmers, like what we imagine
    23 lines
  • Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad
    I came home and found a lion in my room...
    [First draft of \
    18 lines
  • Nagasaki Days
    I -- A Pleasant Afternoon
    for Michael Brownstein and Dick Gallup
    76 lines
  • Five A.M.
    Elan that lifts me above the clouds
    into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
    21 lines
  • Transcription Of Organ Music
    The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the
          kitchen crooked to take a place in the light,
    80 lines
  • War Profit Litany
    To Ezra Pound
    These are the names of the companies that have made
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Plutonian Ode
    I
    What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there
    161 lines
  • Father Death Blues
    Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
    Hey poor man, you're all alone
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Kraj Majales (King Of May)
    And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and
    lying policemen
    66 lines
  • In Back Of The Real
    railroad yard in San Jose
        I wandered desolate
    25 lines
  • Homework
    Homage to Kenneth Koch
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Death & Fame
    When I die
    I don't care what happens to my body
    96 lines
  • Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters
    Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
    out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
    7 lines
  • The Lion For Real
    I came home and found a lion in my living room
    Rushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion!
    61 lines, 2 comments
  • An Asphodel
    O dear sweet rosy
    unattainable desire
    20 lines
  • 136 Syllables At Rocky Mountain Dharma Center
    Tail turned to red sunset on a juniper crown a lone magpie cawks.
    Mad at Oryoki in the shrine-room — Thistles blossomed late a
    13 lines, 3 comments
  • Haiku (Never Published)
    Drinking my tea
    Without sugar-
    85 lines
  • Cosmopolitan Greetings
    Stand up against governments, against God.
    Stay irresponsible.
    38 lines
  • An Eastern Ballad
    I speak of love that comes to mind:
    The moon is faithful, although blind;
    8 lines, 1 comment
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