Frank O'Hara's Poetry, by popularity

• Rhapsody

  515 Madison Avenue
  door to heaven? portal

  50 lines
• Poem [“The eager note on my door said, ‘Call me,’”]

  The eager note on my door said “Call me,
  call when you get in!” so I quickly threw

  18 lines
• Les Luths

  Ah nuts! It’s boring reading French newspapers
  in New York as if I were a Colonial waiting for my gin

  24 lines
• Chez Jane

  The white chocolate jar full of petals
  swills odds and ends around in a dizzying eye

  21 lines
• Having A Coke With You

  is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
  or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Grac

  26 lines
• Chinamen Jump

  At night Chinamen jump
  on Asia with a thump

  20 lines
• To My Dead Father

  Don't call to me father.
  wherever you are I'm

  25 lines
• Windows

  This space so clear and blue
  does not care what we put

  22 lines
• Homosexuality

  So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping
  our mouths shut? as if we'd been pierced by a glance!

  22 lines
• Steps

  How funny you are today New York
  like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime

  45 lines
• For Grace, After A Party

  You do not always know what I am feeling.
  Last night in the warm spring air while I was

  19 lines
• Poem [I don't know as I get what D.H. Lawrence...]

    I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence
            is driving at

  37 lines
• At Night Chinamen Jump

  At night Chinamen jump
  on Asia with a thump

  20 lines
• Music

  If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian
  pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe,

  21 lines
• At Joan's

  It is almost three
  I sit at the marble top

  17 lines, 1 comment
• On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing The Delaware At The Museum Of Modern Art

  Now that our hero has come back to us
  in his white pants and we know his nose

  28 lines
• To John Ashbery

  I can’t believe there’s not
  another world where we will sit

  14 lines
• A Raspberry Sweater

  to George Montgomery
  It is next to my flesh,

  13 lines
• Digression On Number 1, 1948

  I am ill today but I am not
  too ill.  I am not ill at all.

  22 lines
• Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)

  Lana Turner has collapsed!
  I was trotting along and suddenly

  17 lines
• Call Me

  The eager note on my door said "Call me,"
  call when you get in!" so I quickly threw

  16 lines, 1 comment
• Melancholy Breakfast

  Melancholy breakfast
  blue overhead blue underneath

  9 lines
• A Step Away From Them

  It's my lunch hour, so I go
  for a walk among the hum-colored

  49 lines
• My Heart

  I'm not going to cry all the time
  nor shall I laugh all the time,

  15 lines
• The Day Lady Died

  It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
  three days after Bastille day, yes

  29 lines
• Poem [Let's take a walk,]

  Let's take a walk, you
  and I in spite of the

  23 lines
• Why I Am Not A Painter

  I am not a painter, I am a poet.
  Why? I think I would rather be

  29 lines, 1 comment
• Ave Maria

  Mothers of America
               let your kids go to the movies

  55 lines
• Jane Awake

  The opals hiding your lids
   as you sleep, as you ride ponies

  36 lines, 1 comment
• V.R. Lang

  You are so serious, as if
  a glacier spoke in your ear

  20 lines

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