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Frank O'Hara's Poetry, by title

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  • 1951
    Alone at night
    in the wet city
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • A City Winter
    1
    I understand the boredom of the clerks
    75 lines
  • A Quiet Poem
    When music is far enough away
    the eyelid does not often move
    14 lines, 6 comments
  • A Raspberry Sweater
    to George Montgomery
    It is next to my flesh,
    13 lines
  • A Step Away From Them
    It's my lunch hour, so I go
    for a walk among the hum-colored
    49 lines
  • A True Account Of Talking To The Sun At Fire Island
    The Sun woke me this morning loud
    and clear, saying "Hey! I've been
    91 lines, 2 comments
  • An Abortion
    Do not bathe her in blood,
    the little one whose sex is
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Ann Arbor Variations
    1
    Wet heat drifts through the afternoon
    89 lines, 3 comments
  • As Planned
    After the first glass of vodka
    you can accept just about anything
    14 lines, 6 comments
  • At Joan's
    It is almost three
    I sit at the marble top
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • At Night Chinamen Jump
    At night Chinamen jump
    on Asia with a thump
    20 lines
  • Autobiographia Literaria
    When I was a child
    I played by myself in a
    17 lines, 3 comments
  • Ave Maria
    Mothers of America
                 let your kids go to the movies
    55 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
  • Chez Jane
    The white chocolate jar full of petals
    swills odds and ends around in a dizzying eye
    21 lines
  • Chinamen Jump
    At night Chinamen jump
    on Asia with a thump
    20 lines
  • Digression On Number 1, 1948
    I am ill today but I am not
    too ill.  I am not ill at all.
    22 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jane Awake
    The opals hiding your lids
     as you sleep, as you ride ponies
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • 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
  • Lines For The Fortune Cookies
    I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.
    Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you--even bigger.
    29 lines, 4 comments
  • Meditations In An Emergency
    Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious
    as if I were French?
    60 lines
  • Melancholy Breakfast
    Melancholy breakfast
    blue overhead blue underneath
    9 lines
  • Morning
    I've got to tell you
    how I love you always
    47 lines, 5 comments
  • Music
    If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian
    pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe,
    21 lines
  • My Heart
    I'm not going to cry all the time
    nor shall I laugh all the time,
    15 lines
  • 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
  • Poem (Hate Is Only One Of Many Responses)
    Hate is only one of many responses
    true, hurt and hate go hand in hand
    20 lines, 5 comments
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