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The term "Pain Suffering" has been searched for 40 times on the American Poems site since April 6th, 2005.
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1. Animals Are Passing From Our Lives - written by Philip Levine
Read 1937 times on American Poems.
It's wonderful how I jog
on four honed-down ivory toes
my massive buttocks slipping
like oiled parts with each light step.
I'm to market. I can smell
the sour, grooved block, I can smell
the blade that opens the hole
and the pudgy white... (Read full poem)
2. The Heart asks Pleasure -- first -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4146 times on American Poems.
The Heart asks Pleasure -- first --
And then -- Excuse from Pain --
And then -- those little Anodyness
That deaden suffering --
And then -- to go to sleep --
And then -- if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
The privilege to die --(Read full poem)
3. Conversion - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 374 times on American Poems.
When this world's pleasures for my soul sufficed,
Ere my heart's plummet sounded depths of pain,
I call on Reason to control my brain,
And scoffed at that old story of Christ.
But when o'er burning wastes my feet had trod,
And all my... (Read full poem)
4. Through the strait pass of suffering -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2056 times on American Poems.
Through the strait pass of suffering --
The Martyrs -- even -- trod.
Their feet -- upon Temptations --
Their faces -- upon God --
A stately -- shriven -- Company --
Convulsion -- playing round --
Harmless -- as streaks of Meteor --
Upon a Planet's... (Read full poem)
5. Despair's advantage is achieved - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1358 times on American Poems.
Despair's advantage is achieved
By suffering -- Despair --
To be assisted of Reverse
One must Reverse have bore --
The Worthiness of Suffering like
The Worthiness of Death
Is ascertained by tasting --
As can no other Mouth
Of Savors -- make us... (Read full poem)
6. Small Comfort - written by Katha Pollitt
Read 863 times on American Poems.
Coffee and cigarettes in a clean cafe,
forsythia lit like a damp match against
a thundery sky drunk on its own ozone,
the laundry cool and crisp and folded away
again in the lavender closet-too late to find
comfort enough in such small daily... (Read full poem)
7. At Seventy-Five: Rereading An Old Book - written by Hayden Carruth
Read 946 times on American Poems.
My prayers have been answered, if they were prayers. I live.
I'm alive, and even in rather good health, I believe.
If I'd quit smoking I might live to be a hundred.
Truly this is astonishing, after the poverty and pain,
The suffering. Who... (Read full poem)
8. Pain has but one Acquaintance - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1991 times on American Poems.
Pain has but one Acquaintance
And that is Death --
Each one unto the other
Society enough.
Pain is the Junior Party
By just a Second's right --
Death tenderly assists Him
And then absconds from Sight.(Read full poem)
9. Pain -- has an Element of Blank -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6945 times on American Poems.
Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
It cannot recollect
When it begun -- or if there were
A time when it was not --
It has no Future -- but itself --
Its Infinite contain
Its Past -- enlightened to perceive
New Periods -- of Pain.(Read full poem)
10. Pain -- expands the Time -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1976 times on American Poems.
Pain -- expands the Time --
Ages coil within
The minute Circumference
Of a single Brain --
Pain contracts -- the Time --
Occupied with Shot
Gamuts of Eternities
Are as they were not --(Read full poem)
11. Father Death Blues (Don't Grow Old, Part V) - written by Allen Ginsberg
Published in 1976.
Read 8162 times on American Poems.
Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going
Father Death, Don't cry any more
Mama's there, underneath the floor
Brother Death, please mind the store
Old Aunty Death Don't hide your... (Read full poem)
12. As One does Sickness over - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1507 times on American Poems.
As One does Sickness over
In convalescent Mind,
His scrutiny of Chances
By blessed Health obscured --
As One rewalks a Precipice
And whittles at the Twig
That held Him from Perdition
Sown sidewise in the Crag
A Custom of the Soul
Far after... (Read full poem)
13. The hallowing of Pain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1900 times on American Poems.
The hallowing of Pain
Like hallowing of Heaven,
Obtains at a corporeal cost --
The Summit is not given
To Him who strives severe
At middle of the Hill --
But He who has achieved the Top --
All -- is the price of All --(Read full poem)
14. They say that "Time assuages" -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2033 times on American Poems.
They say that "Time assuages" --
Time never did assuage --
An actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age --
Time is a Test of Trouble --
But not a Remedy --
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no Malady --(Read full poem)
15. There is a pain -- so utter -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2973 times on American Poems.
There is a pain -- so utter --
It swallows substance up --
Then covers the Abyss with Trance --
So Memory can step
Around -- across -- upon it --
As one within a Swoon --
Goes safely -- where an open eye --
Would drop Him -- Bone by Bone.(Read full poem)
16. It might be lonelier - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3310 times on American Poems.
It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness --
I'm so accustomed to my Fate --
Perhaps the Other -- Peace --
Would interrupt the Dark --
And crowd the little Room --
Too scant -- by Cubits -- to contain
The Sacrament -- of Him --
I am not used to... (Read full poem)
17. Early Darkness - written by Louise Gluck
From The Wild Iris.
Published in 1993.
Read 1714 times on American Poems.
How can you say
earth should give me joy? Each thing
born is my burden; I cannot succeed
with all of you.
And you would like to dictate to me,
you would like to tell me
who among you is most valuable,
who most resembles me.
And you hold... (Read full poem)
18. Are Friends Delight or Pain? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4621 times on American Poems.
Are Friends Delight or Pain?
Could Bounty but remain
Riches were good --
But if they only stay
Ampler to fly away
Riches are sad.(Read full poem)
19. Sorry - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1642 times on American Poems.
There is much in life that makes me sorry as I journey
down life’s way.
And I seem to see more pathos in poor human
Lives each day.
I’m sorry for the strong brave men, who shield
the weak from harm,
But who, in their own troubled hours find... (Read full poem)
20. If pain for peace prepares - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4570 times on American Poems.
If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await!
If springs from winter rise,
Can the Anemones
Be reckoned up?
If night stands fast -- then noon
To gird us for the sun,
What gaze!
When from a thousand skies
On our developed... (Read full poem)
21. Footnote To Howl - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Howl and Other Poems.
Published in 1956.
Read 6243 times on American Poems.
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy!... (Read full poem)
22. Sonnet 08 - written by Alan Seeger
Read 9226 times on American Poems.
Oh, love of woman, you are known to be
A passion sent to plague the hearts of men;
For every one you bring felicity
Bringing rebuffs and wretchedness to ten.
I have been oft where human life sold cheap
And seen men's brains spilled out... (Read full poem)
23. There is a Languor of the Life - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1481 times on American Poems.
There is a Languor of the Life
More imminent than Pain --
'Tis Pain's Successor -- When the Soul
Has suffered all it can --
A Drowsiness -- diffuses --
A Dimness like a Fog
Envelops Consciousness --
As Mists -- obliterate a Crag.
The Surgeon --... (Read full poem)
24. The Room - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 3670 times on American Poems.
Through that window—all else being extinct
Except itself and me—I saw the struggle
Of darkness against darkness. Within the room
It turned and turned, dived downward. Then I saw
How order might—if chaos wished—become:
And saw... (Read full poem)
25. Alone - written by Maya Angelou
Read 27439 times on American Poems.
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all... (Read full poem)
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