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The term "Painful experience" has been searched for 50 times on the American Poems site since November 19th, 2004.
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1. None can experience sting - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1380 times on American Poems.
None can experience sting
Who Bounty -- have not known --
The fact of Famine -- could not be
Except for Fact of Corn --
Want -- is a meagre Art
Acquired by Reverse --
The Poverty that was not Wealth --
Cannot be Indigence.(Read full poem)
2. Experience is the Angled Road - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2121 times on American Poems.
Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead
Quite Opposite -- How Complicate
The Discipline of Man --
Compelling Him to Choose Himself
His Preappointed Pain --(Read full poem)
3. Insomniac - written by Maya Angelou
Read 13124 times on American Poems.
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful. (Read full poem)
4. Misgivings - written by William Matthews
From After All.
Published in 1998.
Read 818 times on American Poems.
"Perhaps you'll tire of me," muses
my love, although she's like a great city
to me, or a park that finds new
ways to wear each flounce of light
and investiture of weather.
Soil doesn't tire of rain, I think,
but I know what she fears: plans... (Read full poem)
5. Experience - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3728 times on American Poems.
Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.(Read full poem)
6. Learning the Trees - written by Howard Nemerov
Read 1045 times on American Poems.
Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
The language of the trees. That's done indoors,
Out of a book, which now you think of it
Is one of the transformations of a tree.
The words themselves are a delight to learn,
You might be in... (Read full poem)
7. A Moth the hue of this - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1514 times on American Poems.
A Moth the hue of this
Haunts Candles in Brazil.
Nature's Experience would make
Our Reddest Second pale.
Nature is fond, I sometimes think,
Of Trinkets, as a Girl.(Read full poem)
8. Gin - written by Philip Levine
Read 1219 times on American Poems.
The first time I drank gin
I thought it must be hair tonic.
My brother swiped the bottle
from a guy whose father owned
a drug store that sold booze
in those ancient, honorable days
when we acknowledged the stuff
was a drug. Three of us passed
the... (Read full poem)
9. To pile like Thunder to its close - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1519 times on American Poems.
To pile like Thunder to its close
Then crumble grand away
While Everything created hid
This -- would be Poetry --
Or Love -- the two coeval come --
We both and neither prove --
Experience either and consume --
For None see God and live --(Read full poem)
10. The Artist's Duty - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 716 times on American Poems.
So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame
To extend all boundaries
To fog them in right over the plate
To kill only what is ridiculous
To establish problem
To ignore solutions
To listen to no one
To omit nothing
To... (Read full poem)
11. I stepped from Plank to Plank - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2948 times on American Poems.
I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way
The Stars about my Head I felt
About my Feet the Sea.
I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch --
This gave me that precarious Gait
Some call Experience.(Read full poem)
12. His Feet are shod with Gauze -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1385 times on American Poems.
His Feet are shod with Gauze --
His Helmet, is of Gold,
His Breast, a Single Onyx
With Chrysophrase, inlaid.
His Labor is a Chant --
His Idleness -- a Tune --
Oh, for a Bee's experience
Of Clovers, and of Noon!(Read full poem)
13. This Consciousness that is aware - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2233 times on American Poems.
This Consciousness that is aware
Of Neighbors and the Sun
Will be the one aware of Death
And that itself alone
Is traversing the interval
Experience between
And most profound experiment
Appointed unto Men --
How adequate unto itself
Its properties... (Read full poem)
14. Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1664 times on American Poems.
AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!
Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!
(For what is my life, or any man’s life, but a conflict with foes—the old, the
incessant
war?)
You degradations—you tussle with passions... (Read full poem)
15. The Snow that never drifts -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2448 times on American Poems.
The Snow that never drifts --
The transient, fragrant snow
That comes a single time a Year
Is softly driving now --
So thorough in the Tree
At night beneath the star
That it was February's Foot
Experience would swear --
Like Winter as a Face
We... (Read full poem)
16. The Visitation - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 1395 times on American Poems.
(For Louise Imogen Guiney)
There is a wall of flesh before the eyes
Of John, who yet perceives and hails his King.
It is Our Lady's painful bliss to bring
Before mankind the Glory of the skies.
Her cousin feels her womb's sweet burden... (Read full poem)
17. The Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939) - written by Robinson Jeffers
Published in 1941.
Read 1846 times on American Poems.
This morning Hitler spoke in Danzig, we hear his voice.
A man of genius: that is, of amazing
Ability, courage, devotion, cored on a sick child's soul,
Heard clearly through the dog wrath, a sick child
Wailing in Danzig; invoking destruction and... (Read full poem)
18. Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1408 times on American Poems.
Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated --
Blameless of a Name --
Efflorescence of a Sunset --
Reproduced -- the same --
Seed, had I, my Purple Sowing
Should endow the Day --
Not a Topic of a Twilight --
Show itself away --
Who for tilling -- to the... (Read full poem)
19. The List of Famous Hats - written by James Tate
From Reckoner.
Published in 1986.
Read 7634 times on American Poems.
Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous
hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for
show. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all hon-
esty wasn't much different than the one any jerk... (Read full poem)
20. Saints - written by Louise Gluck
From Ararat.
Published in 1990.
Read 2623 times on American Poems.
In our family, there were two saints,
my aunt and my grandmother.
But their lives were different.
My grandmother's was tranquil, even at the end.
She was like a person walking in calm water;
for some reason
the sea couldn't bring itself to... (Read full poem)
21. With No Experience In Such Matters - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1159 times on American Poems.
To hold a damaged sparrow
under water until you feel it die
is to know a small something
about the mind; how, for example,
it blames the cat for the original crime,
how it wants praise for its better side.
And yet it's as human
as pulling the plug... (Read full poem)
22. Poem Written At Morning - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 10315 times on American Poems.
A sunny day's complete Poussiniana
Divide it from itself. It is this or that
And it is not.
By metaphor you paint
A thing. Thus, the pineapple was a leather fruit,
A fruit for pewter, thorned and palmed and blue,
To be served by men of ice.
The... (Read full poem)
23. Diagnosis - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 1041 times on American Poems.
for David Lehman
I woke up this morning feeling
incredibly Gorky. So I made an appointment
to see my Doctorow. He said my Hemingways
looked a little swollen and sent me to
get an M.R. James and a complete Shakespeare.
By that time, I began... (Read full poem)
24. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 16812 times on American Poems.
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave:
the experience... (Read full poem)
25. September 1961 - written by Denise Levertov
Read 766 times on American Poems.
This is the year the old ones,
the old great ones
leave us alone on the road.
The road leads to the sea.
We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence,
we see it moving away... (Read full poem)
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