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The term "pain%2C hunger and prison" has been searched for 10 times on the American Poems site since November 8th, 2004.
Search Results: 4 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. At a Window - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 3874 times on American Poems.
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A... (Read full poem)
2. How soft this Prison is - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1630 times on American Poems.
How soft this Prison is
How sweet these sullen bars
No Despot but the King of Down
Invented this repose
Of Fate if this is All
Has he no added Realm
A Dungeon but a Kinsman is
Incarceration -- Home.(Read full poem)
3. Harvest Song - written by Jean Toomer
Read 1923 times on American Poems.
I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled.
But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
And I hunger.
I crack a grain between my teeth. I do not taste it.
I have been in the fields all day. My throat is... (Read full poem)
4. Street Window - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1584 times on American Poems.
THE PAWN-SHOP man knows hunger,
And how far hunger has eaten the heart
Of one who comes with an old keepsake.
Here are wedding rings and baby bracelets,
Scarf pins and shoe buckles, jeweled garters,
Old-fashioned knives with inlaid handles,
Watches... (Read full poem)
5. Singer in the Prison, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3158 times on American Poems.
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O sight of shame, and pain, and dole!
O fearful thought—a convict Soul!
RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison,
Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above,
Pouring in floods of melody, in tones so pensive, sweet... (Read full poem)
6. Life's Harmonies - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 416 times on American Poems.
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow,
Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
Through... (Read full poem)
7. my love is building a building... (XII) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 16145 times on American Poems.
my love is building a building
around you, a frail slippery
house, a strong fragile house
(beginning at the singular beginning
of your smile)a skilful uncouth
prison, a precise clumsy
prison(building thatandthis into Thus,
Around the reckless magic... (Read full poem)
8. The Harbor - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 8351 times on American Poems.
PASSING through huddled and ugly walls
By doorways where women
Looked from their hunger-deep eyes,
Haunted with shadows of hunger-hands,
Out from the huddled and ugly walls,
I came sudden, at the city's edge,
On a blue burst of lake,
Long lake waves... (Read full poem)
9. Birth-Dues - written by Robinson Jeffers
From Dear Judas And Other Poems.
Read 741 times on American Poems.
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely
contemptible, the dangled
Carrot the ass follows to market or precipice;
But limitary pain -- the rock under the tower
and the hewn coping
That takes thunder at the head of the... (Read full poem)
10. A Prison gets to be a friend -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2254 times on American Poems.
A Prison gets to be a friend --
Between its Ponderous face
And Ours -- a Kinsmanship express --
And in its narrow Eyes --
We come to look with gratitude
For the appointed Beam
It deal us -- stated as our food --
And hungered for -- the same --
We... (Read full poem)
11. The Road and the End - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Read 5214 times on American Poems.
I SHALL foot it
Down the roadway in the dusk,
Where shapes of hunger wander
And the fugitives of pain go by.
I shall foot it
In the silence of the morning,
See the night slur into dawn,
Hear the slow great winds arise
Where tall trees flank... (Read full poem)
12. A Waif - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 440 times on American Poems.
My soul is like a poor caged bird to-night,
Beating its wings against the prison bars,
Longing to reach the outer world of light,
And, all untrammelled, soar among the stars.
Wild, mighty thoughts struggle within my soul
For utterance. Great... (Read full poem)
13. You Felons on Trial in Courts. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1865 times on American Poems.
YOU felons on trial in courts;
You convicts in prison-cells—you sentenced assassins, chain’d and
hand-cuff’d
with
iron;
Who am I, too, that I am not on trial, or in prison?
Me, ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are... (Read full poem)
14. 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)
15. 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)
16. 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)
17. Multiplication - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2182 times on American Poems.
(For S. M. E.)
I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well;
I look my last upon His small and radiant prison-cell;
O happy lamp! to serve Him with never ceasing light!
O happy flame! to tremble forever in His sight!
I leave the holy... (Read full poem)
18. Of God we ask one favor, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3003 times on American Poems.
Of God we ask one favor,
That we may be forgiven --
For what, he is presumed to know --
The Crime, from us, is hidden --
Immured the whole of Life
Within a magic Prison
We reprimand the Happiness
That too competes with Heaven.(Read full poem)
19. Non-Possession is One-Tenth of the Law - written by Terence Winch
From The Drift of Things.
Published in 2001.
Read 442 times on American Poems.
Do not travel over vast distances.
Stay home and contemplate your neighbor,
the old woman who roams up and down the street.
She can never remember who you are
or who she is, for that matter.
This way, you will protect
your precarious sense of... (Read full poem)
20. The Beggar's Valentine - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 417 times on American Poems.
Kiss me and comfort my heart
Maiden honest and fine.
I am the pilgrim boy
Lame, but hunting the shrine;
Fleeing away from the sweets,
Seeking the dust and rain,
Sworn to the staff and road,
Scorning pleasure and pain;... (Read full poem)
21. adam thinking - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1130 times on American Poems.
she
stolen from my bone
is it any wonder
i hunger to tunnel back
inside desperate
to reconnect the rib and clay
and to be whole again
some need is in me
struggling to roar through my
mouth into a name
this creation is so fierce
i would... (Read full poem)
22. Of Paul and Silas it is said - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1598 times on American Poems.
Of Paul and Silas it is said
There were in Prison laid
But when they went to take them out
They were not there instead.
Security the same insures
To our assaulted Minds --
The staple must be optional
That an Immortal binds.(Read full poem)
23. Subway - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 6269 times on American Poems.
DOWN between the walls of shadow
Where the iron laws insist,
The hunger voices mock.
The worn wayfaring men
With the hunched and humble shoulders,
Throw their laughter into toil.(Read full poem)
24. 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)
25. To Marguerite - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From New England Magazine.
Published in 1897.
Read 267 times on American Poems.
So great my debt to thee, I know my life
Is all too short to pay the least I owe,
And though I live it all in that sweet strife,
Still shall I be insolvent when I go.
Bid, then, thy Bailiff Cupid come to me
And bind and lead me... (Read full poem)
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