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The term "pain+strong" has been searched for 35 times on the American Poems site since June 28th, 2005.
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1. Sex Goddess - written by Maggie Estep
Read 1731 times on American Poems.
I am THE SEX GODDESS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
so don't mess with me
I've got a big bag full of SEX TOYS
and you can't have any
'cause they're all mine
'cause I'm
the SEX GODDESS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
"Hey," you may say to... (Read full poem)
2. Returned To Say - written by William Stafford
From Contemporary American Poetry.
Read 1951 times on American Poems.
When I face north a lost Cree
on some new shore puts a moccasin down,
rock in the light and noon for seeing,
he in a hurry and I beside him
It will be a long trip; he will be a new chief;
we have drunk new water from an unnamed stream;
under little... (Read full poem)
3. How To Psalmodize - written by Charles Simic
From The Major Young Poets.
Read 688 times on American Poems.
1. The Poet
Someone awake when others are sleeping,
Asleep when others are awake.
An illiterate who signs everything with an X.
A man about to be hanged cracking a joke.
2. The Poem
It is a piece of meat
Carried by a burglar
To distract a... (Read full poem)
4. The Cut Finger - written by Ellis Parker Butler
From Century Magazine.
Published in 1909.
Read 348 times on American Poems.
THE GOSSOON [Weeping]
It’s bleedin’! It’s bleedin’!
THE OULD WOMAN [Soothingly]
An’ shure, me lad, ‘t is bleedin’;
But come, me hearty laddy buck, be brave an’ do not cry;
A lad that’s learnin’ readin’ sh’u'd be far beyant the... (Read full poem)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. Pain -- expands the Time -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1977 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)
8. He was weak, and I was strong -- then - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3557 times on American Poems.
He was weak, and I was strong -- then --
So He let me lead him in --
I was weak, and He was strong then --
So I let him lead me -- Home.
'Twasn't far -- the door was near --
'Twasn't dark -- for He went -- too --
'Twasn't loud, for He said nought... (Read full poem)
9. Hurt Hawks - written by Robinson Jeffers
Published in 1938.
Read 3544 times on American Poems.
I
The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,
No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is... (Read full poem)
10. The Light of Stars - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Voices of the Night.
Read 6911 times on American Poems.
The night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently,
All silently, the little moon
Drops down behind the sky.
There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.
Is... (Read full poem)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1138 times on American Poems.
Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds
To drink -- enables Mine
Through Desert or the Wilderness
As bore it Sealed Wine --
To go elastic -- Or as One
The Camel's trait -- attained --
How powerful the Stimulus
Of an Hermetic Mind --(Read full poem)
14. Are Friends Delight or Pain? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4622 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)
15. Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4219 times on American Poems.
Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night, since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
Thou can'st not boast, like Jesus, drunken without... (Read full poem)
16. Liebestod - written by Alan Seeger
Read 470 times on American Poems.
I who, conceived beneath another star,
Had been a prince and played with life, instead
Have been its slave, an outcast exiled far
From the fair things my faith has merited.
My ways have been the ways that wanderers tread
And those that... (Read full poem)
17. Last Invocation, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 3102 times on American Poems.
1
AT the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful, fortress’d house,
From the clasp of the knitted locks—from the keep of the well-closed doors,
Let me be wafted.
2
Let me glide noiselessly forth;
With the key of softness... (Read full poem)
18. 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)
19. Crimson Rambler - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1303 times on American Poems.
NOW that a crimson rambler
begins to crawl over the house
of our two lives—
Now that a red curve
winds across the shingles—
Now that hands
washed in early sunrises
climb and spill scarlet
on a white lattice... (Read full poem)
20. 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)
21. Ossawatomie - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1406 times on American Poems.
I DON’T know how he came,
shambling, dark, and strong.
He stood in the city and told men:
My people are fools, my people are young and strong, my people must learn, my people are terrible workers and fighters.
Always he kept on asking: Where... (Read full poem)
22. To Earthward - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 7167 times on American Poems.
Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air
That crossed me from sweet things,
The scent of -- was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Down hill at dusk?
I had the swirl and ache
From... (Read full poem)
23. 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)
24. If I Could But Forget - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 1750 times on American Poems.
If I could but forget
The fullness of those first sweet days,
When you burst sun-like thro' the haze
Of unacquaintance, on my sight,
And made the wet, gray day seem bright
While clouds themselves grew fair to see.
And since, no day is... (Read full poem)
25. Eulalie - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 1363 times on American Poems.
I dwelt alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.
Ah, less- less bright
The stars of the night
Than... (Read full poem)
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