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The term "pain of death" has been searched for 58 times on the American Poems site since February 1st, 2005.
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1. 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)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. Testament - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 2327 times on American Poems.
Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain
And singing breezes, when my bell is tolled.
I have so loved the rain that I would hold
Last in my ears its friendly, dim refraln.
I shall lie cool and quiet, who have lain
Fevered, and watched the book of day... (Read full poem)
5. 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)
6. 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)
8. Distance - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 10590 times on American Poems.
Were you to cross the world, my dear,
To work or love or fight,
I could be calm and wistful here,
And close my eyes at night.
It were a sweet and gallant pain
To be a sea apart;
But, oh, to have you down the lane
Is bitter to my heart.(Read full poem)
9. 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)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. Death Snips Proud Men - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 3490 times on American Poems.
DEATH is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then death laughs: Now you see ’em, now you don’t.
Death is stronger than all proud men and so death snips proud men on the nose, throws a pair... (Read full poem)
13. Ultimatum - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 4742 times on American Poems.
I'm wearied of wearying love, my friend,
Of worry and strain and doubt;
Before we begin, let us view the end,
And maybe I'll do without.
There's never the pang that was worth the tear,
And toss in the night I won't-
So either you do or you don't, my... (Read full poem)
14. dying is fine)but Death - written by e.e. cummings
Read 37698 times on American Poems.
dying is fine)but Death
?o
baby
i
wouldn't like
Death if Death
were
good:for
when(instead of stopping to think)you
begin to feel of it,dying
's miraculous
why?be
cause dying is
perfectly natural;perfectly
putting
it mildly... (Read full poem)
15. 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)
16. The Fury Of Rainstorms - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 3059 times on American Poems.
The rain drums down like red ants,
each bouncing off my window.
The ants are in great pain
and they cry out as they hit
as if their little legs were only
stitche don and their heads pasted.
And oh they bring to mind the grave,
so humble, so... (Read full poem)
17. 90 North - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 2152 times on American Poems.
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides
I sailed all night—till at last, with my black beard,
My furs and my dogs, I stood at the northern pole.
There in the childish night my... (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. Writing - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2259 times on American Poems.
often it is the only
thing
between you and
impossibility.
no drink,
no woman's love,
no wealth
can
match it.
nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.
the hordes from
closing in.
it blasts the
darkness.
writing is... (Read full poem)
20. I measure every Grief I meet - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4117 times on American Poems.
I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes --
I wonder if It weighs like Mine --
Or has an Easier size.
I wonder if They bore it long --
Or did it just begin --
I could not tell the Date of Mine --
It feels so old a pain --
I wonder... (Read full poem)
21. 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)
22. 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)
23. Death is a Dialogue between - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5679 times on American Poems.
Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
"Dissolve" says Death -- The Spirit "Sir
I have another Trust" --
Death doubts it -- Argues from the Ground --
The Spirit turns away
Just laying off for evidence
An Overcoat of Clay.(Read full poem)
24. Upon a Fit of Sickness - written by Anne Bradstreet
Published in 1632.
Read 1263 times on American Poems.
Twice ten years old not fully told
since nature gave me breath,
My race is run, my thread spun,
lo, here is fatal death.
All men must die, and so must I;
this cannot be revoked.
For Adam's sake this word God spake
when he so high... (Read full poem)
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