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The term "pain of growing up in society" has been searched for 1 times on the American Poems site since February 21st, 2008.
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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. Never for Society - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5403 times on American Poems.
Never for Society
He shall seek in vain --
Who His own acquaintance
Cultivate -- Of Men
Wiser Men may weary --
But the Man within
Never knew Satiety --
Better entertain
Than could Border Ballad --
Or Biscayan Hymn --
Neither introduction
Need You... (Read full poem)
4. The Soul selects her own Society - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 21003 times on American Poems.
The Soul selects her own Society --
Then -- shuts the Door --
To her divine Majority --
Present no more --
Unmoved -- she notes the Chariots -- pausing --
At her low Gate --
Unmoved -- an Emperor be kneeling
Upon her Mat --
I've known her -- from... (Read full poem)
5. Amelia Garrick - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 453 times on American Poems.
Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush
In a forgotten place near the fence
Where the thickets from Siever's woods
Have crept over, growing sparsely.
And you, you are a leader in New York,
The wife of a noted millionaire,
A name in the... (Read full poem)
6. Mine Enemy is growing old -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4227 times on American Poems.
Mine Enemy is growing old --
I have at last Revenge --
The Palate of the Hate departs --
If any would avenge
Let him be quick -- the Viand flits --
It is a faded Meat --
Anger as soon as fed is dead --
'Tis starving makes it fat --(Read full poem)
7. My Nose Is Growing Old - written by Richard Brautigan
Read 2470 times on American Poems.
Yup.
A long lazy September look
in the mirror
say it's true.
I'm 31
and my nose is growing
old.
It starts about 1/2
an inch
below the bridge
and strolls geriatrically
down
for another inch or so:
stopping.
Fortunately, the rest
of the nose is... (Read full poem)
8. We miss Her, not because We see -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2449 times on American Poems.
We miss Her, not because We see --
The Absence of an Eye --
Except its Mind accompany
Abridge Society
As slightly as the Routes of Stars --
Ourselves -- asleep below --
We know that their superior Eyes
Include Us -- as they go --(Read full poem)
9. Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day - written by Marge Piercy
Read 946 times on American Poems.
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
Forty feet of Corinthian candle
celebrate Pullman embedded
lonely raisin in a cake of concrete.
The Potter Palmers float
in an island parthenon.
Barons of... (Read full poem)
10. Destruction Of Daughters - written by Lee Upton
Read 464 times on American Poems.
The friend who is concerned
with backdrops, not us,
but what we stand against,
his way of looking at the women
he loves,
to not look at them at all
but at roofs, a bit of sky.
To understand when exactly
a woman is angry
because of the way she... (Read full poem)
11. To Ellen, At The South - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 1988 times on American Poems.
The green grass is growing,
The morning wind is in it,
'Tis a tune worth the knowing,
Though it change every minute.
'Tis a tune of the spring,
Every year plays it over,
To the robin on the wing,
To the pausing lover.
O'er ten thousand thousand... (Read full poem)
12. The grave my little cottage is, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1951 times on American Poems.
The grave my little cottage is,
Where "Keeping house" for thee
I make my parlor orderly
And lay the marble tea.
For two divided, briefly,
A cycle, it may be,
Till everlasting life unite
In strong society.(Read full poem)
13. There is a solitude of space - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 11260 times on American Poems.
There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself --
Finite infinity.(Read full poem)
14. 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)
15. I went to Heaven - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3739 times on American Poems.
I went to Heaven --
'Twas a small Town --
Lit -- with a Ruby --
Lathed -- with Down --
Stiller -- than the fields
At the full Dew --
Beautiful -- as Pictures --
No Man drew.
People -- like the Moth --
Of Mechlin -- frames --
Duties -- of Gossamer... (Read full poem)
16. Prairie States, The. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1882 times on American Poems.
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
By all the world contributed—freedom’s and law’s and thrift’s... (Read full poem)
17. 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)
18. Foreign Missions in Battle Array - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 461 times on American Poems.
An endless line of splendor,
These troops with heaven for home,
With creeds they go from Scotland,
With incense go from Rome.
These, in the name of Jesus,
Against the dark gods stand,
They gird the earth with valor,
They heed their... (Read full poem)
19. Conscious am I in my Chamber, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1827 times on American Poems.
Conscious am I in my Chamber,
Of a shapeless friend --
He doth not attest by Posture --
Nor Confirm -- by Word --
Neither Place -- need I present Him --
Fitter Courtesy
Hospitable intuition
Of His Company --
Presence -- is His furthest license... (Read full poem)
20. I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 4917 times on American Poems.
I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;
Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;
But I... (Read full poem)
21. Goodbye - written by Bill Knott
Read 3229 times on American Poems.
If you are still alive when you read this,
close your eyes. I am
under their lids, growing black.(Read full poem)
22. The Unsubscriber - written by Bill Knott
From The Unsubscriber.
Published in 2000.
Read 659 times on American Poems.
Like all children, you were a de facto
Member of the Flat Earth Society,
Believing nothing but what you could see
Or touch or whatever sense led act to
Fruition: mudpies made summer beneath
A tree whose measured shade endowed decrees
Between light... (Read full poem)
23. 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)
24. From the Rooms of the Prom Queen - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From The Code.
Read 3546 times on American Poems.
I was there with the young men who danced to OZ.
I filled the room with
my expectations,
creamed the walls with my visions
while applauding their rebelliousness.
They would watch me
as I walked
through the door
with my lovely whore
by... (Read full poem)
25. 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)
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