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The term "pain of the past" has been searched for 51 times on the American Poems site since November 15th, 2004.
Search Results: 3 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. 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)
2. Salute - written by James Schuyler
From Freely Espousing.
Published in 1969.
Read 592 times on American Poems.
Past is past, and if one
remembers what one meant
to do and never did, is
not to have thought to do
enough? Like that gather-
ing of one each I
planned, to gather one
of each kind of clover,
daisy, paintbrush that
grew in that field
the cabin stood... (Read full poem)
3. 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)
4. At last, to be identified! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1904 times on American Poems.
At last, to be identified!
At last, the lamps upon thy side
The rest of Life to see!
Past Midnight! Past the Morning Star!
Past Sunrise!
Ah, What leagues there were
Between our feet, and Day!(Read full poem)
5. At Half past Three, a single Bird - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2544 times on American Poems.
At Half past Three, a single Bird
Unto a silent Sky
Propounded but a single term
Of cautious melody.
At Half past Four, Experiment
Had subjugated test
And lo, Her silver Principle
Supplanted all the rest.
At Half past Seven, Element
Nor Implement,... (Read full poem)
6. 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)
7. A Golden Day - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1681 times on American Poems.
The subtle beauty of this day
Hangs o'er me like a fairy spell,
And care and grief have flown away,
And every breeze sings, "all is well."
I ask, "Holds earth or sin, or woe?"
My heart replies, "I do not know."
Nay! all we know, or... (Read full poem)
8. i am accused of tending to the past - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1121 times on American Poems.
i am accused of tending to the past
as if i made it,
as if i sculpted it
with my own hands. i did not.
this past was waiting for me
when i came,
a monstrous unnamed baby,
and i with my mother's itch
took it to breast
and named... (Read full poem)
9. Turn, O Libertad. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 5143 times on American Poems.
TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over,
(From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,)
Turn from lands retrospective, recording proofs of the past;
From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the... (Read full poem)
10. Star of My Heart - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 926 times on American Poems.
Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
Where Time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah's... (Read full poem)
11. The Big Boots Of Pain - written by Anne Sexton
Read 3115 times on American Poems.
There can be certain potions
needled in the clock
for the body's fall from grace,
to untorture and to plead for.
These I have known
and would sell all my furniture
and books and assorted goods
to avoid, and more, more.
But the other pain
I... (Read full poem)
12. 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)
13. Parable Of Faith - written by Louise Gluck
From Meadowlands.
Published in 1996.
Read 1438 times on American Poems.
Now, in twilight, on the palace steps
the king asks forgiveness of his lady.
He is not
duplicitous; he has tried to be
true to the moment; is there another way of being
true to the self?
The lady
hides her face, somewhat
assisted by the... (Read full poem)
14. She could not live upon the Past - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1506 times on American Poems.
She could not live upon the Past
The Present did not know her
And so she sought this sweet at last
And nature gently owned her
The mother that has not a knell
for either Duke or Robin(Read full poem)
15. 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)
16. I started Early -- Took my Dog -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 17956 times on American Poems.
I started Early -- Took my Dog --
And visited the Sea --
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me --
And Frigates -- in the Upper Floor
Extended Hempen Hands --
Presuming Me to be a Mouse --
Aground -- upon the Sands --
But no... (Read full poem)
17. Life - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 728 times on American Poems.
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race,
By only running right,
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its... (Read full poem)
18. Love Is Not All - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 18604 times on American Poems.
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set... (Read full poem)
19. Exultation is the going - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4745 times on American Poems.
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity --
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?(Read full poem)
20. If anybody's friend be dead - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3490 times on American Poems.
If anybody's friend be dead
It's sharpest of the theme
The thinking how they walked alive --
At such and such a time --
Their costume, of a Sunday,
Some manner of the Hair --
A prank nobody knew but them
Lost, in the Sepulchre --
How warm, they... (Read full poem)
21. Are Friends Delight or Pain? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4621 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)
22. Today or this noon - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1480 times on American Poems.
Today or this noon
She dwelt so close
I almost touched her --
Tonight she lies
Past neighborhood
And bough and steeple,
Now past surmise.(Read full poem)
23. The Past is such a curious Creature - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1620 times on American Poems.
The Past is such a curious Creature
To look her in the Face
A Transport may receipt us
Or a Disgrace --
Unarmed if any meet her
I charge him fly
Her faded Ammunition
Might yet reply.(Read full poem)
24. 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)
25. Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau! - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2494 times on American Poems.
I know I might have lived in such a way
As to have suffered only pain:
Loving not man nor dog;
Not money, even; feeling
Toothache perhaps, but never more than an hour away
From skill and novocaine;
Making no contacts, dealing with life through... (Read full poem)
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