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The term "pain over being lied to" has been searched for 4 times on the American Poems site since June 16th, 2007.
Search Results: 1 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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2. Amos Sibley - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 392 times on American Poems.
Not character, not fortitude, not patience
Were mine, the which the village thought I had
In bearing with my wife, while preaching on,
Doing the work God chose for me.
I loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton.
I knew of her adulteries, every... (Read full poem)
3. When We Were Here Together - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 1156 times on American Poems.
when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one
another.
A bit of grass held between the teeth for a moment, bright hair on the
wind.
What we were we did not know, nor even the grass or the flame of
hair turning to ash on the... (Read full poem)
4. My First Affair With That Older Woman - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3315 times on American Poems.
when I look back now
at the abuse I took from
her
I feel shame that I was so
innocent,
but I must say
she did match me drink for
drink,
and I realized that her life
her feelings for things
had been ruined
along the way
and that I was no... (Read full poem)
5. The Companion - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 456 times on American Poems.
Let him answer as he will,
Or be lightsome as he may,
Now nor after shall he say
Worn-out words enough to kill,
Or to lull down by their craft,
Doubt, that was born yesterday,
When he lied and when she laughed.
Let him and another name
for... (Read full poem)
6. Mrs. Meyers - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 388 times on American Poems.
He protested all his life long
The newspapers lied about him villainously;
That he was not at fault for Minerva's fall,
But only tried to help her.
Poor soul so sunk in sin he could not see
That even trying to help her, as he called it,
He... (Read full poem)
7. The Wish - written by Louise Gluck
From Meadowlands.
Published in 1996.
Read 2232 times on American Poems.
Remember that time you made the wish?
I make a lot of wishes.
The time I lied to you
about the butterfly. I always wondered
what you wished for.
What do you think I wished for?
I don't know. That I'd come back,
that we'd... (Read full poem)
8. Fable - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 2606 times on American Poems.
Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told,
Whose lover grew weary, whose lover grew cold.
"My child," he remarked, "though our episode ends,
In the manner of men, I suggest we be friends."
And the truest of friends ever after they were-
Oh,... (Read full poem)
9. 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)
10. 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)
11. In The Deep Museum - written by Anne Sexton
Read 11864 times on American Poems.
My God, my God, what queer corner am I in?
Didn't I die, blood running down the post,
lungs gagging for air, die there for the sin
of anyone, my sour mouth giving up the ghost?
Surely my body is done? Surely I died?
And yet, I know, I'm here.... (Read full poem)
12. The Goose-Girl - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 2788 times on American Poems.
Spring rides no horses down the hill,
But comes on foot, a goose-girl still.
And all the loveliest things there be
Come simply, so, it seems to me.
If ever I said, in grief or pride,
I tired of honest things, I lied:
And should be cursed... (Read full poem)
13. 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)
14. Leffingwell - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 336 times on American Poems.
I—THE LURE
No, no,—forget your Cricket and your Ant,
For I shall never set my name to theirs
That now bespeak the very sons and heirs
Incarnate of Queen Gossip and King Cant.
The case of Leffingwell is mixed, I grant,
And futile Seems... (Read full poem)
15. Rosie Roberts - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 509 times on American Poems.
I was sick, but more than that, I was mad
At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life.
So I wrote to the Chief of Police at Peoria:
"I am here in my girlhood home in Spoon River,
Gradually wasting away.
But come and take me, I killed... (Read full poem)
16. Eighth Air Force - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 3025 times on American Poems.
If, in an odd angle of the hutment,
A puppy laps the water from a can
Of flowers, and the drunk sergeant shaving
Whistles O Paradiso!--shall I say that man
Is not as men have said: a wolf to man?
The other murderers troop in yawning;
Three of them... (Read full poem)
17. Mrs. Williams - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 612 times on American Poems.
I was the milliner
Talked about, lied about,
Mother of Dora,
Whose strange disappearance
Was charged to her rearing.
My eye quick to beauty
Saw much beside ribbons
And buckles and feathers
And leghorns and felts,
To set off sweet... (Read full poem)
18. 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)
19. 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)
20. Wendell P. Bloyd - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1072 times on American Poems.
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,
There being no statute on blasphemy.
Later they locked me up as insane
Where I was beaten to death by a Catholic guard.
My offense was this:
I said God lied to Adam, and destined him
to lead the... (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. 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)
23. 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)
24. 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)
25. Cockroach - written by Anne Sexton
Read 7108 times on American Poems.
Roach, foulest of creatures,
who attacks with yellow teeth
and an army of cousins big as shoes,
you are lumps of coal that are mechanized
and when I turn on the light you scuttle
into the corners and there is this hiss upon the land.
Yet I know you... (Read full poem)
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