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The term "pain silence blind" has been searched for 23 times on the American Poems site since April 21st, 2005.
Search Results: 4 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Lessons In Hunger - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4838 times on American Poems.
"Do you like me?"
I asked the blue blazer.
No answer.
Silence bounced out of his books.
Silence fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind... (Read full poem)
2. To learn the Transport by the Pain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2228 times on American Poems.
To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst -- suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!
To stay the homesick -- homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore --
Haunted by native lands, the while --
And blue -- beloved... (Read full poem)
3. Silence is all we dread. - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1912 times on American Poems.
Silence is all we dread.
There's Ransom in a Voice --
But Silence is Infinity.
Himself have not a face.(Read full poem)
4. Silence - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1538 times on American Poems.
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence of the sick
When their eyes roam about the room.
And I ask: For the depths,
Of what use is... (Read full poem)
5. Cartographies of Silence - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 3849 times on American Poems.
1.
A conversation begins
with a lie. and each
speaker of the so-called common language feels
the ice-floe split, the drift apart
as if powerless, as if up against
a force of nature
A poem can being
with a lie. And be torn up.... (Read full poem)
6. Blind Bartimeus - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Ballads and Other Poems.
Read 4507 times on American Poems.
Blind Bartimeus at the gates
Of Jericho in darkness waits;
He hears the crowd;--he hears a breath
Say, "It is Christ of Nazareth!"
And calls, in tones of agony,
The thronging multitudes increase;
Blind Bartimeus, hold thy peace!
But still, above... (Read full poem)
7. Blind Jack - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 625 times on American Poems.
I had fiddled all day at the county fair.
But driving home "Butch" Weldy and Jack McGuire,
Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle
To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses
Till they ran away.
Blind as I was, I tried to... (Read full poem)
8. Fault - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 1413 times on American Poems.
They came to tell your faults to me,
They named them over one by one;
I laughed aloud when they were done,
I knew them all so well before, --
Oh, they were blind, too blind to see
Your faults had made me love you more.(Read full poem)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. The Silence - written by Wendell Berry
From The Country of Marriage.
Read 2862 times on American Poems.
Though the air is full of singing
my head is loud
with the labor of words.
Though the season is rich
with fruit, my tongue
hungers for the sweet of speech.
Though the beech is golden
I cannot stand beside it
mute, but must say
"It is... (Read full poem)
14. The Answer - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Read 2170 times on American Poems.
You have spoken the answer.
A child searches far sometimes
Into the red dust
On a dark rose leaf
And so you have gone far
For the answer is:
Silence.
In the republic
Of the winking stars and spent cataclysms
Sure we are it is off there... (Read full poem)
16. Dorcas Gustine - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 426 times on American Poems.
I was not beloved of the villagers,
But all because I spoke my mind,
And met those who transgressed against me
With plain remonstrance, hiding nor nurturing
Nor secret griefs nor grudges.
That act of the Spartan boy is greatly praised,
Who hid... (Read full poem)
17. Hillcrest - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 467 times on American Poems.
(To Mrs. Edward MacDowell)
No sound of any storm that shakes
Old island walls with older seas
Comes here where now September makes
An island in a sea of trees.
Between the sunlight and the shade
A man may learn till he forgets
The... (Read full poem)
18. Air - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 3477 times on American Poems.
Naturally it is night.
Under the overturned lute with its
One string I am going my way
Which has a strange sound.
This way the dust, that way the dust.
I listen to both sides
But I keep right on.
I remember the leaves sitting in judgment
And then... (Read full poem)
19. Masks - written by Ezra Pound
Read 5599 times on American Poems.
These tales of old disguisings, are they not
Strange myths of souls that found themselves among
Unwonted folk that spake an hostile tongue,
Some soul from all the rest who'd not forgot
The star-span acres of a former lot
Where boundless mid... (Read full poem)
20. 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)
21. up into the silence the green... (41) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 6490 times on American Poems.
up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it
you will(kiss me)go
out into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it
(kiss me)you will go
on into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it
you will go(kiss... (Read full poem)
23. House Of Silence - written by Philip Levine
Read 602 times on American Poems.
The winter sun, golden and tired,
settles on the irregular army
of bottles. Outside the trucks
jostle toward the open road,
outside it's Saturday afternoon,
and young women in black pass by
arm in arm. This bar
is the house of silence, and we... (Read full poem)
24. Sonnet- Silence - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 3176 times on American Poems.
There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore-
Body and... (Read full poem)
25. 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)
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