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The term "pain sleep heart drop" has been searched for 36 times on the American Poems site since January 10th, 2005.
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1. 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)
2. Yee Bow - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 542 times on American Poems.
They got me into the Sunday-school
In Spoon River
And tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus.
I could have been no worse off
If I had tried to get them to drop Jesus for Confucius.
For, without any warning, as if it were a prank,
And... (Read full poem)
3. The Heart asks Pleasure -- first -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4147 times on American Poems.
The Heart asks Pleasure -- first --
And then -- Excuse from Pain --
And then -- those little Anodyness
That deaden suffering --
And then -- to go to sleep --
And then -- if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
The privilege to die --(Read full poem)
4. The Burned Child - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 3765 times on American Poems.
Love has had his way with me.
This my heart is torn and maimed
Since he took his play with me.
Cruel well the bow-boy aimed,
Shot, and saw the feathered shaft
Dripping bright and bitter red.
He that shrugged his wings and laughed-
Better had he... (Read full poem)
5. Somebody's Song - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 4463 times on American Poems.
This is what I vow;
He shall have my heart to keep,
Sweetly will we stir and sleep,
All the years, as now.
Swift the measured sands may run;
Love like this is never done;
He and I are welded one:
This is what I vow.
This is what I pray:
Keep him by... (Read full poem)
6. The Growth of Lorraine - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 584 times on American Poems.
I
While I stood listening, discreetly dumb,
Lorraine was having the last word with me:
“I know,” she said, “I know it, but you see
Some creatures are born fortunate, and some
Are born to be found out and overcome,—
Born to be slaves, to... (Read full poem)
7. 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)
8. Music In The Flat - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 363 times on American Poems.
When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat;
I had a taste for singing and playing and all that.
And Tom, who loved to hear me, said he hoped
I would not stop
All practice, like so many wives who let their
music drop.
So I resolved... (Read full poem)
9. I sometimes drop it, for a Quick -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1208 times on American Poems.
I sometimes drop it, for a Quick --
The Thought to be alive --
Anonymous Delight to know --
And Madder -- to conceive --
Consoles a Woe so monstrous
That did it tear all Day,
Without an instant's Respite --
'Twould look too far -- to Die --(Read full poem)
10. Hornet - written by Anne Sexton
Read 2032 times on American Poems.
A red-hot needle
hangs out of him, he steers by it
as if it were a rudder, he
would get in the house any way he could
and then he would bounce from window
to ceiling, buzzing and looking for you.
Do not sleep for he is there wrapped in the... (Read full poem)
11. Sleep - written by Russell Edson
Read 1375 times on American Poems.
There was a man who didn't know how to sleep; nodding
off every night into a drab, unprofessional sleep. Sleep that
he'd grown so tired of sleeping.
He tried reading The Manual of Sleep, but it just put him
to sleep. That same old sleep that he... (Read full poem)
12. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2141 times on American Poems.
The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea --
Forgets her own locality --
As I -- toward Thee --
She knows herself an incense small --
Yet small -- she sighs -- if All -- is All --
How larger -- be?
The Ocean -- smiles -- at her Conceit --
But she,... (Read full poem)
13. Fate slew Him, but He did not drop -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1719 times on American Poems.
Fate slew Him, but He did not drop --
She felled -- He did not fall --
Impaled Him on Her fiercest stakes --
He neutralized them all --
She stung Him -- sapped His firm Advance --
But when Her Worst was done
And He -- unmoved regarded Her... (Read full poem)
14. Eugenia Todd - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 390 times on American Poems.
Have any of you, passers-by,
Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?
Or a pain in the side that never quite left you?
Or a malignant growth that grew with time?
So that even in profoundest slumber
There was shadowy consciousness or... (Read full poem)
15. It Is Not A Word - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 2085 times on American Poems.
It is not a word spoken,
Few words are said;
Nor even a look of the eyes
Nor a bend of the head,
But only a hush of the heart
That has too much to keep,
Only memories waking
That sleep so light a sleep.(Read full poem)
16. I cried at Pity -- not at Pain -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1880 times on American Poems.
I cried at Pity -- not at Pain --
I heard a Woman say
"Poor Child" -- and something in her voice
Convicted me -- of me --
So long I fainted, to myself
It seemed the common way,
And Health, and Laughter, Curious things --
To look at, like a Toy... (Read full poem)
17. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 5209 times on American Poems.
In Springfield, Illinois
IT is portentious, and a thing of state
That here at midnight, in our little town
A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,
Near the old court-house, pacing up and down.
Or by his homestead, or by shadowed yards
He... (Read full poem)
18. 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)
19. 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)
20. Detroit Grease Shop Poem - written by Philip Levine
Read 734 times on American Poems.
Four bright steel crosses,
universal joints, plucked
out of the burlap sack --
"the heart of the drive train,"
the book says. Stars
on Lemon's wooden palm,
stars that must be capped,
rolled, and anointed,
that have their orders
and their commands as... (Read full poem)
21. Mill-Doors - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1912.
Read 2820 times on American Poems.
YOU never come back.
I say good-by when I see you going in the doors,
The hopeless open doors that call and wait
And take you then for--how many cents a day?
How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers?
I say good-by because I know they tap your... (Read full poem)
22. 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)
23. The Sleeper - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Read 4149 times on American Poems.
At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steals drowsily and musically
Into the universal... (Read full poem)
24. Sleep - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 2370 times on American Poems.
she was a short one
getting fat and she had once been
beautiful and
she drank the wine
she drank the wine in bed and
talked and screamed and cursed at
me
and i told her
please, I need some
sleep.
-sleep? sleep? ya son of a
bitch, ya never sleep,... (Read full poem)
25. Autumn Valentine - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 7595 times on American Poems.
In May my heart was breaking-
Oh, wide the wound, and deep!
And bitter it beat at waking,
And sore it split in sleep.
And when it came November,
I sought my heart, and sighed,
"Poor thing, do you remember?"
"What heart was that?" it cried.(Read full poem)
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