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The term "pain utter bone" has been searched for 37 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. The Bone that has no Marrow, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1334 times on American Poems.
The Bone that has no Marrow,
What Ultimate for that?
It is not fit for Table
For Beggar or for Cat.
A Bone has obligations --
A Being has the same --
A Marrowless Assembly
Is culpabler than shame.
But how shall finished Creatures
A function fresh... (Read full poem)
3. The Alchemist - written by Louise Bogan
Read 1328 times on American Poems.
I burned my life, that I may find
A passion wholly of the mind,
Thought divorced from eye and bone
Ecstasy come to breath alone.
I broke my life, to seek relief
From the flawed light of love and grief.
With mounting beat the utter fire
Charred... (Read full poem)
4. Refrain - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Collected Poems 1947-1980.
Read 11487 times on American Poems.
The air is dark, the night is sad,
I lie sleepless and I groan.
Nobody cares when a man goes mad:
He is sorry, God is glad.
Shadow changes into bone.
Every shadow has a name;
When I think of mine I moan,
I hear rumors of such fame.
Not for pride,... (Read full poem)
5. Jazzanatomy - written by James A. Emanuel
From Jazz From the Haiku King.
Published in 1999.
Read 1491 times on American Poems.
EVERYTHING is jazz:
snails, jails, rails, tails, males, females,
snow-white cotton bales.
Knee-bone, thigh, hip-bone.
Jazz slips you percussion bone
classified "unknown."
Slick lizard rhythms,
cigar-smoke tunes,... (Read full poem)
6. I Saw Myself - written by Lew Welch
Read 772 times on American Poems.
I saw myself
a ring of bone
in the clear stream
of all of it
and vowed
always to be open to it
that all of it
might flow through
and then heard
"ring of bone" where
ring is what a
bell does(Read full poem)
7. The wind drew off - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1872 times on American Poems.
The wind drew off
Like hungry dogs
Defeated of a bone --
Through fissures in
Volcanic cloud
The yellow lightning shone --
The trees held up
Their mangled limbs
Like animals in pain --
When Nature falls upon herself
Beware an Austrian.(Read full poem)
8. It is easy to work when the soul is at play - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2536 times on American Poems.
It is easy to work when the soul is at play --
But when the soul is in pain --
The hearing him put his playthings up
Makes work difficult -- then --
It is simple, to ache in the Bone, or the Rind --
But Gimlets -- among the nerve --
Mangle daintier... (Read full poem)
9. The Fury Of Beautiful Bones - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 3328 times on American Poems.
Sing me a thrush, bone.
Sing me a nest of cup and pestle.
Sing me a sweetbread fr an old grandfather.
Sing me a foot and a doorknob, for you are my love.
Oh sing, bone bag man, sing.
Your head is what I remember that Augusty
you were in love... (Read full poem)
10. Alone With Everybody - written by Charles Bukowski
From Shake the Kaleidoscope.
Published in 1977.
Read 2865 times on American Poems.
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers... (Read full poem)
11. Love Is Not All - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 18601 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)
12. 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)
13. 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)
14. Irony - written by Amy Lowell
From Sword Blades & Poppy Seed.
Read 9812 times on American Poems.
An arid daylight shines along the beach
Dried to a grey monotony of tone,
And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon
The sun-baked pebbles, far beyond their reach
Sparkles a wet, reviving sea. Here bleach
The skeletons of fishes, every... (Read full poem)
15. 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)
16. Dream Barker - written by Jean Valentine
From Home Deep Blue.
Published in 1988.
Read 627 times on American Poems.
We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat.
I got there first: in a white dress: I remember
Wondering if you'd come. Then you shot over the bank,
A Virgilian Nigger Jim, and poled us off
To a little sea-food barker's cave you... (Read full poem)
17. Cadenza - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1982 times on American Poems.
THE KNEES
of this proud woman
are bone.
The elbows
of this proud woman
are bone.
The summer-white stars
and the winter-white stars
never stop circling
around this proud woman.
The bones
of this proud woman
answer the vibrations... (Read full poem)
19. Hurt Hawks - written by Robinson Jeffers
Published in 1938.
Read 3544 times on American Poems.
I
The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,
No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is... (Read full poem)
20. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1690 times on American Poems.
HAST never come to thee an hour,
A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
To utter nothingness?(Read full poem)
21. Some say goodnight -- at night -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 5735 times on American Poems.
Some say goodnight -- at night --
I say goodnight by day --
Good-bye -- the Going utter me --
Goodnight, I still reply --
For parting, that is night,
And presence, simply dawn --
Itself, the purple on the height
Denominated morn.(Read full poem)
22. 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)
23. Lines On Facing Forty - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2743 times on American Poems.
I have a bone to pick with Fate.
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotted early?(Read full poem)
24. Term - written by W.S. Merwin
Read 761 times on American Poems.
At the last minute a word is waiting
not heard that way before and not to be
repeated or ever be remembered
one that always had been a household word
used in speaking of the ordinary
everyday recurrences of living
not newly chosen or long... (Read full poem)
25. The Morning after Woe - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2035 times on American Poems.
The Morning after Woe --
'Tis frequently the Way --
Surpasses all that rose before --
For utter Jubilee --
As Nature did not care --
And piled her Blossoms on --
And further to parade a Joy
Her Victim stared upon --
The Birds declaim their Tunes... (Read full poem)
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