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The term "painful past" has been searched for 69 times on the American Poems site since November 16th, 2004.
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1. Insomniac - written by Maya Angelou
Read 13124 times on American Poems.
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful. (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. September 1961 - written by Denise Levertov
Read 766 times on American Poems.
This is the year the old ones,
the old great ones
leave us alone on the road.
The road leads to the sea.
We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence,
we see it moving away... (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. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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)
9. 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)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. 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)
14. Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 1664 times on American Poems.
AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!
Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!
(For what is my life, or any man’s life, but a conflict with foes—the old, the
incessant
war?)
You degradations—you tussle with passions... (Read full poem)
15. The Visitation - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 1395 times on American Poems.
(For Louise Imogen Guiney)
There is a wall of flesh before the eyes
Of John, who yet perceives and hails his King.
It is Our Lady's painful bliss to bring
Before mankind the Glory of the skies.
Her cousin feels her womb's sweet burden... (Read full poem)
16. The Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939) - written by Robinson Jeffers
Published in 1941.
Read 1846 times on American Poems.
This morning Hitler spoke in Danzig, we hear his voice.
A man of genius: that is, of amazing
Ability, courage, devotion, cored on a sick child's soul,
Heard clearly through the dog wrath, a sick child
Wailing in Danzig; invoking destruction and... (Read full poem)
17. The List of Famous Hats - written by James Tate
From Reckoner.
Published in 1986.
Read 7634 times on American Poems.
Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous
hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for
show. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all hon-
esty wasn't much different than the one any jerk... (Read full poem)
18. I was Looking a Long While. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2936 times on American Poems.
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these
chants—and now I have found it;
It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject;)
It is no more in the legends... (Read full poem)
19. Mail Call - written by Randall Jarrell
Read 1139 times on American Poems.
The letters always just evade the hand
One skates like a stone into a beam, falls like a bird.
Surely the past from which the letters rise
Is waiting in the future, past the graves?
The soldiers are all haunted by their lives.
Their claims upon... (Read full poem)
20. Bereft - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 10530 times on American Poems.
Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and day was past.
Somber clouds in the west were... (Read full poem)
21. Helen - written by H. D.
Read 7570 times on American Poems.
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre of the olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past... (Read full poem)
22. Old Times - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 784 times on American Poems.
Friend of my youth, let us talk of old times;
Of the long lost golden hours.
When "Winter" meant only Christmas chimes,
And "Summer" wreaths of flowers.
Life has grown old, and cold, my friend,
And the winter now, means death.
And... (Read full poem)
23. Skating (4) - written by e.e. cummings
Read 10698 times on American Poems.
Spring is past, and Summer's past,
Autumn's come, and going;
Weather seems as though at last
We might get some snowing.
Spring was good, and Summer better,
But the best of all is waiting,-
Madame Winter-don't forget her.-
O
You... (Read full poem)
25. In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams - written by Wendell Berry
Read 1152 times on American Poems.
I.
The poem is important, but
not more than the people
whose survival it serves,
one of the necessities, so they may
speak what is true, and have
the patience for beauty: the weighted
grainfield, the shady street,
the well-laid stone and the... (Read full poem)
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