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1. Your Riches -- taught me -- Poverty. - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 7347 times on American Poems.
Your Riches -- taught me -- Poverty.
Myself -- a Millionaire
In little Wealths, as Girls could boast
Till broad as Buenos Ayre --
You drifted your Dominions --
A Different Peru --
And I esteemed All Poverty
For Life's Estate with you --
Of Mines,... (Read full poem)
2. Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1873 times on American Poems.
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men --
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty --(Read full poem)
3. To try to speak, and miss the way - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1563 times on American Poems.
To try to speak, and miss the way
And ask it of the Tears,
Is Gratitude's sweet poverty,
The Tatters that he wears --
A better Coat if he possessed
Would help him to conceal,
Not subjugate, the Mutineer
Whose title is "the Soul."(Read full poem)
4. Who Court obtain within Himself - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1350 times on American Poems.
Who Court obtain within Himself
Sees every Man a King --
And Poverty of Monarchy
Is an interior thing --
No Man depose
Whom Fate Ordain --
And Who can add a Crown
To Him who doth continual
Conspire against His Own(Read full poem)
5. Because 'twas Riches I could own, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1209 times on American Poems.
Because 'twas Riches I could own,
Myself had earned it -- Me,
I knew the Dollars by their names --
It feels like Poverty
An Earldom out of sight to hold,
An Income in the Air,
Possession -- has a sweeter chink
Unto a Miser's Ear --(Read full poem)
6. None can experience sting - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1380 times on American Poems.
None can experience sting
Who Bounty -- have not known --
The fact of Famine -- could not be
Except for Fact of Corn --
Want -- is a meagre Art
Acquired by Reverse --
The Poverty that was not Wealth --
Cannot be Indigence.(Read full poem)
7. This was a Poet -- It is That - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4485 times on American Poems.
This was a Poet -- It is That
Distills amazing sense
From ordinary Meanings --
And Attar so immense
From the familiar species
That perished by the Door --
We wonder it was not Ourselves
Arrested it -- before --
Of Pictures, the Discloser --
The... (Read full poem)
8. Berket And The Stars - written by William Carlos Williams
Read 5112 times on American Poems.
A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of
student poverty! One best day out of ten good ones.
Berket in high spirits—"Ha, oranges! Let's have one!"
And he made to snatch an orange from the vender's cart.
Now so clever was the... (Read full poem)
9. The Planet On The Table - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 6305 times on American Poems.
Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
They were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that he liked.
Other makings of the sun
Were waste and welter
And the ripe shrub writhed.
His self and the sun were one
And his poems, although makings of... (Read full poem)
10. Ave Caesar - written by Robinson Jeffers
Published in 1935.
Read 1302 times on American Poems.
No bitterness: our ancestors did it.
They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.
Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar.
Or rather--for we are not aquiline Romans but soft mixed colonists--
Some kindly Sicilian... (Read full poem)
11. Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty - written by Ogden Nash
Read 4147 times on American Poems.
One way to be very happy is to be very rich
For then you can buy orchids by the quire and bacon by the flitch.
And yet at the same time People don't mind if you only tip them a dime,
Because it's very funny
But somehow if you're rich enough you can... (Read full poem)
12. Publication -- is the Auction - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 3648 times on American Poems.
Publication -- is the Auction
Of the Mind of Man --
Poverty -- be justifying
For so foul a thing
Possibly -- but We -- would rather
From Our Garret go
White -- Unto the White Creator --
Than invest -- Our Snow --
Thought belong to Him who gave it... (Read full poem)
13. Hod Putt - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 482 times on American Poems.
Here I lie close to the grave
Of Old Bill Piersol,
Who grew rich trading with the indians, and who
Afterwards took the bankrupt law
And emergeed from it richer than ever.
Myself grown tired of toil and poverty
And beholding how Old Bill... (Read full poem)
14. I play at Riches -- to appease - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2757 times on American Poems.
I play at Riches -- to appease
The Clamoring for Gold --
It kept me from a Thief, I think,
For often, overbold
With Want, and Opportunity --
I could have done a Sin
And been Myself that easy Thing
An independent Man --
But often as my lot... (Read full poem)
15. 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2940 times on American Poems.
'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy!
If I should fail, what poverty!
And yet, as poor as I,
Have ventured all upon a throw!
Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so --
This side the Victory!
Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!
Bliss is, but Bliss, and... (Read full poem)
16. Doctors - written by Anne Sexton
Read 7236 times on American Poems.
They work with herbs
and penicillin
They work with gentleness
and the scalpel.
They dig out the cancer,
close an incision
and say a prayer
to the poverty of the skin.
They are not Gods
though they would like to be;
they are only a human
trying to... (Read full poem)
17. At Seventy-Five: Rereading An Old Book - written by Hayden Carruth
Read 946 times on American Poems.
My prayers have been answered, if they were prayers. I live.
I'm alive, and even in rather good health, I believe.
If I'd quit smoking I might live to be a hundred.
Truly this is astonishing, after the poverty and pain,
The suffering. Who... (Read full poem)
18. My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry - written by James Tate
From Absences.
Published in 1972.
Read 2855 times on American Poems.
There's a fortune to be made in just about everything
in this country, somebody's father had to invent
everything--baby food, tractors, rat poisoning.
My family's obviously done nothing since the beginning
of time. They invented poverty and bad... (Read full poem)
19. John Wasson - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 332 times on American Poems.
Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina
Through which Rebecca followed me wailing, wailing,
One child in her arms, and three that ran along wailing,
Lengthening out the farewell to me off to the war with the British,
And then the... (Read full poem)
20. Phoenix Lyrics - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1957.
Read 1423 times on American Poems.
I
If nature is life, nature is death:
It is winter as it is spring:
Confusion is variety, variety
And confusion in everything
Make experience the true conclusion
Of all desire and opulence,
All satisfaction and poverty.
II
When a hundred years... (Read full poem)
21. Me Imperturbe. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2327 times on American Poems.
ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less... (Read full poem)
22. Who Bides His Time - written by James Whitcomb Riley
Read 854 times on American Poems.
Who bides his time, and day by day
Faces defeat full patiently,
And lifts a mirthful roundelay,
However poor his fortunes be,--
He will not fail in any qualm
Of poverty -- the paltry dime
It will grow golden in his palm,
Who bides his... (Read full poem)
23. The Proud Poet - written by Joyce Kilmer
From Main Street and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 2754 times on American Poems.
(For Shaemas O Sheel)
One winter night a Devil came and sat upon my bed,
His eyes were full of laughter for his heart was full of crime.
"Why don't you take up fancy work, or embroidery?" he said,
"For a needle is as manly a tool as a pen that... (Read full poem)
24. The Hangman's Great Hands - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 841 times on American Poems.
And all that is this day. . .
The boy with cap slung over what had been a face. ..
Somehow the cop will sleep tonight, will make love to his
wife...
Anger won't help. I was born angry. Angry that my father was
being burnt alive in the... (Read full poem)
25. Elizabeth Childers - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 625 times on American Poems.
Dust of my dust,
And dust with my dust,
O, child who died as you entered the world,
Dead with my death!
Not knowing breath, though you tried so hard,
With a heart that beat when you lived with me,
And stopped when you left me for Life.... (Read full poem)
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