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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUCCESS Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACHIEVEMENT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Achievement must now be weighed Last Line: Of many bereavements. Subject(s): Heroism; Success; Heroes; Heroines ADORATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have come from the berg string quartet opus 3 Last Line: Do it, do it, do it in the perforated gleam of the dollhouse window. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Success AFTER PUBLICATION OF 'UNDER THE VOLCANO', by MALCOLM LOWRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success is like some horrible diaster Last Line: And had been left in darkness forever to founder and fail Subject(s): Fame; Novels And Novelists; Success ALLATOONA EVENING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half a mile through a briar scrub thickening to woods Last Line: These three stars soaking up twilight. Subject(s): Ambition; Emptiness; Happiness; Success; Joy; Delight ARTHUR'S PARTY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came with some trepidation to your vernissage Last Line: Fingered you young, as we played in our garage. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Success; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism ASPIRATION, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can strike the minor chord and sing Last Line: In heaven's eternal rose. Subject(s): Desire; Success; Wishes AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, by STEVEN MONTE Poem Source First Line: Because the pathetic aspire Last Line: Wrenching chaos out of order Subject(s): Success BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BALLAD OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the toilers from whom god barred Last Line: "god, give us another chance!" Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Unsuccessful Subject(s): Failure; God; Labor & Laborers; Life; Religion; Sin; Soul; Success; Work; Workers; Theology CEZANNE'S SUCCESS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls he followed down the street, the heartbreaks Last Line: Stopped calling. Harsh wind at night , no loving hands Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Success CLUTTER, by JAMES NEYLON Poem Source First Line: It starts with the first Last Line: Because there are those who know %things and those who wonder Subject(s): Activity; Success DAYS OF SUCCESS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The sun shines with a brighter beam, Last Line: "the club ""is going good!" Subject(s): Baseball; Happiness; Sports; Success; Joy; Delight EPILOGUE TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA BY THE SPANIARDS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success, which can no more than beauty last Last Line: He had pleas'd better, had he lov'd you less. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 2 Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Success; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life FAILURE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are much bound to them that do succeed Last Line: Its power is in the look which costs him all Subject(s): Failure; Success FANNY: 141, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And for 'resources,' both of purse and head Last Line: And lavished guineas like a prince of wales Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Integrity; Knowledge; Success FANNY: 148, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when these, the lord burleighs of the minute Last Line: Blights everything it touches, fruit and flower Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Success; Wisdom FINITE TO FAIL, BUT INFINITE TO VENTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nodding in navies nevermore Subject(s): Success; Perseverance GAYHEART, A STORY OF DEFEAT, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gayheart came in june, I saw his heels Last Line: But I behold him in the city's eyes. Subject(s): Boarding Houses; Poetry & Poets; Success; City & Town Life HINDRANCES, by J. E. STRADER Poem Text First Line: If some can win, why can not I Last Line: "and fight off ""yawn"" and ""wait-a-while." Subject(s): Success HOMEMADE VOODOO, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: I worshipped you. I licked the black from shadows Last Line: Then quoted me wilde, nothing succeeds like excess Subject(s): Success; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) HONORS: 1. A SCHOLAR IS MUSING ON HIS WANT OF SUCCESS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To strive -- and fail. Yes, I did strive and fail Last Line: Twin soul, I will! I will! Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars; Success IN A GARRET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deep twilight / the rain taps upon the skylight Last Line: Hath but now disclosed the shadowy flood of death. Subject(s): Grief; Success; Writing & Writers; Sorrow; Sadness KINDLY UNHITCH THAT STAR, BUDDY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly suppose I know anybody wouldn't rather be a success than a failure Last Line: Because when people start hitching their wagons to a star, %that's the way they are Subject(s): Success LEGEND OF SUCCESS, THE SALESMAN'S STORY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But each one to his taste, I always say Subject(s): Success LINES IN PRAISE OF MR J. GRAHAM HENDERSON HAWICK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to mr j. Graham henderson, who is a good man Last Line: Will gain customers by it, the suit is so complete. Subject(s): Praise; Success ON HIS OWN CAREER, by CLEMENT RICHARD ATTLEE Poem Source First Line: Few thought he was even a starter Last Line: An earl and a knight of the garter Subject(s): Politics; Success ONCE ON A TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, no matter when Last Line: Alone in being great. Subject(s): Contentment; Poetry & Poets; Success PARAPHRASE; FAILURE AND SUCCESS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can tell how hard it is to climb Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Soul; Success; Self-esteem; Self-respect PETER GREY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honest little peter grey Last Line: To find him sitting snug at the top. Subject(s): Work; Success POET WHO HAS IT MADE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bard in mauve mercedes, off to ski Last Line: Poet for sale sign overprinted sold? Variant Title(s): Poet Who Has It Made, From Juvenal I, 79 Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Success QUESTION AND ANSWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has availed Subject(s): Success; Failure SONG, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: If I have won, then victory is bitter Last Line: So thou hast triumphed in defeat. Subject(s): Success; Victory SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 142, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What I try, I conquer Last Line: Which I did not gain Subject(s): Success STEPPING DOWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Going out of the big league Last Line: I am not yet thirty-three! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success SUCCES SECRET, by ELAINE M. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: While you are a learner Last Line: Work on and keep cool. Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Success is speaking words of praise Last Line: "in all of life and nothing less, / we find the thing we call sucess" Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you know? / through all the call and clamor, did you know it would Last Line: Never mend it. Christ! I know it. And I know you knew it too! Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sharpen your claws, pussy-cat Last Line: Tell me — why must she quarrel? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success is counted sweetest / by those who never succeed Last Line: Break, agonized and clear. Subject(s): Failure; Success SUCCESS, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink the foaming chalice Last Line: Who lived and died for men. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Memory; Nations; Success SUCCESS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain Last Line: The bold, significant, successful man Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the coward who quits to misfortune Last Line: And won—'twixt the flag and the wire! Subject(s): Success; Victory SUCCESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Before god's footstool to confess Last Line: I failed,' he cried. The master said, %'thou didst thy best- that is success' Subject(s): Success SUCCESS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Success is in thinking and not in mere wealth Last Line: He measures in money his thought of success. Subject(s): Money; Success; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes SUCCESS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If he succeeds whose coffers, heaped with gold Last Line: This is success, and this my prayer shall be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Success SUCCESS (2), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's doing your job the best you can Last Line: It's doing your noblest -- that's success! Variant Title(s): The Recipe;that's Success! Subject(s): Success SUCCESS ALONE SEEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few know of life's beginnings - men behold Last Line: Men would behold its threshold, and despair. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Success SUCCESS IN THE TOUCHES OF YOUR HAND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Singleness like garments / clinging in the wind Subject(s): Success SUCCESS STORIES, by RICHARD COLE Poem Source First Line: I'm still addicted to the 'new york times' Last Line: Rambling down into the earth again, toward %manhattan, wealth, and our steady jobs Subject(s): Advertising; New York City; Success THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 91. LOST ON BOTH SIDES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when two men have loved a woman well Last Line: Its bye-streets, knocking at the dusty inns. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Hope; Success; Optimism THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 95. THE VASE OF LIFE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the vase of life at your slow pace Last Line: Stands empty till his ashes fall in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Failure; Life; Success THE OLD-TIMER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Show me a catcher like ewing-- Last Line: "about ""the advance of the game""!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 108, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mister shih had two sons Last Line: Like buckteeth that never meet Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fathers & Sons; Success THE REAL SUCCESSES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think that the failures are many Last Line: There lives, rich or poor, a success. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Success THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 3. ACHIEVEMENT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have felled the forest and pierced the hill Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Success; Liberty; Theology THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: As wretches in a storm (expecting day) Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Business; Fantasy; Shoes; Success; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TO A SUCCESSFUL PERSON, by MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Poem Text First Line: So many little things I love Last Line: One, upon a tree. Subject(s): Success UNNOTICED, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: You drift from youth into manhood Last Line: Silent dust, for those in workshops who are bending their backs Subject(s): Children; Parents; Success; Writing And Writers WAY WE MAKE SENSE, by DAWN KARIMA PETTIGREW Poem Source First Line: White boys sleep through your screaming Last Line: And give you our lives as promises Subject(s): Success WHAT IS SUCCESS?, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are symbols; and we find Last Line: Ere half its race be run. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Success WHEN YOU THOUGHT ME POOR, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Poverty; Success WINNERS AND LOSERS, by BOYCE HOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men born in little towns Last Line: You get the same total? Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Human Behavior; Prudence; Success; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caution |
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