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Poems about success celebrate the fulfillment of aspirations, the realization of goals, and the satisfaction of achievement. These verses often portray the journey toward success, encompassing perseverance, determination, and overcoming obstacles.
They may highlight the joy of reaching milestones and the accomplishment accompanying hard-earned victories. Through evocative language, these poems inspire ambition and a belief in one’s capabilities, encouraging readers to pursue their dreams passionately.
Poems about success also reflect on the definition of true success, reminding us that it can encompass more than material achievements, embracing personal growth and fulfilling one’s potential.
‘No Man Without Money’ by Robert Herrick is a short poem that lucidly voices the belief that people only succeed because of chance and circumstance.
No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim,
If favour or occasion help not him.
‘Home Body’ reminds us that everything we need for fulfilment already resides within us. Instead of seeking validation or happiness externally, the poem encourages us to look inward.
i dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything i need
already exists in me
‘The Famous Writer’ by Daniel Galef is a compelling poem about the effects of fame. The speaker is aware that fame is destructive but wants to experience it for himself.
You’ll think yourself a marble bust. You’re slate,
(...)
Remakes it as their own so they can lunge
‘The Professor’ presents an aging teacher speaking with pride and habit about his family, health, and changing times, offering a glimpse into post-independence Indian life and identity.
Remember me? I am Professor Sheth.
Once I taught you geography. Now
I am retired, though my health is good. My wife died some years back.
By God's grace, all my children
‘Ovation Seeker’ by Gabriel Okara is a poem that looks at the fleeting nature of other’s approval and how it doesn’t lead to worthwhile validation.
With drums beating and cymbals crashing
He went strutting, smiling from ear to ear,
He who seeks ovation, plaudits, like seeker of gold!
He went strutting and smiling with his absent ovation
‘The Excursion’ by William Wordsworth reflects on industrialization’s impact, highlighting progress and environmental concerns within a changing landscape.
Meanwhile, at social Industry's command
How quick, how vast an increase. From the germ
Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced
Here a huge town, continuous and compact
‘God Save the Flag’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes is a simple, optimistic, and passionate poem in which the speaker emphatically delivers his opinion on the United States.
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,
Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,
Burning with star-fires, but never consuming,
Flash its broad ribbons of lily and rose.
’90 North’ by Randall Jarrell is concerned with dreams, aging, and the truth of success. The poet’s speaker realizes that success means nothing and that after achieving everything he wanted, his life is worthless.
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides
I sailed all night—till at last, with my black beard,
My furs and my dogs, I stood at the northern pole.
‘A Song of Success’ charts life’s journey from youthful ambition to the mature realization that true success is fleeting.
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave.
Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight.
All that was best in us gladly we gave,
Sprang from the rally, and leapt for the height.
‘Disappointed’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar is an inspirational poem in which Dunbar depicts an old man working hard in the last years of his life and losing everything he strove for.
An old man planted and dug and tended,
Toiling in joy from dew to dew;
The sun was kind, and the rain befriended;
Fine grew his orchard and fair to view.
‘Equipment’ by Edgar Guest contains a speaker’s assertion that one has everything they need from birth to find success in life.
Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You've all that the greatest of men have had,
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise.
‘Queenhood’ by Simon Armitage was written to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. It celebrates the Queen’s lifetime of service and describes the unique features of her life.
An old-fashioned word, coined in a bygone world.
It is a taking hold and a letting go,
girlhood left behind like a favourite toy,
irreversible step over invisible brink.
‘Success is counted sweetest’ by Emily Dickinson is a thoughtful poem about success. It emphasizes the fact that one must lose something in order to truly appreciate it.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
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