Best poems about — Storgy
Success.
Two poems, ranked.
2 of the finest public-domain poems about success, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
The leading three
01
Success is counted sweetest
Emily Dickinson · 1864
“This poem suggests that those who truly grasp the concept of success are often the ones who have never experienced it. Dickinson employs the image of a dying so…”
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02
The Ruined Maid
Thomas Hardy
“Two women run into each other in the city: one is still a poor farm girl, the other has clearly come up in the world — nice clothes, soft hands, polished speech…”
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