Famous Alfonso Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Masters, Edgar Lee
...They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon,"
As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst
Of knowing about the stars.
They jeered when I spoke of the lunar mountains,
And the thrilling heat and cold,
And the ebon valleys by silver peaks,
And Spica quadrillions of miles away,
And the littleness of man.
But now that my grave is honored, friends,
Let it n...Read more of this...
by
McKay, Claude
...Alfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad
Of subtly-changing and surprising parts;
His moods are storms that frighten and make glad,
His eyes were made to capture women's hearts.
Down in the glory-hole Alfonso sings
An olden song of wine and clinking glasses
And riotous rakes; magnificently flings
Gay kisses to imaginary lasses.
Alfonso's voice...Read more of this...
by
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...more)
Could crowd career with conquest while there went
Those years and years by of world without event
That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door....Read more of this...
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...e)
Could crowd career with conquest while there went
Those years and years by of world without event
That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door....Read more of this...
by
Byron, George (Lord)
...or fall.
I settle all these things by intuition,
Times present, past, to come, heaven, hell, and all,
Like King Alfonso(2). When I thus see double,
I save the Deity some worlds of trouble.'
CII
He ceased, and drew forth an MS.; and no
Persuasion on the part of devils, saints,
Or angels, now could stop the torrent; so
He read the first three lines of the contents;
But at the fourth, the whole spiritual show
Had vanish'd, with variety of scents,
A...Read more of this...
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