Famous Appalls Poems by Famous Poets

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London

...ar.
In every voice; in every ban.
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackening Church appalls.
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse...Read more of this...
by Blake, William


MFingal - Canto II

...musketeers;
Nor scapes, as if you'd gain'd supplies,
From Beelzebub's whole host of flies.
No bug these warlike hearts appalls;
They better know the sound of balls.
I hear the din of battle bray;
The trump of horror marks its way.
I see afar the sack of cities,
The gallows strung with Whig-committees;
Your moderators triced, like vermin,
And gate-posts graced with heads of chairmen;
Your Congress for wave-off'rings hanging,
And ladders throng'd with priests haranguing.
What ...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

No Autumns intercepting Chill

...No Autumn's intercepting Chill
Appalls this Tropic Breast --
But African Exuberance
And Asiatic rest....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Ode to Envy

...orious height, 
Bends the fair front of Virtue low, 
And meanly pilfers every pure delight. 
Thy hollow voice the sense appalls, 
Thy vigilance the mind enthralls; 
Rest hast thou none,­by night, by day, 
Thy jealous ardour seeks for prey­
Nought can restrain thy swift career; 
Thy smile derides the suff'rer's wrongs; 
Thy tongue the sland'rers tale prolongs; 
Thy thirst imbibes the victim's tear; 
Thy breast recoils from friendship's flame; 
Sick'ning thou hear'st the trump ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Sonnet LXXXII

.../SPAN>And vengeance of past loss on us pursue:While this new grief disheartens and appalls,Replace not in its sheath your honour'd sword,But, boldly following where your fortune calls,E'en to its goal be glory's path explored,Which fame and honour to the world may giveThat e'en for centuries after death will live. Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


The Arrival of the Bee Box

...
Minute and shrunk for export, 
Black on black, angrily clambering. 

How can I let them out? 
It is the noise that appalls me most of all, 
The unintelligible syllables. 
It is like a Roman mob, 
Small, taken one by one, but my god, together! 

I lay my ear to furious Latin. 
I am not a Caesar. 
I have simply ordered a box of maniacs. 
They can be sent back. 
They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner. 

I wonder how hungry they are. 
I wonder if ...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

The Grey Monk

...e should prove
The bane of all that on Earth I lov'd.

My Brother starv'd between two walls,
His Children's cry my soul appalls;
I mock'd at the rack and griding chain,
My bent body mocks their torturing pain.

Thy father drew his sword in the North,
With his thousands strong he marched forth;
Thy Brother has arm'd himself in steel
To avenge the wrongs thy Children feel.

But vain the Sword and vain the Bow,
They never can work War's overthrow.
The Hermit's prayer and the Wid...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Grey Monk (Excerpts)

...e should prove
The bane of all that on Earth I lov'd.

My Brother starv'd between two walls,
His Children's cry my soul appalls;
I mock'd at the rack and griding chain,
My bent body mocks their torturing pain.

Thy father drew his sword in the North,
With his thousands strong he marched forth;
Thy Brother has arm'd himself in steel
To avenge the wrongs thy Children feel.

But vain the Sword and vain the Bow,
They never can work War's overthrow.
The Hermit's prayer and the Wid...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Love a Life can show Below

...--
'Tis this enamors in the East --
And tints the Transit in the West
With harrowing Iodine --

'Tis this -- invites -- appalls -- endows --
Flits -- glimmers -- proves -- dissolves --
Returns -- suggests -- convicts -- enchants --
Then -- flings in Paradise --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

The Town Down by the River

...d 
If the Town should fail to need you.

"And are ravens there to feed you 
In the Town down the River, 
Where the gift appalls the giver 
And youth hardens day by day? 
O you brave and you unshaken, 
Are you truly on your way? 
And are sirens in the River, 
That you come so far to-day?"

"You are old and we have listened," 
Said the voice of one who halted; 
"You are sage and self-exalted, 
But your way is not our way. 
You that cannot aid us 
Give us words to eat. 
Be assur...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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