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Famous Apportion Poems by Famous Poets

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...pon the pestilential blast
Her clamors swell.

For all to whom the power's given
To sway or to compel,
Among themselves apportion Heaven
And give her Hell....Read more of this...
by Bierce, Ambrose



...hope I may be yours.

   I saw you-need more be said?
To broadcast a fire,
telling the cause suffices--
no need to apportion blame for the effect.

   Seeing you so exalted
does not prevent my daring;
no god is ever secure
against the lofty flight of human thought.

    There are women more deserving,
yet in distance from heaven
the humblest of valleys
seems no farther than the highest peak.

   In sum, I must admit
to the crime of adoring you;
should you w...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor
...hope I may be yours.

   I saw you-need more be said?
To broadcast a fire,
telling the cause suffices--
no need to apportion blame for the effect.

   Seeing you so exalted
does not prevent my daring;
no god is ever secure
against the lofty flight of human thought.

    There are women more deserving,
yet in distance from heaven
the humblest of valleys
seems no farther than the highest peak.

   In sum, I must admit
to the crime of adoring you;
should you w...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor

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