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Famous Back Against The Wall Poems by Famous Poets

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...AGAINST THE GRAIN



“Oxford be silent, I this truth must write

Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite.”

 - William Dawson of Hackney, Nov.7th 1704



“The repressed becomes the poem”

 Louise Bogan





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Well it’s Friday the thirteenth

So I’d better begin with luck

As I prepare for a journey to

The north, the place where I began

And I was luc...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...me in my life
 by how far away the sky is,
 how blue
 and how wide.
Then I respectfully sat down on the earth.
I leaned back against the wall.
For a moment no trap to fall into,
no struggle, no freedom, no wife.
Only earth, sun, and me...
I am happy....Read more of this...
by Hikmet, Nazim
...God had called us, and we came;
Our loved Earth to ashes left;
Heaven was a neighbor's house,
Open to us, bereft.

Gay the lights of Heaven showed,
And 'twas God who walked ahead;
Yet I wept along the road,
Wanting my own house instead.

Wept unseen, unheeded cried,
"All you things my eyes have kissed,
Fare you well! We meet no more,
Lovely, lovely tattere...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna
...viler coolie-man 
And wrath within the courts of war 
Brews on against Japan!" 

"Must Avalon, with hope forlorn, 
Her back against the wall,
Have lived her brilliant life in vain
While ruder tribes take all?
Must Arthur stand with Asian Celts,
A ghost with spear and crown,
Behind the great Pendragon flag
And be again cut down?

"Tho Europe's self shall move against 
High Jimmu Tenno's throne 
The Forty-seven Ronin Men 
Will not be found alone.
For Percival and Bedivere 
And...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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