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Famous Based On Poems by Famous Poets

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by Shakur, Tupac
...content when I am dropped
But 2morrow I c change
a chance 2 build a new
Built on spirit intent of Heart
and ideals
based on truth
and tomorrow I wake with second wind
and strong because of pride
2 know I fought with all my heart 2 keep my
dream alive...Read more of this...



by Lehman, David
...nches on the rue Auguste Comte
too much sociology not enough Garcia Lorca
more colons and dashes fewer commas
less love based on narrow self-interest
more lust based on a feast of kisses
too many novels too few poems
too many poets not enough poetry...Read more of this...

by Jeffers, Robinson
...eaded.


He has joy, but Joy is a trick in the air; and 
 pleasure, but pleasure is contemptible;
And peace; and is based on solider than pain.
He has broken boundaries a little and that will 
estrange him; he is monstrous, but not
To the measure of the God.... But I having told 
 you--
However I suppose that few in the world have 
 energy to hear effectively-
Have paid my birth-dues; am quits with the 
 people....Read more of this...

by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
...m;
this conclusion is by James Gillman,
who cared for Coleridge during the
latter years. He wrote the following
based on what the poet would outline
for his friends.)

THE CONCLUSION TO PART II

A little child, a limber elf,
Singing, dancing to itself,
A fairy thing with red round cheeks,
That always finds, and never seeks,
Makes such a vision to the sight
As fills a father's eyes with light;
And pleasures flow in so thick and fast
Upon his heart, that...Read more of this...

by Sassoon, Siegfried
...iped-out impossible Attack. 
‘Impressions? Yes, most vivid! I am writing 
A little book called Europe on the Rack, 
Based on notes made while witnessing the fighting. 
I hope I’ve caught the feeling of “the Line”,
And the amazing spirit of the troops. 
By Jove, those flying-chaps of ours are fine! 
I watched one daring beggar looping loops, 
Soaring and diving like some bird of prey. 
And through it all I felt that splendour shine
Which makes us win.’
The ...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...ht, emotion, deed, left out;)
The whole, or large or small, summ’d, added up, In its Eidólon. 
 The old, old urge; 
Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo! newer, higher pinnacles; 
From Science and the Modern still impell’d, The old, old urge, Eidólons. 
 The present, now and here,
America’s busy, teeming, intricate whirl, 
Of aggregate and segregate, for only thence releasing, To-day’s Eidólons. 
 These, with the past, 
Of vanish’d lands—of all the reigns of kings a...Read more of this...

by Khayyam, Omar
...If this world's things were only based on show, oh!
then each day would be a feast. Oh! were it not for
these vain threats, each could attain below the aim of his
desires, without a fear.
377...Read more of this...

by Walcott, Derek
...aven and Hell.
But I have forgotten our journey's origins,
mused Koenig, and our purpose. He knew it was noble,
based on some phrase, forgotten, from the Bible,
but he felt bodiless, like a man stumbling from
the pages of a novel, not a forest,
written a hundred years ago. He stroked his uniform,
clogged with the hooked burrs that had tried
to pull him, like the other drowning hands whom
his panic abandoned. The others had died,
like real men, by death. I,...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...shoulders
And wisdom from the prairies to cry only softly at
 the ashes of my mysteries."

 II. USED UP

 Lines based on certain regrets that come with rumination
 upon the painted faces of women on
 North Clark Street, Chicago

 Roses,
 Red roses,
 Crushed
In the rain and wind
Like mouths of women
Beaten by the fists of
Men using them.
 O little roses
 And broken leaves
 And petal wisps:
You that so flung your crimson
 To the sun
Only yesterday.

 III. HO...Read more of this...

by Lehman, David
...epistemological quandary: what I consider
valuable, would they? Who are they, anyway? I'd answer that
with speculations based on newspaper accounts if I were
Donald E. Westlake, whose novels I'm hooked on, but
this first cigarette after twenty-four hours
of abstinence tastes so good it makes me want
to include it in my catalogue of pleasures
designed to hide the ugliness or sweep it away
the way the violent overflow of rain over cliffs
cleans the sewers and drains of Itha...Read more of this...

by Berry, Wendell
...earthward out of the air. I rest in peace
in you, when I arrive at last.

V.

Our bond is no little economy based on the exchange
of my love and work for yours, so much for so much
of an expendable fund. We don't know what its limits are--
that puts us in the dark. We are more together
than we know, how else could we keep on discovering
we are more together than we thought?
You are the known way leading always to the unknown,
and you are the known place to...Read more of this...

by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...around me,
And the hand, the ravishing companion
Of thy sweet caresses, lies unmoving.
Were my thoughts of thee but based on error,
Were the love I bear thee self-deception,
I must now have found it out, since Amor
Is, without his bandage, placed beside me."

Long I sat thus, full of heartfelt pleasure
At my love, and at her matchless merit;
She had so delighted me while slumbering,
That I could not venture to awake her.

Then I on the little table near her
Softly...Read more of this...

by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...ven beneath whose translucent floor
The tremulous stars sparkled unfathomably;
And around which the solid vapours hoar,
Based on the level waters, to the sky
Lifted their dreadful crags, and, like a shore
Of wintry mountains, inaccessibly
Hemmed-in with rifts and precipices grey,
And hanging crags, many a cove and bay.

And, whilst the outer lake beneath the lash
Of the wind's scourge foamed like a wounded thing
And the incessant hail with stony clash
Ploughed up the wate...Read more of this...

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