Best Famous Mot Poems

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Written by Robert William Service | Marie Antoinette They told to Marie Antoinette: "The beggers at your gate Have eyes too sad for tears to wet, And for your pity wait. " But Marie only laughed and said: "My heart they will not ache: If people starve for want of bread Let them eat cake. " The Court re-echoed her bon mot; It rang around the land, Till masses wakened from their woe With scyth and pick in hand. It took a careless, callous phrase To rouse the folk forlorn: A million roared the Marseillaise: Freedom was born. And so to Marie Antoinette Let's pay a tribute due; Humanity owes her a debt, (Ironical, it's true). She sparked world revolution red, And as with glee they bore Upon a pike her lovely head --Her curls dripped gore.

Written by Dimitris P Kraniotis | Cendre La cheminée voulait mettre un point, à la proposition que le chemin de mes rêves a collée sur le mot bonheur, avec des flammes du bois mouille que j’ai ramasse de mon âme et que j’avais osé de le transformer en cendre.

Written by Mary Darby Robinson | Lines on Hearing it Declared that No Women Were So Handsome as the English BEAUTY, the attribute of Heaven! In various forms to mortals given, With magic skill enslaves mankind, As sportive fancy sways the mind. Search the wide world, go where you will, VARIETY pursues you still; Capricious Nature knows no bound, Her unexhausted gifts are found In ev'ry clime, in ev'ry face, Each has its own peculiar grace. To GALLIA's frolic scenes repair, There reigns the tyny DEBONAIRE; The mincing step­the slender waist, The lip with bright vermilion grac'd: The short pert nose­the pearly teeth, With the small dimpled chin beneath,­ The social converse, gay and free, The smart BON-MOT and REPARTEE. ITALIA boasts the melting fair, The pointed step, the haughty air, Th' empassion'd tone, the languid eye, The song of thrilling harmony; Insidious LOVE conceal'd in smiles That charms­and as it charms beguiles. View GRECIAN MAIDS, whose finish'd forms The wond'ring sculptor's fancy warms! There let thy ravish'd eye behold The softest gems of Nature's mould; Each charm, that REYNOLDS learnt to trace, From SHERIDAN's bewitching face. Imperious TURKEY's pride is seen In Beauty's rich luxuriant mien; The dark and sparkling orbs that glow Beneath a polish'd front of snow: The auburn curl that zephyr blows About the cheek of brightest rose: The shorten'd zone, the swelling breast, With costly gems profusely drest; Reclin'd in softly-waving bow'rs, On painted beds of fragrant flow'rs; Where od'rous canopies dispense ARABIA's spices to the sense; Where listless indolence and ease, Proclaim the sov'reign wish, to please. 'Tis thus, capricious FANCY shows How far her frolic empire goes ! On ASIA's sands, on ALPINE snow, We trace her steps where'er we go; The BRITISH Maid with timid grace; The tawny INDIAN 's varnish'd face; The jetty AFRICAN; the fair Nurs'd by EUROPA's softer air; With various charms delight the mind, For FANCY governs ALL MANKIND.