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Famous Bestows Poems by Famous Poets

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by Dickinson, Emily
...dth --
Yet ampler than the Sun --
And all the Seas He populates
And Lands He looks upon

To Him who on its small Repose
Bestows a single Friend --
Circumference without Relief --
Or Estimate -- or End --...Read More



by Pope, Alexander
...roper bliss depends on what we blame.
Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree
Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.
Submit.--In this, or any other sphere,
Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear:
Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r,
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony, not understood;
All partial evil, universal good:
And, spite ...Read More

by Whitman, Walt
...e grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,

Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad, 
He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less, 
He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key,
He is the equalizer of his age and land, 
He supplies what wants supplying—he checks what wants checking, 
In peace, out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous
 towns,
 encouraging agriculture, ar...Read More

by Byron, George (Lord)
...check; 
Here moments menace — there are years of wreck! 
But hence ye thoughts that rise in Horror's shape! 
This hour bestows, or ever bars escape. 
Few words remain of mine my tale to close: 
Of thine but one to waft us from our foes; 
Yea — foes — to me will Giaffir's hate decline? 
And is not Osman, who would part us, thine? 

XXI. 

"His head and faith from doubt and death 
Return'd in time my guard to save; 
Few heard, none told, that o'er the wave 
From isle t...Read More

by Gregory, Rg
...o likely sun has shone
a darkness chokes it (just suppose)

the die though's cast - a marathon
of hopes endeavours then bestows
dawn's right to spill its colours on
 what blindly grows


2. 
squeaking

there are so few words left now to grow
green on - my vocabulary's stumped
for a hard-edged phrase to let you know
 my truth's not been gazumped

love itself of course is blandly thumped
each time it suits you to imagine no
fruits are guilty for their being scrumped

if you...Read More



by Jonson, Ben
...          O, so divine a creature, Who could be false to?  chiefly, when he knows                  How only she bestows The wealthy treasure of her love on him ;                  Making his fortune swim In the full flood of her admired perfection ?                  What savage, brute affection, Would not be fearful to offend a dame                 To virtuous moods inclined That knows the weight of guilt ; he will refrain                  F...Read More

by Pope, Alexander
...per bliss depends on what we blame. 
Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree 
Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. 
Submit -- In this, or any other sphere, 
Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: 
Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, 
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. 
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; 
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; 
All Discord, Harmony, not understood; 
All partial Evil, universal Good: 
And, ...Read More

by Byron, George (Lord)
...d in vain, for in their memory yet 
His mind would half exult and half regret: 
With more capacity for love than earth 
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, 
His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, 
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth; 
With thought of years in phantom chase misspent, 
And wasted powers for better purpose lent; 
And fiery passions that had pour'd their wrath 
In hurried desolation o'er his path, 
And left the better feelings all at strif...Read More

by Arnold, Matthew
...our pleasures, then depart
When the duped soul, self-master'd, claims its meed;
When, on the strenuous just man, Heaven bestows,
Crown of his struggling life, an unjust close!

'Seems it so light a thing, then, austere Powers,
To spurn man's common lure, life's pleasant things?
Seems there no joy in dances crown'd with flowers,
Love, free to range, and regal banquetings?
Bend ye on these, indeed, an unmoved eye,
Not Gods but ghosts, in frozen apathy?

'Or is it that some Forc...Read More

by Whitman, Walt
...ed.

4
Every existence has its idiom—everything has an idiom and tongue; 
He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and
 any
 man
 translates himself also; 
One part does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they
 join. 

He says indifferently and alike, How are you, friend? to the President at his
 levee, 
And he says, Good-day, my brother! to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
And both understand him,...Read More

by Watts, Isaac
...reaper ne'er shall fill his hands,
Nor binder fold the sheaves.

It springs and withers on the place;
No traveller bestows
A word of blessing on the grass,
Nor minds it as he goes.]...Read More

by Byron, George (Lord)
...check; 
Here moments menace — there are years of wreck! 
But hence ye thoughts that rise in Horror's shape! 
This hour bestows, or ever bars escape. 
Few words remain of mine my tale to close: 
Of thine but one to waft us from our foes; 
Yea — foes — to me will Giaffir's hate decline? 
And is not Osman, who would part us, thine? 

XXI. 

"His head and faith from doubt and death 
Return'd in time my guard to save; 
Few heard, none told, that o'er the wave 
From isle t...Read More

by Byron, George (Lord)
...d share the dear caress;
But love itself could never pant
For all that beauty sighs to grant
With half the fervour hate bestows
Upon the last embrace of foes,
When grappling in the fight they fold
Those arms that ne'er shall lose their hold:
Friends meet to part; love laughs at faith;
True foes, once met, are joined till death!


With sabre shivered to the hilt,
Yet dripping with the blood he spilt;
Yet strained within the severed hand
Which quivers round that faithless brand...Read More

by Bridges, Robert Seymour
...ds to its loss a thousand lesser woes:
So to the memory of the gift that graced
Her hand, her graceless hand more grace bestows. 

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In this neglected, ruin'd edifice
Of works unperfected and broken schemes,
Where is the promise of my early dreams,
The smile of beauty and the pearl of price?
No charm is left now that could once entice
Wind-wavering fortune from her golden streams,
And full in flight decrepit purpose seems,
Trailing the banner of his old device. 
With...Read More

by Bronte, Charlotte
...testing fires unhurt ! 
Hurling hell's strongest bulwarks down, 
Even when the last pang thrills my breast, 
When Death bestows the Martyr's crown, 
And calls me into Jesus' rest. 
Then for my ultimate reward­ 
Then for the world-rejoicing word­ 
The voice from Father­Spirit­Son: 
" Servant of God, well hast thou done !"...Read More

by Johnson, Samuel
...flatter, once again attend,
162 Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.

163 Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows
164 The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes;
165 See when the vulgar 'scape, despis'd or aw'd,
166 Rebellion's vengeful talons seize on Laud.
167 From meaner minds, tho' smaller fines content
168 The plunder'd palace or sequester'd rent;
169 Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock,
170 And fatal Learning leads him to the block:
171 Arou...Read More

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...nacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.)
Bestows one final patronising kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit . . .
 She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her departed lover; 
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over."
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She s...Read More

by Clare, John
...e coming spring's already come.

I never want the Christmas rose
 To come before its time;
The seasons, each as God bestows,
 Are simple and sublime.
I love to see the snowstorm hing;
 'Tis but the winter garb of spring.

I never want the grass to bloom:
 The snowstorm's best in white.
I love to see the tempest come
 And love its piercing light.
The dazzled eyes that love to cling
 O'er snow-white meadows sees the spring.

I love the snow, the crumplin...Read More

by Trumbull, John
...ce plays,
Each coxcomb fluttering round its blaze,
Whose spell enchants the wits of beaux,
The only charms, that heaven bestows.
Within the mind a glory lies,
O'erlook'd and dim to vulgar eyes;
Immortal charms, the source of love,
Which time and lengthen'd years improve,
Which beam, with still increasing power,
Serene to life's declining hour;
Then rise, released from earthly cares,
To heaven, and shine above the stars.


Thus might I still these thoughts pursue,
The ...Read More

by Marvell, Andrew
...Vitrifi'd.

'Tis She that to these Gardens gave
That wondrous Beauty which they have;
She streightness on the Woods bestows;
To Her the Meadow sweetness owes;
Nothing could make the River be
So Chrystal-pure but only She;
She yet more Pure, Sweet, Streight, and Fair,
Then Gardens, Woods, Meads, Rivers are.

Therefore what first She on them spent,
They gratefully again present.
The Meadow Carpets where to tread;
The Garden Flow'rs to Crown Her Head;
And for a Glass...Read More

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