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Famous Blench Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...he holy power of self-sacrifice; 
For the memory of your mother's kiss 
Valiantly stand to the breach again. 
Comrades, blench not now from the strife, 
Quit you like men!" 

Oh, we rushed to meet at our captain's side 
Death as a bride! 
All our brave striplings bravely fell. 
I, less fortunate, slowly came 
Back from that din of shot and yell 
Slowly and gaspingly, to know 
A harder fate reserved for me 
Than that brief, splendid agony. 
Through many a bitter pang and throe...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud



...h sworn by one, hath bound us both. 
Yes, fondly, wisely hast thou done; 
That vow hath saved more heads than one: 
But blench not thou — thy simplest tress 
Claims more from me than tenderness; 
I would not wrong the slenderest hair 
That clusters round thy forehead fair, 
For all the treasures buried far 
Within the caves of Istakar. [19] 
This morning clouds upon me lower'd, 
Reproaches on my head were shower'd, 
And Giaffir almost call'd me coward! 
Now I have motive to b...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)
...man among the dead,
Has won the gold his cars of battle bring.'

'But if your master comes home triumphing
Why must you blench and shake from foot to crown?'

Thereon he shook the more and cast him down
Upon the web-heaped floor, and cried his word:
'With him is one sweet-throated like a bird.'

'You dare me to my face,' and thereupon
She smote with raddled fist, and where her son
Herded the cattle came with stumbling feet,
And cried with angry voice, 'It is not meet
To ide l...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler
...all not see again
Until the Judgment Day.

Ah, could I, could I backward turn
The pages of that Book,
How often would I blench and burn!
How often loathe to look!
What pages would be meanly scrolled;
What smeared as if with mud;
A few, maybe, might gleam like gold,
Some scarlet seem as blood.

O Record grave, God guide my hand
And make me worthy be,
Since what I write to-day shall stand
To all eternity;
Aye, teach me, Lord of Life, I pray,
As I salute the sun,
To bear myself ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...the draught of life, 
Go sparks of myriad people, filling
The night with strife.

Yet they never change the darkness
Or blench it with noise; 
Alone on the perfect silence 
The stars are buoys....Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.



...wild and many-weaponed throng 
Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. 

Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof, 25 
And blench not at thy chosen lot, 
The timid good may stand aloof, 
The sage may frown¡ªyet faint thou not. 

Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, 
The foul and hissing bolt of scorn; 30 
For with thy side shall dwell, at last, 
The victory of endurance born. 

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; 
The eternal years of God are hers; 
But Error, w...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen
...h sworn by one, hath bound us both. 
Yes, fondly, wisely hast thou done; 
That vow hath saved more heads than one: 
But blench not thou — thy simplest tress 
Claims more from me than tenderness; 
I would not wrong the slenderest hair 
That clusters round thy forehead fair, 
For all the treasures buried far 
Within the caves of Istakar. [19] 
This morning clouds upon me lower'd, 
Reproaches on my head were shower'd, 
And Giaffir almost call'd me coward! 
Now I have motive to b...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)
...heart
Pine for the heartless ones enrolled
With palterers of the mart?
Shall faith abjure her skies,
Or pale probation blench her down
To shrink from Truth so still, so lone
Mid loud gregarious lies?

Each burning boat in Caesar's rear,
Flames -No return through me!
So put the torch to ties though dear,
If ties but tempters be.
Nor cringe if come the night:
Walk through the cloud to meet the pall,
Though light forsake thee, never fall
From fealty to light....Read more of this...
by Melville, Herman
...the nuptial torch,
     A thousand villages in flames
     Shall scare the slumbers of King James!—
     Nay, Ellen, blench not thus away,
     And, mother, cease these signs, I pray;
     I meant not all my heat might say.—
     Small need of inroad or of fight,
     When the sage Douglas may unite
     Each mountain clan in friendly band,
     To guard the passes of their land,
     Till the foiled King from pathless glen
     Shall bootless turn him home again.'...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

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