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Famous Burnishes Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...e peaches and pom'granates stand, 
 Where wild carnations blow. 

 LXI 
The laurels with the winter strive; 
The crocus burnishes alive 
 Upon the snow-clad earth: 
For ADORATION myrtles stay 
To keep the garden from dismay, 
 And bless the sight from dearth. 

 LXII 
The pheasant shows his pompous neck; 
The ermine, jealous of a speck, 
 With fear eldues offence: 
The sable, with his glossy pride, 
For ADORATION is describ'd, 
 Where frosts the waves condense. 

 LXIII 
The ...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher



...sweetens a world;
and the artichoke
dulcetly there in a gardenplot,
armed for a skirmish,
goes proud
in its pomegranate
burnishes.
Till, on a day,
each by the other,
the artichoke moves
to its dream
of a market place
in the big willow
hoppers:
a battle formation.
Most warlike
of defilades-
with men
in the market stalls,
white shirts
in the soup-greens,
artichoke field marshals,
close-order conclaves,
commands, detonations,
and voices,
a crashing of crate staves.

And
Maria
co...Read more of this...
by Neruda, Pablo
...do with what is promised today, our
Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear
On the horizon. Today enough of a cover burnishes
To keep the supposition of promises together
In one piece of surface, letting one ramble
Back home from them so that these
Even stronger possibilities can remain
Whole without being tested. Actually
The skin of the bubble-chamber's as tough as
Reptile eggs; everything gets "programmed" there
In due course: more keeps getting included 
Without addin...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John

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