Famous Congeal Poems by Famous Poets

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A Birthday Present

...it to me.

It stands at my window, big as the sky.
It breathes from my sheets, the cold dead center

Where split lives congeal and stiffen to history.
Let it not come by the mail, finger by finger.

Let it not come by word of mouth, I should be sixty
By the time the whole of it was delivered, and to numb to use it.

Only let down the veil, the veil, the veil.
If it were death

I would admire the deep gravity of it, its timeless eyes.
I would know you were serious.

There wou...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia


Dedication

...ess days are not. 
Of all my heroes, you endure. 

Words are such silly things! too rough, 
Too smooth, they boil up or congeal, 
And neither of us likes emotion -- 
But I can't measure my devotion! 
And you know how I really feel -- 
And we're together. There, enough . . ....Read more of this...
by Benet, Stephen Vincent

Sonnet XXXVIII: Oh Sigh

...d dwell,
Meek, as the dew-drops on the flowret's bell
By ruthless tempests to the green-sod prest.
Fond sigh be hush'd! congeal, O! slighted tear!
Thy feeble pow'rs the busy Fates control!
Or if thy crystal streams again appear,
Let them, like Lethe's, oblivion roll:
For Love the tyrant plays, when hope is near,
And she who flies the lover, chains the soul!...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

The Ballade Of The Automobile

...reseen
The motor stops with a last sad whine--
Then ho! For a gallon of gasoline!

When the air is crisp and the brooks congeal
And our sleigh glides on with a speed divine
While the gay bells echo with peal on peal,
We may carol the praises of ruby wine;
But when, with perverseness most condign,
In the same harsh snowstorm, cold and keen,
My auto stops at the six-mile sign--
Then ho! For a gallon of gasoline!

ENVOY

When yacht or Coach Club fellows dine
We may carol the pra...Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker

The Building

...eal
A touching dream to which we all are lulled
But wake from separately. In it, conceits
And self-protecting ignorance congeal
To carry life, collapsing only when

Called to these corridors (for now once more
The nurse beckons -). Each gets up and goes
At last. Some will be out by lunch, or four;
Others, not knowing it, have come to join
The unseen congregations whose white rows
Lie set apart above - women, men;
Old, young; crude facets of the only coin

This place accepts. ...Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip


The Evil Eye

...
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover
or your blood with congeal
like cold gravy.

If you run across a horseshoe,
passerby,
stop, take your hands out of your pockets
and count the nails
as you count your children
or your money.
Otherwise a sand flea will crawl in your ear
and fly into your brain
and the only way you'll keep from going mad
is to be hit with a hammer every hour.

If a hunchback is in the elevator wi...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Female Vagrant

...anguish toss'd,  Hope died, and fear itself in agony was lost!   Yet does that burst of woe congeal my frame,  When the dark streets appeared to heave and gape,  While like a sea the storming army came,  And Fire from hell reared his gigantic shape,  And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape  Seized their joint prey, the mother and the child!  But from these crazing thoughts my brain, esc...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

The Poets Calendar

...come and go. 
I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow; 
I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; 
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, 
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men. 

February

I am lustration, and the sea is mine! 
I wash the sands and headlands with my tide; 
My brow is crowned with branches of the pine; 
Before my chariot-wheels the fishes glide. 
By me all things unclean are purified, 
By me the souls of men washed white again; 
E'en...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To His Noble Friend Mr. Richard Lovelace Upon His Poems

...
But when the beauteous ladies came to know 
That their dear Lovelace was endangered so: 
Lovelace that thawed the most congeal?d breast -- 
He who loved best and them defended best, 
Whose hand so rudely grasps the steely brand, 
Whose hand most gently melts the lady's hand -- 
They all in mutiny though yet undressed 
Sallied, and would in his defence contest. 
And one, the loveliest that was yet e'er seen, 
Thinking that I too of the rout had been, 
Mine eyes invaded with a...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

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