Famous Dexterous Poems by Famous Poets

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Eviradnus

...
 Put in his hands the stony hatchets both, 
 With which—even like death impartially— 
 Struck Attila, with one arm dexterously 
 The south, and with the other arm the north. 
 
 This day the town the threatening flag set forth 
 Of Marquis Swantibore, the monster he 
 Who in the wood tied up his wife, to be 
 Devoured by wolves, together with the bull 
 Of which with jealousy his heart was full. 
 
 Even when woman took the place of heir 
 The tower of Corbus c...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


Home Thoughts

...t suddenly and quiveringly here, 
Amid the city's noises, I must think 
Of mangoes leaning o'er the river's brink, 
And dexterous Davie climbing high above, 
The gold fruits ebon-speckled to remove, 
And toss them quickly in the tangled mass 
Of wis-wis twisted round the guinea grass; 
And Cyril coming through the bramble-track 
A prize bunch of bananas on his back; 
And Georgie--none could ever dive like him-- 
Throwing his scanty clothes off for a swim; 
And schoolboys, fro...Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude

The Buglers First Communion

...g angel-warder
Squander the hell-rook ranks sally to molest him;
 March, kind comrade, abreast him;
Dress his days to a dexterous and starlight order. 

How it dóes my heart good, visiting at that bleak hill,
When limber liquid youth, that to all I teach
 Yields tender as a pushed peach,
Hies headstrong to its wellbeing of a self-wise self-will! 

Then though I should tread tufts of consolation
Dáys áfter, só I in a sort deserve to
 And do serve God to serve to
Just such slip...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

To The Driving Cloud

...am through the night; and the cloud of dust in the gray of the
daybreak
Marks not the buffalo's track, nor the Mandan's dexterous
horse-race;
It is a caravan, whitening the desert where dwell the Camanches!
Ha! how the breath of these Saxons and Celts, like the blast of
the east-wind,
Drifts evermore to the west the scanty smokes of thy wigwams!...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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