Famous Discerns Poems by Famous Poets

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Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers

...u birth, 
And its sons are just the noblest and most glorious chaps on earth; 
If in every girl a Venus your poetic eye discerns, 
You are gracefully referred to as the `young Australian Burns'. 

But if you should find that bushmen -- spite of all the poets say -- 
Are just common brother-sinners, and you're quite as good as they -- 
You're a drunkard, and a liar, and a cynic, and a sneak, 
Your grammar's simply awful and your intellect is weak....Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry


Canzone XI.(R)

...e will He guide with his own flock to feed. Haply not every one who reads discerns;Some set the snare at times who take no spoil;Who strains too much may break the bow in twain.Let not the law be lame when suitors watch.To be at ease we many a mile descend.To-day's great marvel is to-morrow's scorn.A ...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

De Profundis

...
XXI

For us, —whatever's undergone,
Thou knowest, willest what is done,
Grief may be joy misunderstood; 
Only the Good discerns the good. 
I trust Thee while my days go on.

XXII

Whatever's lost, it first was won; 
We will not struggle nor impugn. 
Perhaps the cup was broken here, 
That Heaven's new wine might show more clear. 
I praise Thee while my days go on.

XXIII

I praise Thee while my days go on; 
I love Thee while my days go on: 
Through dark and dearth, through fi...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

On The Hurricane

...ing the Rays, he had no Joy to keep, 
In the obscure, and sadly threaten'd Deep. 


Farther than we, that Eye of Heaven discerns, 
And nearer plac'd to our malignant Stars, 
Our brooding Tempests, and approaching Wars 
Anticipating learns. 
When now, too soon the dark Event 
Shews what that faded Planet meant; 
Whilst more the liquid Empire undergoes, 
More she resigns of her entrusted Stores, 
The Wealth, the Strength, the Pride of diff'rent Shores 
In one Devoted, one Recor...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

Paradise Lost: Book 01

...nce they fell! 
There the companions of his fall, o'erwhelmed 
With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, 
He soon discerns; and, weltering by his side, 
One next himself in power, and next in crime, 
Long after known in Palestine, and named 
Beelzebub. To whom th' Arch-Enemy, 
And thence in Heaven called Satan, with bold words 
Breaking the horrid silence, thus began:-- 
 "If thou beest he--but O how fallen! how changed 
From him who, in the happy realms of light 
Cloth...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Paradise Lost: Book 05

..., allured them, and with lies 
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's host. 
Mean while the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns 
Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount, 
And from within the golden lamps that burn 
Nightly before him, saw without their light 
Rebellion rising; saw in whom, how spread 
Among the sons of morn, what multitudes 
Were banded to oppose his high decree; 
And, smiling, to his only Son thus said. 
Son, thou in whom my glory I behold 
In full r...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 09

...it, our doom is, we shall die! 
How dies the Serpent? he hath eaten and lives, 
And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns, 
Irrational till then. For us alone 
Was death invented? or to us denied 
This intellectual food, for beasts reserved? 
For beasts it seems: yet that one beast which first 
Hath tasted envies not, but brings with joy 
The good befallen him, author unsuspect, 
Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. 
What fear I then? rather, what know to fear 
U...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Bride Of Corinth

...ed.

Scarce are closed his eyes,

When a form in-hies

Through the open door with silent tread.

By his glimmering lamp discerns he now

How, in veil and garment white array'd,
With a black and gold band round her brow,

Glides into the room a bashful maid.

But she, at his sight,

Lifts her hand so white,

And appears as though full sore afraid.

"Am I," cries she, "such a stranger here,

That the guest's approach they could not name?
Ah, they keep me in my cloister drear,

...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

The Gods Of Greece

...their own light their fulness and decay.
Home to the poet's land the gods are flown,
Light use in them that later world discerns,
Which, the diviner leading-strings outgrown,
On its own axle turns.

Home! and with them are gone
The hues they gazed on and the tones they heard;
Life's beauty and life's melody:--alone
Broods o'er the desolate void, the lifeless word;
Yet rescued from time's deluge, still they throng
Unseen the Pindus they were wont to cherish:
All, that which ga...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Heart has narrow Banks

...row Banks
It measures like the Sea
In mighty -- unremitting Bass
And Blue Monotony

Till Hurricane bisect
And as itself discerns
Its insufficient Area
The Heart convulsive learns

That Calm is but a Wall
Of unattempted Gauze
An instant's Push demolishes
A Questioning -- dissolves....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

The Lord of Burleigh

...She will order all things duly, 
When beneath his roof they come. 
Thus her heart rejoices greatly, 
Till a gateway she discerns 
With armorial bearings stately, 
And beneath the gate she turns; 
Sees a mansion more majestic 
Than all those she saw before: 
Many a gallant gay domestic 
Bows before him at the door. 
And they speak in gentle murmur, 
When they answer to his call, 
While he treads with footstep firmer, 
Leading on from hall to hall. 
And, while now she wonders b...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

the ordinary again

...ble heart
it speaks all languages
it eludes science
it wracks art
it is the lavatory the fool
and the wise man share
it discerns truly

man if you are not ordinary
you are a bloated 
nothing
when you burst you spill
your ordinary intestines

and in no time
your stink is
assuaged by the stream...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

The Robins my Criterion for Tune

...t -- I'm taught --
Without the Snow's Tableau
Winter, were lie -- to me --
Because I see -- New Englandly --
The Queen, discerns like me --
Provincially --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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