Famous Dispose Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Dispose poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous dispose poems. These examples illustrate what a famous dispose poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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A Brook in the City

...r pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
Is water wood to serve a brook the same?
How else dispose of an immortal force
No longer needed? Staunch it at its source
With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was
thrown Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run -
And all for nothing it hd ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
I...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul And Created Pleasure

...;
Which the posting Winds recall,
And suspend the Rivers Fall.

Soul
Had I but any time to lose,
On this I would it all dispose.
Cease Tempter. None can chain a mind
Whom this sweet Chordage cannot bind.

Chorus
Earth cannot shew so brave a Sight
As when a single Soul does fence
The Batteries of alluring Sense,
And Heaven views it with delight.
Then persevere: for still new Charges sound:
And if thou overcom'st thou shalt be crown'd.

Pleasure
All this fair, and cost, and swe...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul And Created Pleasure

...;
Which the posting Winds recall,
And suspend the Rivers Fall.

Soul
Had I but any time to lose,
On this I would it all dispose.
Cease Tempter. None can chain a mind
Whom this sweet Chordage cannot bind.

Chorus
Earth cannot shew so brave a Sight
As when a single Soul does fence
The Batteries of alluring Sense,
And Heaven views it with delight.
Then persevere: for still new Charges sound:
And if thou overcom'st thou shalt be crown'd.

Pleasure
All this fair, and cost, and swe...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

First Anniversary

...dst left beneath with mantle rent. 

For all delight of life thou then didst lose, 
When to command, thou didst thyself dispose; 
Resigning up thy privacy so dear, 
To turn the headstrong people's charioteer; 
For to be Cromwell was a greater thing, 
Then ought below, or yet above a king: 
Therefore thou rather didst thyself depress, 
Yielding to rule, because it made thee less. 

For neither didst thou from the first apply 
Thy sober spirit unto things too high, 
But in thin...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Five Ways To Kill A Man

...ats, a dozen songs
and some round hats made of steel.

In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly
miles above your victim and dispose of him by
pressing one small switch. All you then
require is an ocean to separate you, two
systems of government, a nation's scientists,
several factories, a psychopath and
land that no-one needs for several years.

These are, as I began, cumbersome ways
to kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat
is to see that he is living somewhere in the m...Read more of this...
by Brock, Edwin


Five Ways To Kill A Man

...ats, a dozen songs
and some round hats made of steel.

In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly
miles above your victim and dispose of him by
pressing one small switch. All you then
require is an ocean to separate you, two
systems of government, a nation's scientists,
several factories, a psychopath and
land that no-one needs for several years.

These are, as I began, cumbersome ways
to kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat
is to see that he is living somewhere in the m...Read more of this...
by Breton, Andre

From Samson Agonistes i

...ked, who surpris'd 
Lose thir defence distracted and amaz'd. 

ALL is best, though we oft doubt, 
What th' unsearchable dispose 
Of highest wisdom brings about, 
And ever best found in the close. 
Oft he seems to hide his face, 
But unexpectedly returns 
And to his faithful Champion hath in place 
Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns 
And all that band them to resist 
His uncontroulable intent. 
His servants he with new acquist 
Of true experience from this great event...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Heroic Stanzas

...rescu'd Ireland to him owes, 
And treacherous Scotland, to no int'rest true, 
Yet bless'd that fate which did his arms dispose 
Her land to civilize as to subdue. 

18

Nor was he like those stars which only shine 
When to pale mariners they storms portend; 
He had his calmer influence, and his mien 
Did love and majesty together blend. 

19

'Tis true, his count'nance did imprint an awe, 
And naturally all souls to his did bow, 
As wands of divination downward draw 
And poi...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

Last Instructions to a Painter

...Herc?lean labours he may sink. 
Soon then the independent troops would close, 
And Hyde's last project would his place dispose. 

Ruyter the while, that had our ocean curbed, 
Sailed now among our rivers undistrubed, 
Surveyed their crystal streams and banks so green 
And beauties ere this never naked seen. 
Through the vain sedge, the bashful nymphs he eyed: 
Bosoms, and all which from themselves they hide. 
The sun much brighter, and the skies more clear, 
He finds the air...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

MFingal - Canto II

...rather risk your heads in fight,
Than gratefully throw in your mite?
Can they for debts make satisfaction,
Should they dispose their realm at auction,
And sell off Britain's goods and land all
To France and Spain, by inch of candle?
Shall good King George, with want oppress'd,
Insert his name in bankrupt list,
And shut up shop, like failing merchant,
That fears the bailiffs should make search in't;
With poverty shall princes strive,
And nobles lack whereon to live?
Have they...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

Myself and Mine

...ties;
What others give as duties, I give as living impulses; 
(Shall I give the heart’s action as a duty?) 

Let others dispose of questions—I dispose of nothing—I arouse unanswerable
 questions;

Who are they I see and touch, and what about them? 
What about these likes of myself, that draw me so close by tender directions and
 indirections?

I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my
 enemies—as I
 myself do; 
I charge you, too, forever, re...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Paradise Lost: Book 01

...we must change for Heaven?--this mournful gloom 
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he 
Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid 
What shall be right: farthest from him is best 
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme 
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields, 
Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, 
Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, 
Receive thy new possessor--one who brings 
A mind not to be changed by place or time. 
The mind is its own...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 08

...hid; 
Leave them to God above; him serve, and fear! 
Of other creatures, as him pleases best, 
Wherever placed, let him dispose; joy thou 
In what he gives to thee, this Paradise 
And thy fair Eve; Heaven is for thee too high 
To know what passes there; be lowly wise: 
Think only what concerns thee, and thy being; 
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there 
Live, in what state, condition, or degree; 
Contented that thus far hath been revealed 
Not of Earth only, but of ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 11

...ure foul, 
Eject him, tainted now; and purge him off, 
As a distemper, gross, to air as gross, 
And mortal food; as may dispose him best 
For dissolution wrought by sin, that first 
Distempered all things, and of incorrupt 
Corrupted. I, at first, with two fair gifts 
Created him endowed; with happiness, 
And immortality: that fondly lost, 
This other served but to eternize woe; 
Till I provided death: so death becomes 
His final remedy; and, after life, 
Tried in sharp tribu...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Regained: The Second Book

...need,
Why shouldst thou not accept it? But I see
What I can do or offer is suspect.
Of these things others quickly will dispose, 
Whose pains have earned the far-fet spoil." With that
Both table and provision vanished quite,
With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard;
Only the importune Tempter still remained,
And with these words his temptation pursued:—
 "By hunger, that each other creature tames,
Thou art not to be harmed, therefore not moved;
Thy temperance, invincible...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Regained: The Third Book

...years are ripe, and over-ripe. The son
Of Macedonian Philip had ere these
Won Asia, and the throne of Cyrus held
At his dispose; young Scipio had brought down
The Carthaginian pride; young Pompey quelled
The Pontic king, and in triumph had rode.
Yet years, and to ripe years judgment mature,
Quench not the thirst of glory, but augment.
Great Julius, whom now all the world admires,
The more he grew in years, the more inflamed 
With glory, wept that he had lived so long
Ingloroi...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Sacrifice

...hey did call, 
With Manna, Angels' food, I fed them all: 
Was ever grief like mine? 

They part my garments, and by lot dispose
My coat, the type of love, which once cur'd those
Who sought for help, never malicious foes: 
Was ever grief like mine? 

Nay, after death their spite shall further go; 
For they will pierce my side, I full well know; 
That as sin came, so Sacraments might flow: 
Was ever grief like mine? 

But now I die; now all is finished.
My woe, man's weal: and ...Read more of this...
by Herbert, George

The Task: Book II The Time-Piece (excerpts)

...d, and hold them fast,
And force them sit, till he has pencill'd off
A faithful likeness of the forms he views;
Then to dispose his copies with such art
That each may find its most propitious light,
And shine by situation hardly less
Than by the labour and the skill it cost,
Are occupations of the poet's mind
So pleasing, and that steal away the thought
With such address from themes of sad import,
That, lost in his own musings, happy man!
He feels th' anxieties of life, denie...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

The Vision of Judgment

...gone through 
Already; and I merely argued his 
Late majesty of Britain's case with you 
Upon a point of form: you may dispose 
Of him; I've kings enough below, God knows!' 

LXV 

Thus spoke the Demon (late call'd 'multifaced' 
By multo-scribbling Southey). 'Then we'll call 
One or two persons of the myriads placed 
Around our congress, and dispense with all 
The rest,' quoth Michael: 'Who may be so graced 
As to speak first? there's choice enough — who shall 
It be?' Then ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage

...ver
To others courtship may appear,
 'Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
 And were 't not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
 A petty household god? 

First make the sun in private shine
 And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine
 In compliment to you:
But if of that you do despair,
 Think how you did amiss
To strive to fix her beams which are
 More bright and large than his....Read more of this...
by Philips, Katherine

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