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Famous Enlightens Poems by Famous Poets

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by Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...at first begun 
Our Life's uncertain Race! 
Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, 
With which we just set out to run 
Enlightens all the Place. 

How smiling the World's Prospect lies 
How tempting to go through ! 
Not Canaan to the Prophet's Eyes, 
From Pisgah with a sweet Surprize, 
Did more inviting shew. 

How promising's the Book of Fate, 
Till thoroughly understood! 
Whilst partial Hopes such Lots create, 
As may the youthful Fancy treat 
With all that's Great...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...
Saw the same sun go down year after year;
All which at last was my discovery. 
And only mine, so far as evidence 
Enlightens one more darkness. You have known 
All round you, all your days, men who are nothing— 
Nothing, I mean, so far as time tells yet
Of any other need it has of them 
Than to make sextons hardy—but no less 
Are to themselves incalculably something, 
And therefore to be cherished. God, you see, 
Being sorry for them in their fashioning,
Indemni...Read more of this...

by Darwish, Mahmoud
...word 
You have given me back to the dictionaries 
And relieve the sleepers from the echo’s buzz. 

*** 
The martyr enlightens me: beyond the expanse 
I did not look 
For the virgins of immortality for I love life 
On earth, amid fig trees and pines, 
But I cannot reach it, and then, too, I took aim at it 
With my last possession: the blood in the body of azure. 

*** 
The martyr warned me: Do not believe their ululations 
Believe my father when, weeping, he looks at ...Read more of this...

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