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Famous Equilibrium Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...is, and why it is. 
'Sayeth, he will wait patient to the last 
For that same death which must restore his being 
To equilibrium, body loosening soul 
Divorced even now by premature full growth: 
He will live, nay, it pleaseth him to live 
So long as God please, and just how God please. 
He even seeketh not to please God more 
(Which meaneth, otherwise) than as God please. 
Hence, I perceive not he affects to preach 
The doctrine of his sect whate'er it be, 
Make p...Read more of this...



by Tessimond, A S J
...If a man says half himself in the light, adroit
Way a tune shakes into equilibrium,
Or approximates to a note that never comes:

Says half himself in the way two pencil-lines
Flow to each other and softly separate,
In the resolute way plane lifts and leaps from plane:

Who knows what intimacies our eyes may shout,
What evident secrets daily foreheads flaunt,
What panes of glass conceal our beating hearts?...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...erer, 
The superstitious atheist, demirep 
That loves and saves her soul in new French books-- 
We watch while these in equilibrium keep 
The giddy line midway: one step aside, 
They're classed and done with. I, then, keep the line 
Before your sages,--just the men to shrink 
From the gross weights, coarse scales and labels broad 
You offer their refinement. Fool or knave? 
Why needs a bishop be a fool or knave 
When there's a thousand diamond weights between? 
So, I ...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...ul, there is truth—if there be man or woman there is truth—if
 there
 be physical or moral, there is truth;
If there be equilibrium or volition, there is truth—if there be things at all upon
 the
 earth, there is truth. 

O truth of the earth! I am determin’d to press my way toward you; 
Sound your voice! I scale mountains, or dive in the sea after you. 

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Great is Language—it is the mightiest of the sciences, 
It is the fulness, color, form, diversity of the earth, ...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...he amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the
 great
 charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, 
Who has not look’d forth from the windows, the eyes, for nothing, or whose brain held
 audience with messengers for nothing; 
Who contains believers and disbelievers—Who is the most majestic lover; 
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the
 aesthetic, or
 intellectual,
Who, having consider’d the Body...Read more of this...



by García Lorca, Federico
...t has no
torn clothes, no shells, and no tears,
because even the tiny banquet of a spider
is enough to upset the entire equilibrium of the sky.
There is no cure for the moaning from a Japanese schooner,
nor for those shadowy people who stumble on the curbs.
The countryside bites its own tail in order to gather a bunch of roots
and a ball of yarn looks anxiously in the grass for unrealized longitude.
The Moon! The police. The foghorns of the ocean liners!
Facad...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...I've come
I'll have to go again. Instead, I must convert
to love as reasonable
as Latin, as sold as earthenware:
an equilibrium
I never knew. And Lent will keep its hurt
for someone else. Christ knows enough
staunch guys have hitched him in trouble.
thinking his sticks were badges to wear.

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Spring rusts on its skinny branch
and last summer's lawn
is soggy and brown.
Yesterday is just a number.
All of its winters avalanche
out of sight. W...Read more of this...

by Ransom, John Crowe
...the grey word is between them cold as steel. 

At length I saw these lovers fully were come 
Into their torture of equilibrium; 
Dreadfully had forsworn each other, and yet 
They were bound each to each, and they did not forget. 

And rigid as two painful stars, and twirled 
About the clustered night their prison world, 
They burned with fierce love always to come near, 
But honor beat them back and kept them clear 
. 
Ah, the strict lovers, they are ruined now! ...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...alking our Wit
To sound or circumvent --
Hate cannot harm
A Foe so reticent --
Neither Decree prohibit him --
Lawful as Equilibrium....Read more of this...

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