Famous Expectantly Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Whitman, Walt
...stammerer, the well-form’d person, the wasted or feeble person.
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I am she who adorn’d herself and folded her hair expectantly,
My truant lover has come, and it is dark.
Double yourself and receive me, darkness!
Receive me and my lover too—he will not let me go without him.
I roll myself upon you, as upon a bed—I resign myself to the dusk.
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He whom I call answers me, and takes the place of my lover,
He rises with me silently from the bed.
Darkn...Read more of this...
by
Strand, Mark
...The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly.
They moisten their lips with their tongues. I can feel
them urging me on. I hold the baby in the air.
Heaps of broken bottles glitter in the sun.
A small band is playing old fashioned marches.
My mother is keeping time by stamping her foot.
My father is kissing a woman who keeps waving
to somebody else. There are...Read more of this...
by
Emanuel, James A
...f days of squirm and bite
that waved antennas through the grass;
of nights
when every moving thing
was girlshaped,
expectantly turning.
To every man
His house below
And his house above—
With perilous stairs
Between....Read more of this...
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