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“I say something else that’s true, son of Ecglaf,
that Grendel never would have shown so many terrors,
that fearsome fighter, to your own prince,
such shame in Heorot, if your spirit, your heart,
was as cleverly pointed as you hold yourself—
but he has discovered that he need not fear much
the feuds of your people —Victory-Scyldings—
nor their fearsome onrush of their blades.
He extorts tribute, is merciful to none
of the Danish people, makes war on joy its...Read more of this...

...t flock;
And I would watch you silently,
 A one with time and rock.
Then foreign farings you would chart,
 And fly with fearsome wings,
While I would bide to be a part
 Of elemental things.

Yet strangely I would have it so,
 Since I am kin to these,--
To heather heath and bloom ablow,
 And peaks and piney trees.
As diamond star at evenfall,
 And pearly morning mist
Sing in my veins, myself I call
 An Elementalist.

So as in city dirt and din
 I push a grubby pen,
And toil, m...Read more of this...

...'t do nothin' worse 'n what I used to do
'Fore mother went a-visitin' to spend a month er two.
The sparrers ac's more fearsome like an' won't hop quite so near,
The cricket's chirp is sadder, an' the sky ain't ha'f so clear;
When ev'nin' comes, I set an' smoke tell my eyes begin to swim,
An' things aroun' commence to look all blurred an' faint an' dim.
Well, I guess I 'll have to own up 'at I 'm feelin' purty blue
Sence mother's gone a-visitin' to spend a month er two....Read more of this...

...She wrapped her soul in a lace of lies,
With a prime deceit to pin it;
And I thought I was gaining a fearsome prize,
So I staked my soul to win it.
We wed and parted on her complaint,
And both were a bit of barter,
Tho' I'll confess that I'm no saint,
I'll swear that she's no martyr.
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...ld hen on the nest, 
While the auld cock sits beside. 

"But speak them fair, and speak them saft, 
Lest they kick ye a fearsome jolt. 
Ye can gi' them a feed of thae half-inch nails 
Or a rusty carriage bolt." 

So little son Jack ran blithely down 
With the rusty nails in hand, 
Till he came where the emus fluffed and scratched 
By their nest in the open sand. 

And there he has gathered the new-laid egg -- 
'Twould feed three men or four -- 
And the emus came for the half-...Read more of this...

...the
size of my own fist, in front of my
face—out of its humped runkles those
several springs of milk, so fierce
almost fearsome. What did I think
in that brain gridded for thought, its cups
loaded with languageless rennet? And at night,
when they timed me, four hours of screaming, not a
minute more, four, those quatrains of
icy yell, then the cold tap water
to get me over my shameless hunger,
what was it like to be there when that
hunger was driven into my structure at such
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...ery day; 
But when there’s been a shower of rain 
And hedge-birds whistle gay, 
I know my lad that’s out in France
With fearsome things to see 
Would give his eyes for just one glance 
At our white hawthorn tree.

. . . . 
Not much to me is yonder lane 
Where he so longs to tread:
But when there’s been a shower of rain 
I think I’ll never weep again 
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...r kevils in,
For wha will tae the parlour gae,
And stay that deadlie din. 

When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the fearsome noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!" 

Syne, he has taen a supple cane
To swinge that dog sae fat:
The doggie yowled, the doggie howled
The louder aye for that. 

Syne, he has taen a mutton-bane -
The doggie ceased his noise,
And followed doon the kitchen stair
That prince of button-boys! 

Then sadly spake tha...Read more of this...

...at; 
And the people shall breed like rabbits and mate as animals mate. 

For lo! the Big Five have said it, each with a fearsome frown; 
Each for his chosen country, State, and city and town; 
Each for his lawn and table and the bed where he lies him down. 

Cobbler and crank and chandler, magpie and ape disguised; 
Each bound to his grocery corner – these are the Five we prized; 
Bleating the teaching of others whom they ever despised. 

But three shall meet in a cellar, com...Read more of this...

...riends were; 
So Morgan came, and Fingal came, 
And out we went with her.

’T was a lonely way for a man to take 
And a fearsome way for three; 
And over the water, and all day long, 
They had come for the night with me. 

But the girl was dead, as the woman had said,
And the best we could see to do 
Was to lay her aboard. The north wind roared, 
And into the night we flew. 

Four of us living and one for a ghost, 
Furrowing crest and swell,
Through the surge and the dark, fo...Read more of this...

..., with clang and chime, 
Flashed on each murk and murderous meeting-time, 
 And kings invoked, for rape and raid, 
 His fearsome aid in rune and rhyme. 

III 

 On bruise and blood-hole, scar and seam, 
On blade and bolt, he flung his fulgid beam: 
 His haloes rayed the very gore, 
 And corpses wore his glory-gleam. 

IV 

 Often an early King or Queen, 
And storied hero onward, knew his sheen; 
 'Twas glimpsed by Wolfe, by Ney anon, 
 And Nelson on his blue demesne. 

V 

 B...Read more of this...

...ing's moment,
Lay down and waited for her grace
That was not known yet as torment.



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This city by the fearsome river
Was my crib blessed and dear
And a solemn wedding bed
Which the garlands for the head
Your young cherubs held above -
A city loved with bitter love.

The subject of my prayers
Were you, moody, calm, and austere.
There first the groom came to me
Having shown me the pathway holy,
And that sad muse of mine
Led me like one blind.


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