Famous Fitness Poems by Famous Poets

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My Rival

...they were just like flint and steel
To strike the spark of woe and weal;
Or like two splinters broken fine,
In perfect fitness to combine;
And so I ept them well apart,
For she was precious to my heart.
One time we all three met at church
I tried to give the lad the lurch,
But heard him say: "How like a rose!
is it your daughter , I suppose?"
"Why no," said I; "My wife to be,
And sic months gone wi' child is she."
He looked astonished and distraught:
My boy, that's one for y...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Old Codger

...Of garden truck he made his fare,
 As his bright eyes bore witness;
Health was his habit and his care,
 His hobby human fitness.
He sang the praise of open sky,
 The gladth of Nature's giving;
And when at last he came to die
 It was of too long living.

He held aloof from hate and strife,
 Drank peace in dreamful doses;
He never voted in his life,
 Loved children, dogs and roses.
Let tyrants romp in gory glee,
 And revolutions roister,
He passed his days as peacefully
 As fri...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Song of Myself

...receives proof in its turn. 

Showing the best, and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age; 
Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am
 silent, and go bathe and admire myself. 

Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean; 
Not an inch, nor a particle of an inch, is vile, and none shall be less familiar
 than the rest.

I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing: 
As the hugging and loving Bed-fe...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Thrill came slowly like a Boom for

...The Thrill came slowly like a Boom for
Centuries delayed
Its fitness growing like the Flood
In sumptuous solitude --
The desolations only missed
While Rapture changed its Dress
And stood amazed before the Change
In ravished Holiness --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Tipperary Days

...',
Mais mon coeur 'ees zaire'."

The gallant old "Contemptibles"! There isn't much remains of them,
 So full of fun and fitness, and a-singing in their pride;
For some are cold as clabber and the corby picks the brains of them,
 And some are back in Blighty, and a-wishing they had died.
And yet it seems but yesterday, that great, glad sight of them,
 Swinging on to battle as the sky grew black and black;
But oh their glee and glory, and the great, grim fight of them! --
 Just...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


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