Famous Flow Away Poems by Famous Poets

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Alastor: or the Spirit of Solitude

...and blasted, clenched with grasping roots
The unwilling soil. A gradual change was here
Yet ghastly. For, as fast years flow away,
The smooth brow gathers, and the hair grows thin
And white, and where irradiate dewy eyes
Had shone, gleam stony orbs:--so from his steps
Bright flowers departed, and the beautiful shade
Of the green groves, with all their odorous winds
And musical motions. Calm he still pursued
The stream, that with a larger volume now 
Rolled through the labyrin...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Dream Song 130: When I saw my friend covered with blood I thought

...tcht on his own rack,
our book is coming out in paperback,
Henry has not ceased loving

but wishes all that blood would flow away
leaving his friend crisp, ready for all
in the new world O.
I see him brace, and on that note I pray
the blood recede like an old folderol 
and he spring up & go....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

The Klondike

...g feather, 
Still he’s here to talk with us and to the golden river. 

“Flow,” he says, “and flow along, but you cannot flow away from us;
All the world’s ice will never keep you far from us; 
Every man that heeds your call takes the way that leads him— 
The one way that’s his way, and lives his own life: 
Starve or laugh, the game goes on, and on goes the river; 
Gold or no, they go their way—twelve men together.

“Twelve,” he says, “who sold their shame for a lure you call ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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