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Famous Forthcoming Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...ands are donors of 
Still wait intact somewhere, 
Furled up all golden in a perfumed place 
Within the folded petals of forthcoming days. 


Only forever, in the old unrest 
Of winds and waters and the varying year, 
A litany from islands of the blessed 
Answers, Not here . . . not here! 
And over the wide world that wandering cry 
Shall lead my searching heart unsoothed until I die....Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan



...us Ethiop in his faith in stars! 
 But give one thought to Stuart, two for yourself! 
 In his appointed hour, all was forthcoming— 
 Judge, axe, and deathsman veiled! and my poor eyes 
 Descry—as would thou saw'st!—a figure veiled, 
 Uplooming there—afar, like sunrise, coming! 
 With blade that ne'er spared Judas 'midst free brethren! 
 Stretch not the hand of Cromwell for the prize 
 Meant not for him, nor his! Thou growest old, 
 The people are ever young! Like her...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor
...unding on the gates of an amazed
Castle. Your argument, Francesco,
Had begun to grow stale as no answer
Or answers were forthcoming. If it dissolves now
Into dust, that only means its time had come
Some time ago, but look now, and listen:
It may be that another life is stocked there
In recesses no one knew of; that it,
Not we, are the change; that we are in fact it
If we could get back to it, relive some of the way
It looked, turn our faces to the globe as it sets
And still b...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John
...ave been gaps,
If she had not been wonderfully clever:
That her sense was so great, and so witty her pate, 
It would be forthcoming for ever; 

But that's quite absurd, for have you not heard
That much tongue and few brains are connected? 
That they are supposed to think least who talk most, 
And their wisdom is always suspected? 

While Lucy was young, had she bridled her tongue, 
With a little good sense and exertion, 
Who knows, but she might now have been our delight, 
In...Read more of this...
by Taylor, Ann
...hey go grinding
Up and down with nobody minding:
And then, as of old, at the end of the humming
Her usual presents were forthcoming
---A dog-whistle blowing the fiercest of trebles,
(Just a sea-shore stone holding a dozen fine pebbles,)
Or a porcelain mouth-piece to screw on a pipe-end,---
And so she awaited her annual stipend.
But this time, the Duke would scarcely vouchsafe
A word in reply; and in vain she felt
With twitching fingers at her belt
For the purse of sleek pine-...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert



...atient to stain 
 The bloodthirsty arena; 
 Whilst the women of Rome, who applauded those deeds 
 And who hailed the forthcoming enjoyment, must needs 
 Shame the restless hyena. 
 
 They who figured as guests on that ultimate eve, 
 In their turn on the morrow were destined to give 
 To the lions their food; 
 For, behold, in the guise of a slave at that board, 
 Where his victims enjoyed all that life can afford, 
 Death administering stood. 
 
 Such, O monarch...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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