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Famous Frankness Poems by Famous Poets

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...e this 
Sought out the sage himself, the Nazarene 
Who wrought this cure, inquiring at the source, 
Conferring with the frankness that befits? 
Alas! it grieveth me, the learned leech 
Perished in a tumult many years ago, 
Accused,--our learning's fate,--of wizardry, 
Rebellion, to the setting up a rule 
And creed prodigious as described to me. 
His death, which happened when the earthquake fell 
(Prefiguring, as soon appeared, the loss 
To occult learning in our lord the sag...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert



...before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

fortitude as never before

frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies.

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There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old ***** gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization,

Charm, smiling at the good mouth,
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,

For two gross of broken statues,
For a f...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra
...ire of Rest: 
Blends, in exception to all general rules, 
Your Taste of Follies, with our Scorn of Fools: 
Reserve with Frankness, Art with Truth ally'd, 
Courage with Softness, Modesty with Pride; 
Fix'd Principles, with Fancy ever new; 
Shakes all together, and produces--You. 

Be this a Woman's Fame: with this unblest, 
Toasts live a scorn, and Queens may die a jest. 
This Phoebus promis'd (I forget the year) 
When those blue eyes first open'd on the sphere; 
Ascendant Pho...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander
...before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

fortitude as never before 

frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies.


V. 

There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old ***** gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.

Charm, smiling at the good mouth,
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,

For two gross of broken statues,
For...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra
...et"
with its "good monster, lead the way,"
with little laughter
and munificence of humor
in that quixotic atmosphere of frankness
in which "Four o'clock does not exist
but at five o'clock
the ladies in their imperious humility
are ready to receive you";
in which experience attests
that men have power
and sometimes one is made to feel it.
He says, "what monarch would not blush
to have a wife
with hair like a shaving-brush?
The fact of woman
is not `the sound of the flute
but e...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne



...before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

fortitude as never before

frankness as never before,
disillusions as never told in the old days,
hysterias, trench confessions,
laughter out of dead bellies....Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra

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