Famous Graciously Poems by Famous Poets

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A Blue Valentine

...e.
It is very blue --
I think that her eyes have made it more blue,
Sweetly staining it
As the pressure of her body has graciously given it form.
Loving her, Monsignore,
I love all her attributes;
But I believe
That even if I did not love her
I would love the blueness of her eyes,
And her blue garment, made in the manner of the Japanese.
Monsignore,
I have never before troubled you with a request.
The saints whose ears I chiefly worry with my pleas
are the most exquisite and ...Read more of this...
by Kilmer, Joyce


A Fountain a Bottle a Donkeys Ears and Some Books

...ejected.
Here were all those the poetess's life
Had been too short to sell or give away.

"Take one," Old Davis bade me graciously.

"Why not take two or three?"

 "Take all you want."
Good-looking books like that." He picked one fresh
In virgin wrapper from deep in the box,
And stroked it with a horny-handed kindness.
He read in one and I read in another,
Both either looking for or finding something.

The attic wasps went missing by like bullets.

I was soon satisfied for th...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

A spring poem from bion

...its ice and snow!

"But, thrice welcome, kindly spring,
With the myriad gifts you bring!
Not too hot nor yet too cold,
Graciously your charms unfold--
Oh, your days are like the dreaming
Of those nights which love beseems,
And your nights have all the seeming
Of those days of golden dreams!
Heaven smiles down on earth, and then
Earth smiles up to heaven again!"...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

Beowulf (Modern English)

...elmet and a mail-coat.
Many famous treasured swords were seen
to be borne before that warrior. Beowulf received them
graciously on the floor. He had no need to be ashamed
before the fighters on account of those costly gifts
I have never learned of many men giving another
in a very friendly way, four such treasures,
garnished with gold, upon the ale-benches.
A crest contained it from without, woven with wires
about the roof of the helmet, that head-protection
so that...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Beowulf (Old English)

...en-souled thane
must be skilled to sever and sunder duly
words and works, if he well intends.
I gather, this band is graciously bent
to the Scyldings’ master. March, then, bearing
weapons and weeds the way I show you.
I will bid my men your boat meanwhile
to guard for fear lest foemen come, --
your new-tarred ship by shore of ocean
faithfully watching till once again
it waft o’er the waters those well-loved thanes,
-- winding-neck’d wood, -- to Weders’ bounds,
her...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


daft icarus

...l fly
and be damned to daft icarus
   i crowed
and i flew - or i fled (which is
very much the same grain of word
and it graciously covers the gap
between the experience i had in my head
and the one i met rushing up
from the ground where the glasshouse
splashed around to reflect me
as i passed on my way down to earth
and the squirt of my dad's best tomatoes
and my mum's angry mask of a face
that just wasn't brought up to be fruitful)
so i fled - or i flew - out the gate
up the...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

Dinner at the Who's Who

...ht, Kant and each other. 

 I wait in the hall after not 
powdering my nose, trying to re-
compose that woman who’ll 

 graciously take her place 
at the table and won’t tell her hosts:
I looked into your bedroom 

 and closets, smelled your 
“Obsession” and “Brut,” sat 
on your bed, imagined you 

 in those spotless sheets, looked 
long into the sad eyes of your son
staring at your walls from his frame.

 I tried to smile at myself 
in your mirrors, wondering if you 
smile t...Read more of this...
by Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

Elegy: Walking the Line

...
Magnolia, hybrid broom, and, further down,
In light shade, one Franklinia Alatamaha
In solstice bloom, all white, most graciously.
On the sunnier slope, the wild plums that my mother
Later would make preserves of, to give to friends
Or sell, in autumn, with the foxgrape, quince,
Elderberry, and muscadine. Around
The granite overhang, moist den of foxes;
Gradually up a long hill, high in pine,
Park-like, years of dry needles on the ground,
And dogwood, slopes the settlers ter...Read more of this...
by Bowers, Edgar

Flammonde

...
His cleansing heritage of taste 
Paraded neither want nor waste; 
And what he needed for his fee 
To live, he borrowed graciously.

He never told us what he was, 
Or what mischance, or other cause, 
Had banished him from better days 
To play the Prince of Castaways. 
Meanwhile he played surpassing well 
A part, for most, unplayable; 
In fine, one pauses, half afraid 
To say for certain that he played.

For that, one may as well forego 
Conviction as to yes or no; 
Nor can I ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Gareth And Lynette

...hou done; for all the stream is freed, 
And thou hast wreaked his justice on his foes, 
And when reviled, hast answered graciously, 
And makest merry when overthrown. Prince, Knight 
Hail, Knight and Prince, and of our Table Round!' 

And then when turning to Lynette he told 
The tale of Gareth, petulantly she said, 
'Ay well--ay well--for worse than being fooled 
Of others, is to fool one's self. A cave, 
Sir Lancelot, is hard by, with meats and drinks 
And forage for the ho...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Gawain and the Green Knight

...ttokez balygh and brode,
More lykkerwys on to lyk
Watz that scho hade on lode.
When Gawayn glyyght on that gay, that graciously loked,
Wyth leue layght of the lorde he lent hem ayghaynes;
The alder he haylses, heldande ful lowe,
The loueloker he lappez a lyttel in armez,
He kysses hir comlyly, and knyyghtly he melez.
Thay kallen hym of aquoyntaunce, and he hit quyk askez
To be her seruaunt sothly, if hemself lyked.
Thay tan hym bytwene hem, wyth talkyng hym leden
T...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Geraint And Enid

...be.' 

She spake so low he hardly heard her speak, 
But like a mighty patron, satisfied 
With what himself had done so graciously, 
Assumed that she had thanked him, adding, 'Yea, 
Eat and be glad, for I account you mine.' 

She answered meekly, 'How should I be glad 
Henceforth in all the world at anything, 
Until my lord arise and look upon me?' 

Here the huge Earl cried out upon her talk, 
As all but empty heart and weariness 
And sickly nothing; suddenly seized on her, ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

In Memory of a Happy Day in February

...His mercy all divine. 

Deep secrets of his providence
In darkness long concealed
Were brought to my delighted eyes
And graciously revealed. 

But while I wondered and adored
His wisdom so divine,
I did not tremble at his power,
I felt that God was mine. 

I knew that my Redeemer lived,
I did not fear to die;
Full sure that I should rise again
To immortality. 

I longed to view that bliss divine
Which eye hath never seen,
To see the glories of his face
Without the veil betwee...Read more of this...
by Bronte, Anne

My Legacy

...my friend bequeath to me; 

And, more than even these can be, 
The worthy pattern of a white, 
Unmarred life lived most graciously. 

Dear comrade, loyal thanks to thee 
Who now hath fared beyond my sight, 
My friend has gone away from me, 
But leaving a sweet legacy....Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Noctambule

...snoring.

Strike a sulphur match . . .
Ha! at last my garret.
Fumble at the latch,
Close the door and bar it.
Bed, you graciously
Wait, despite my scorning . . .
So, bibaciously
Mad old world, good morning....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

One Lonely Afternoon

...Since the fern can't go to the sink for a drink of
water, I graciously submit myself to the task, bringing two
glasses from the sink.
 And so we sit, the fern and I, sipping water together.


 Of course I'm more complex than a fern, full of deep
thoughts as I am. But I lay this aside for the easy company
of an afternoon friendship.

 I don't mind sipping water with a fern, even though,
had I my druthers, I'd be speed...Read more of this...
by Edson, Russell

The Driver

...Let not man to tempt the immortals e'er try,
Let him never desire the thing to see
That with terror and night they veil graciously."

"I was torn below with the speed of light,
When out of a cavern of rock
Rushed towards me a spring with furious might;
I was seized by the twofold torrent's wild shock,
And like a top, with a whirl and a bound,
Despite all resistance, was whirled around."

"Then God pointed out,--for to Him I cried
In that terrible moment of need,--
A craggy re...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Marriage Of Geraint

...
No hand but hers, should make your Enid burst 
Sunlike from cloud--and likewise thought perhaps, 
That service done so graciously would bind 
The two together; fain I would the two 
Should love each other: how can Enid find 
A nobler friend? Another thought was mine; 
I came among you here so suddenly, 
That though her gentle presence at the lists 
Might well have served for proof that I was loved, 
I doubted whether daughter's tenderness, 
Or easy nature, might not let itse...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

...Up to the Moon is cast--

If he may know which way to go;
For she guides him smooth or grim.
See, brother, see! how graciously
She looketh down on him.'

First Voice

'But why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?'

Second Voice
'The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.

Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!
Or we shall be belated:
For slow and slow that ship will go,
When the Mariner's trance is abated.'

I woke, and we were...Read more of this...
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Transcription Of Organ Music

...lright, and serves my phonograph now...

 The closet door is open for me, where I left it,
since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
 The kitchen has no door, the hole there will 
admit me should I wish to enter the kitchen.
 I remember when I first got laid, H.P. gra-
ciously took my cherry, I sat on the docks of Prov-
incetown, age 23, joyful, elevated in hope with the
Father, the door to the womb wasopen to admit me
if I wished to enter.

 There are unused elect...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

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