Famous Gratify Poems by Famous Poets

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Amanda Barker

...the village where I lived 
That Henry loved me with a husband's love, 
But I proclaim from the dust 
That he slew me to gratify his hatred....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee


Apple-Pie and Cheese

...we stand,
Partaking thrice per diem
Of their fulness out of hand;
No enervating fashion
Shall cheat us of our right
To gratify our passion
With a mouthful at a bite!
We'll cut it square or bias,
Or any way we please,
And faith shall justify us
When we carve our pie and cheese!

De gustibus, 't is stated,
Non disputandum est.
Which meaneth, when translated,
That all is for the best.
So let the foolish choose 'em
The vapid sweets of sin,
I will not disabuse 'em
Of the heresy t...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

...ot hard to find,
But each man's secret standard in his mind,
That casting weight pride adds to emptiness,
This, who can gratify? for who can guess?
The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown,
Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown,
Just writes to make his barrenness appear,
And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year:
He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft,
Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left:
And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,
M...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Last night that idol who enchants my heart,

...nts my heart,
With true desire to elevate my heart,
Gave me his cup to drink; when I refused,
He said, «Oh, drink to gratify my heart!»...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

Ode Written On The First Of January

...
That Night shall shadow soon thy summer sun?
That swift the stream of Years
Rolls to Eternity?

If thou hast wealth to gratify each wish,
If Power be thine, remember what thou art--
Remember thou art Man,
And Death thine heritage!

Hast thou known Love? does Beauty's better sun
Cheer thy fond heart with no capricious smile,
Her eye all eloquence,
Her voice all harmony?

Oh state of happiness! hark how the gale
Moans deep and hollow o'er the leafless grove!
Winter is dark and...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert


Paradise Lost: Book 10

...is adherents, that with so much ease 
I suffer them to enter and possess 
A place so heavenly; and, conniving, seem 
To gratify my scornful enemies, 
That laugh, as if, transported with some fit 
Of passion, I to them had quitted all, 
At random yielded up to their misrule; 
And know not that I called, and drew them thither, 
My Hell-hounds, to lick up the draff and filth 
Which Man's polluting sin with taint hath shed 
On what was pure; til, crammed and gorged, nigh burst 
W...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Princess (part 5)

...the rest, 
Our own detention, why, the causes weighed, 
Fatherly fears--you used us courteously-- 
We would do much to gratify your Prince-- 
We pardon it; and for your ingress here 
Upon the skirt and fringe of our fair land, 
you did but come as goblins in the night, 
Nor in the furrow broke the ploughman's head, 
Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking-maid, 
Nor robbed the farmer of his bowl of cream: 
But let your Prince (our royal word upon it, 
He comes back safe...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Rape of the Lock

...pirits blaze.
From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors glide,
And China's Earth receives the smoking Tyde. 
At once they gratify their Scent and Taste,
While frequent Cups prolong the rich Repast.
Strait hover round the Fair her Airy Band;
Some, as she sip'd, the fuming Liquor fann'd,
Some o'er her Lap their careful Plumes display'd,
Trembling, and conscious of the rich Brocade.
Coffee, (which makes the Politician wise,
And see thro' all things with his half shut Eyes)
Sent up...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3

...ts blaze.
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
At once they gratify their scent and taste,
And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Straight hover round the fair her airy band;
Some, as she sipp'd, the fuming liquor fann'd,
Some o'er her lap their careful plumes display'd,
Trembling, and conscious of the rich brocade.
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eye...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Transcription Of Organ Music

...ay
he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of
the Creator
 And the Creator gave me a shot of his presence
to gratify my wish, so as not to cheat me of my yearning
for him.

 Berkeley, September 8, 1955...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

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