Famous Horrify Poems by Famous Poets

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As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...any part of myself, 
Not any part of America, good or bad, 
Not the promulgation of Liberty—not to cheer up slaves and horrify foreign despots, 
Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
Not to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the sexes, 
Not to justify science, nor the march of equality, 
Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn beloved of time. 

I swear I am for those that have never been master’d! 
For men and women whose tempers have never been master’d,...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Aubade

...ere and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
-- The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused -- nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be a...Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

Giant Snail

..., much less dream of climbing them. 
 That toad was too big, too, like me. His eyes beseeched my 
love. Our proportions horrify our neighbors. 
 Rest a minute; relax. Flattened to the ground, my body is like 
a pallid, decomposing leaf. What's that tapping on my shell? 
Nothing. Let's go on. 
 My sides move in rhythmic waves, just off the ground, from 
front to back, the wake of a ship, wax-white water, or a slowly 
melting floe. I am cold, cold, cold as ice. My blind, white ...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth

The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator

...the affair is always death. 
She's my workshop. Slippery eye, 
out of the tribe of myself my breath 
finds you gone. I horrify 
those who stand by. I am fed. 
At night, alone, I marry the bed. 
Finger to finger, now she's mine. 
She's not too far. She's my encounter. 
I beat her like a bell. I recline 
in the bower where you used to mount her. 
You borrowed me on the flowered spread. 
At night, alone, I marry the bed. 
Take for instance this night, my love, 
that every singl...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

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