Famous Immovable Poems by Famous Poets

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A Forest Hymn

...shades, 
Of thy perfections. Grandeur, strength, and grace 
Are here to speak of thee. This mighty oak--- 
By whose immovable stem I stand and seem 
Almost annihilated---not a prince, 
In all that proud old world beyond the deep, 
E'er wore his crown as lofty as he 
Wears the green coronal of leaves with which 
Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root 
Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare 
Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower 
With scented breat...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen


A Forest Hymn

...shades  
Of thy perfections. Grandeur strength and grace 55 
Are here to speak of thee. This mighty oak ¡ª 
By whose immovable stem I stand and seem 
Almost annihilated¡ªnot a prince  
In all that proud old world beyond the deep  
E'er wore his crown as loftily as he 60 
Wears the green coronal of leaves with which 
Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root 
Is beauty such as blooms not in the glare 
Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower  
With scented b...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...
No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, 
With war’s flames, and the lambent lightnings playing,
And your port immovable where you stand; 
With still the inextinguishable glance, and the clench’d and lifted fist, 
And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner, utterly crush’d beneath
 you; 
The menacing, arrogant one, that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the
 murderous knife; 
—Lo! the wide swelling one, the braggart, that would yes...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Avons Harvest

...awn,’ 
I reasoned, ‘there will be a difference here. 
Therefore it may as well be done outside.’
And then I found I was immovable, 
As I had been before; and a dead sweat 
Rolled out of me as I remembered him 
When I had seen him leaving me at school. 
‘I shall know where you are until you die,’
Were the last words that I had heard him say; 
And there he was. Now I could see his face, 
And all the sad, malignant desperation 
That was drawn on it after I had struck him, 
And o...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Bridge Over The Aire Book 2

...m the parting in the cloud

I am the leaves of spring.





28



Here is the last remnant of Hunslet’s goodsyard,

The immovable buttresses in timber and stone,

The bridge and the rails are gone but still seven

Arches stand like Rome’s seven hills, nothing can

Shift them, there is no road beyond the barbed-wire

Fence, they are a shelter for memory and Margaret and me

The Hunslet-haven-heaven of our love to be

I taste the mist in the morning

Utterly alone in this deser...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry


I Do I Will I Have

...why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
the immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and
combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
particularly if he has income and she is pattable....Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

Paradise Lost: Book 02

...remes by change more fierce, 
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine 
Immovable, infixed, and frozen round 
Periods of time,--thence hurried back to fire. 
They ferry over this Lethean sound 
Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment, 
And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach 
The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose 
In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe, 
All in one moment, and so near the brink; 
But Fate with...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Poetry

...wn or in quest of something to

eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
 under
 a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
 feels a
 flea, the base-
 ball fan, the statistician--
 nor is it valid
 to discriminate against 'business documents and

school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must
 make a distinction
 however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
 result is not poetry,
 nor till the poets amo...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne

Requiem

...ow hatefully the door slammed and an old woman
Howled like a wounded beast.
Let the thawing ice flow like tears
From my immovable bronze eyelids
And let the prison dove coo in the distance
While ships sail quietly along the river.
[March 1940. Fontannyi Dom]

FOOTNOTES

1 An elite guard which rose up in rebellion
 against Peter the Great in 1698. Most were either
 executed or exiled.
2 The imperial summer residence outside St
 Petersburg where Ahmatova spent her early years.
...Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

The Building of the Ship

...the movement of the whole; 
And near it the anchor, whose giant hand 
Would reach down and grapple with the land, 
And immovable and fast 
Hold the great ship against the bellowing blast! 
And at the bows an image stood, 
By a cunning artist carved in wood, 
With robes of white, that far behind 
Seemed to be fluttering in the wind. 
It was not shaped in a classic mould, 
Not like a Nymph or Goddess of old, 
Or Naiad rising from the water, 
But modelled from the Master's daug...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Grey-Eyed King

...Hail! Hail to thee, o, immovable pain!
The young grey-eyed king had been yesterday slain.

This autumnal evening was stuffy and red.
My husband, returning, had quietly said,

"He'd left for his hunting; they carried him home;
They'd found him under the old oak's dome.

I pity the queen. He, so young, past away!...
During one night her black hair turned to grey."

He fo...Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

The Lifeguard

...down in the cold,
Wide-eyed, contained, and alone
Among the weeds,

And my fingertips turned into stone
From clutching immovable blackness.
Time after time I leapt upward
Exploding in breath, and fell back
From the change in the children's faces
At my defeat.

Beneath them I swam to the boathouse
With only my life in my arms
To wait for the lake to shine back
At the risen moon with such power
That my steps on the light of the ripples
Might be sustained.

Beneath me is nothin...Read more of this...
by Dickey, James

The Man Against the Sky

...To failure or to glory, and least of all
For such a stale, flamboyant miracle; 
He may have been the prophet of an art 
Immovable to old idolatries; 
He may have been a player without a part, 
Annoyed that even the sun should have the skies
For such a flaming way to advertise; 
He may have been a painter sick at heart 
With Nature’s toiling for a new surprise; 
He may have been a cynic, who now, for all 
Of anything divine that his effete
Negation may have tasted, 
Saw truth ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Phases Of The Moon

...selves,
Caught up in contemplation, the mind's eye
Fixed upon images that once were thought;
For separate, perfect, and immovable
Images can break the solitude
Of lovely, satisfied, indifferent eyes.

 And thereupon with aged, high-pitched voice
 Aherne laughed, thinking of the man within,
 His sleepless candle and lahorious pen.

Robartes. And after that the crumbling of the moon.
The soul remembering its loneliness
Shudders in many cradles; all is changed,
It would be the w...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II

...te
Shaking and waving, vapour vapour chased,
While high frail cloudlets, fed with a green light,
Like drifts of leaves, immovable and bright,
Hung in the passionate dawn. He slowly turned:
A demon's leisure: eyes, first white, now burned
Like wings of kingfishers; and he arose
Barking. We trampled up and down with blows
Of sword and brazen battle-axe, while day
Gave to high noon and noon to night gave way;
And when he knew the sword of Manannan
Amid the shades of night, he ch...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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