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Famous In Hiding Poems by Famous Poets

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by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...ok;
And I said to myself, 'There is no other thing
But a babe that could bring about all this, and so
That one thing is in hiding somewhere, I know.'

I stayed but a moment, and saw nothing more,
And heard not a sound, yet I know I was right;
What else could the shoe mean that lay on the floor,
The book and the toy, and the faces so bright;
And what made the husband as still as a mouse?
I am sure, very sure, there's a babe in that house....Read more of this...



by Donne, John
...d motion 
Which now within 
Reason doth win 15 
Redoubled by her secret notion: 
Like rich men that take pleasure 
In hiding more than handling treasure. 

By Absence this good means I gain  
That I can catch her 20 
Where none can watch her  
In some close corner of my brain: 
There I embrace and kiss her  
And so enjoy her and none miss her. ...Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert
...oking from the cliffs
An emptiness flayed to the very stone.
I found no people that dared show themselves,
None not in hiding from the outward eye.
The time was autumn, but how anyone
could tell the time of year when every tree
That could have dropped a leaf was down itself
And nothing but the stump of it was left
Now bringing out its rings in sugar of pitch;
And every tree up stood a rotting trunk
Without a single leaf to spend on autumn,
Or branch to whistle after w...Read more of this...

by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...rth on swing,
 As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
 Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
 Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

 No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
 Fall, gall th...Read more of this...

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