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Famous In The Nick Of Time Poems by Famous Poets

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...eel the hunger so acutely
that I would rather die than look
into its face?
I kneel once more,
in case mercy should come
in the nick of time....Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne



...f course you take her in your arms
and she turns into a black panther
and bites you to death.

Or perhaps you are saved in the nick of time
and she is tormented by the knowledge of her tendency:
That she daren't hug a man
unless she wants to risk clawing him up.

This puts you both in a difficult position--
panting lovers who are prevented from touching
not by bars but by circumstance:
You have terrible fights and say cruel things
for having the hots does not give you a sweet...Read more of this...
by Field, Edward
...e strangest and sudden your talking recalls; 
Soldier alert I arrive, after a long march, cover’d with sweat and dust; 
In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful
 charge;

Enter the captur’d works.... yet lo! like a swift-running river, they fade; 
Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers’ perils or soldiers’
 joys;
(Both I remember well—many the hardships, few the joys, yet I was content.) 

But in silence, in dreams’...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt
...Now warm with ministerial ire,
Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire,
And on his striding steps attends
His desperate clan of Tory friends.
When sudden met his wrathful eye
A pole ascending through the sky,
Which numerous throngs of whiggish race
Were raising in the market-place.
Not higher school-boy's kites aspire,
Or royal mast, or country spire;
Like ...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John
...t a fesrful scene;
But the exploslon was witnessed by Captain Babby of the ship "Carline,"
Who most fortunately arrived in the nick of time. 

And fourteen additional human beings were saved from the "Kent,"
And they thanked Captain Babby and God, who to them succour sent,
And had saved them from being burnt, and drowned in the briny deep;
And they felt so overjoyed that some of them did weep;
And in the first port in England they landed without delay,
And when their feet tou...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz



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