Famous Incalculable Poems by Famous Poets

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As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free

...one! 
World of the Soul—born by the world of the real alone—led to identity, body, by
 it
 alone;
Yet in beginning only—incalculable masses of composite, precious materials, 
By history’s cycles forwarded—by every nation, language, hither sent, 
Ready, collected here—a freer, vast, electric World, to be constructed here, 
(The true New World—the world of orbic Science, Morals, Literatures to come,) 
Thou Wonder World, yet undefined, unform’d—neither do I define thee;
How can ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Baby Tortoise

...ur so tiny eye,
Challenger.

Nay, tiny shell-bird,
What a huge vast inanimate it is, that you must row against,
What an incalculable inertia.

Challenger,
Little Ulysses, fore-runner,
No bigger than my thumb-nail,
Buon viaggio.

All animate creation on your shoulder,
Set forth, little Titan, under your battle-shield.

The ponderous, preponderate,
Inanimate universe;
And you are slowly moving, pioneer, you alone.

How vivid your travelling seems now, in the troubled sunshine,
...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Clover

...mits bend, and spreads
Into a curious-hill'd and curious-valley'd Vast,
Endless before, behind, around; which seems
Th' incalculable Up-and-Down of Time
Made plain before mine eyes. The clover-stems
Still cover all the space; but now they bear,
For clover-blooms, fair, stately heads of men
With poets' faces heartsome, dear and pale --
Sweet visages of all the souls of time
Whose loving service to the world has been
In the artist's way expressed and bodied. Oh,
In arms' reach,...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

Corn

...rade, for ever rise and fall
With alternation whimsical,
Enduring scarce a day,
Then swept away
By swift engulfments of incalculable tides
Whereon capricious Commerce rides.
Look, thou substantial spirit of content!
Across this little vale, thy continent,
To where, beyond the mouldering mill,
Yon old deserted Georgian hill
Bares to the sun his piteous aged crest
And seamy breast,
By restless-hearted children left to lie
Untended there beneath the heedless sky,
As barbarous fo...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

Drum-Taps

...ars as a pageant—till unawares, the Lady of this teeming and turbulent city, 
Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth, 
With her million children around her—suddenly, 
At dead of night, at news from the south,
Incens’d, struck with clench’d hand the pavement. 

A shock electric—the night sustain’d it; 
Till with ominous hum, our hive at day-break pour’d out its myriads. 

From the houses then, and the workshops, and through all the doorways, 
Leapt they ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Live

...'t break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar.
Even with the witches' gymnastics
they trust my incalculable city,
my corruptible bed.

O dearest three,
I make a soft reply.
The witch comes on
and you paint her pink.
I come with kisses in my hood
and the sun, the smart one,
rolling in my arms.
So I say Live
and turn my shadow three times round
to feed our puppies as they come,
the eight Dalmatians we didn't drown,
despite the warnings: The abort! The d...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Sing of the Banner at Day-Break

...ird, and look down as from
 a
 height;

I do not deny the precious results of peace—I see populous cities, with wealth
 incalculable;
I see numberless farms—I see the farmers working in their fields or barns; 
I see mechanics working—I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or
 finish’d; 
I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks, drawn by the locomotives; 
I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans; 
I see far in the west t...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of the Exposition

...less freight-trains, and thy bulging store-houses, 
The grapes that ripen on thy vines—the apples in thy orchards, 
Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes—thy coal—thy gold and silver, 
The inexhaustible iron in thy mines.

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All thine, O sacred Union! 
Ship, farm, shop, barns, factories, mines, 
City and State—North, South, item and aggregate, 
We dedicate, dread Mother, all to thee! 

Protectress absolute, thou! Bulwark of all!
For well we know that while thou gives...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Indian Gipsy

...the caves of sleep. 


Time's river winds in foaming centuries 
Its changing, swift, irrevocable course 
To far off and incalculable seas; 
She is twin-born with primal mysteries, 
And drinks of life at Time's forgotten source...Read more of this...
by Naidu, Sarojini

Three Women

...anges, the heel-hung pigs.
She is deferring to reality.
It is I. It is I--
Tasting the bitterness between my teeth.
The incalculable malice of the everyday.

FIRST VOICE:
How long can I be a wall, keeping the wind off?
How long can I be
Gentling the sun with the shade of my hand,
Intercepting the blue bolts of a cold moon?
The voices of loneliness, the voices of sorrow
Lap at my back ineluctably.
How shall it soften them, this little lullaby?

How long can I be a wall around ...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

Two Quatrains

...I

As eons of incalculable strife 
Are in the vision of one moment caught, 
So are the common, concrete things of life 
Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought. 


II

We shriek to live, but no man ever lives
Till he has rid the ghost of human breath; 
We dream to die, but no man ever dies 
Till he has quit the road that runs to death....Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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