Famous Incidents Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Larkin, Philip
...ow
Black-gowned, unbreakfasted, and still half-tight
We used to stand before that desk, to give
'Our version' of 'these incidents last night'?
I try the door of where I used to live:
Locked. The lawn spreads dazzlingly wide.
A known bell chimes. I catch my train, ignored.
Canal and clouds and colleges subside
Slowly from view. But Dockery, good Lord,
Anyone up today must have been born
In '43, when I was twenty-one.
If he was younger, did he get this ...Read more of this...
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von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...ompanied the First Edition. At the
time of its publication, comparatively little was known in this
country of the incidents of his career, and my sketch was avowedly
written as a temporary stop-gap, as it were, pending the production
of some work really deserving the tittle of a life of Goethe. Not
to mention other contributions to the literature of the subject,
Mr. Lewis's important volumes give the English reader all the information
he is likely to requir...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...The incidents of love
Are more than its Events --
Investment's best Expositor
Is the minute Per Cents --...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
...male.
Thus have I quit* the Miller in my tale. *made myself quits with
Notes to the Reeve's Tale
1. The incidents of this tale were much relished in the Middle
Ages, and are found under various forms. Boccaccio has told
them in the ninth day of his "Decameron".
2. Camuse: flat; French "camuse", snub-nosed.
3. Gite: gown or coat; French "jupe."
4. Soler Hall: the hall or college at Cambridge with the gallery
or upper storey; suppo...Read more of this...
by
Taylor, Edward
...All night a door floated down the river.
It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure
from its former life, like the time the lovers
leaned against it kissing for hours
and whispering those famous words.
Later, there were harsh words and a shoe
was thrown and the door was slammed.
Comings and goings by the thousands,
the early mornings and late nights, years, years.
O they've got big plans, they'll make a bun...Read more of this...
by
Tate, James
...All night a door floated down the river.
It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure
from its former life, like the time the lovers
leaned against it kissing for hours
and whispering those famous words.
Later, there were harsh words and a shoe
was thrown and the door was slammed.
Comings and goings by the thousands,
the early mornings and late nights, years, years.
O they've got big plans, they'll make a bun...Read more of this...
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