Famous Inducing Poems by Famous Poets

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(Greek Title)

...ly, 
 Like one whom reveries numb. 

How much of consciousness informs Thy will 
 Thy biddings, as if blind, 
 Of death-inducing kind, 
Nought shows to us ephemeral ones who fill 
 But moments in Thy mind. 

Perhaps Thy ancient rote-restricted ways 
 Thy ripening rule transcends; 
 That listless effort tends 
To grow percipient with advance of days, 
 And with percipience mends. 

For, in unwonted purlieus, far and nigh, 
 At whiles or short or long, 
 May be discerned a wron...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


Original Preface

...failure 
in which does not necessarily imply disgrace, and which, by leading 
the way, may perhaps become the means of inducing some abler and 
more worthy (but not more earnest) labourer to enter upon the same 
field, the riches of which will remain unaltered and undiminished 
in value, even although they may be for the moment tarnished by 
the hands of the less skilful workman who first endeavours to transplant 
them to a foreign soil....Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Paradise Lost: Book 06

...xious to be pained 
By wound, though from their place by violence moved, 
Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven 
Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed, 
And silence on the odious din of war: 
Under her cloudy covert both retired, 
Victor and vanquished: On the foughten field 
Michael and his Angels prevalent 
Encamping, placed in guard their watches round, 
Cherubick waving fires: On the other part, 
Satan with his rebellious disappeared, 
Far in the dark dislodged...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

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