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Famous Institutes Poems by Famous Poets

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...solemn man who brought him fruits
Thanked him; and then inquired about his soul.
Now, he will spend a few sick years in Institutes,
And do what things the rules consider wise,
And take whatever pity they may dole.
To-night he noticed how the women's eyes
Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.
How cold and late it is! Why don't they come
And put him into bed? Why don't they come?...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred



...n the writer or the parson.
I can spare the college-bell,
And the learned lecture well.
Spare the clergy and libraries,
Institutes and dictionaries,
For the hardy English root
Thrives here unvalued underfoot.
Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
Squandering your unquoted mirth,
Which keeps the ground and never soars,
While Jake retorts and Reuben roars,
Tough and screaming as birch-bark,
Goes like bullet to its mark,
While the solid curse and jeer
Never balk the waiting ear:
To s...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...ine own. 
Far off from men I built a fold for them: 
I stored it full of rich memorial: 
I fenced it round with gallant institutes, 
And biting laws to scare the beasts of prey 
And prospered; till a rout of saucy boys 
Brake on us at our books, and marred our peace, 
Masked like our maids, blustering I know not what 
Of insolence and love, some pretext held 
Of baby troth, invalid, since my will 
Sealed not the bond--the striplings! for their sport!-- 
I tamed my leopards: s...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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