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Famous Lexicons Poems by Famous Poets

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...ou’d pouther’d priestie,
Fu’ lifted up wi’ Hebrew lore,
 And band upon his breastie:
But oh! what signifies to you
 His lexicons and grammars;
The feeling heart’s the royal blue,
 And that’s wi’ Willie Chalmers.


Some gapin’, glowrin’ countra laird
 May warsle for your favour;
May claw his lug, and straik his beard,
 And hoast up some palaver:
My bonie maid, before ye wed
 Sic clumsy-witted hammers,
Seek Heaven for help, and barefit skelp
 Awa wi’ Willie Chalmers.


Forgive ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...h her, and with the grace that had been hers; 
They were eternal words, and they diffused
A flame of meaning that men’s lexicons 
Had never kindled; they were choral words 
That harmonized with love’s enduring chords 
Like wisdom with release; triumphant words 
That rang like elemental orisons
Through ages out of ages; words that fed 
Love’s hunger in the spirit; words that smote; 
Thrilled words that echoed, and barbed words that clung;— 
And every one of them was like a fri...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ity records
Too vast an answer for the time-born words 
We spell, whereof so many are dead that once 
In our capricious lexicons 
Were so alive and final, hear no more 
The Word itself, the living word
That none alive has ever heard 
Or ever spelt, 
And few have ever felt 
Without the fears and old surrenderings 
And terrors that began
When Death let fall a feather from his wings 
And humbled the first man? 
Because the weight of our humility, 
Wherefrom we gain 
A little wis...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
..."Was not" was all the Statement.
The Unpretension stuns --
Perhaps -- the Comprehension --
They wore no Lexicons --

But lest our Speculation
In inanition die
Because "God took him" mention --
That was Philology --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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