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Famous Limply Poems by Famous Poets

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...s they faster, faster went,
 It stumbled, sore and spent.

I found it prone upon the way;
 Of life was little token.
As limply in the dust it lay
 I thought its heart was broken:
Then one dim eye it opened and
 It sought to like my hand.

Of course I took it gently up
 And brought it to my wife
Who loves all dogs, and now that pup
 Shares in our happy life:
Yet how I curse the bastards who
 Its good luck never knew!...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William



...llow off,
So let him shoulder my valise;
He tottered with a racking cough
That did not give him any peace.
He lagged so limply in my wake
I made him put the burden down,
Saying: "A taxi I will take,"
And grimly gave him half-a-crown.

Poor devil! I am sure he had
Not eaten anything that day;
His eyes so hungrily were glad,
Although his lips were ashen grey.
He vanished in the callous crowd,
Then when he was no more around,
I lugged my bag and thought aloud:
"I wish I'd given ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...ve departed orwill do, here airless, where
that witchy ball
wanted, fought toward, dreamed of, all a green living
drops limply into one's hands
without pleasure or interest

Figurez-vous, a time swarms when the word
'happy' sheds its whole meaning, like to come and
like for memory too
That morning arrived to Henry as well a great cheque
eaten out already by the Government & State &
other strange matters

Gentle friendly Henry Pussy-cat
smiled into his mirror, a murderer's
(at...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John
...d hat cocked over his ear. 
All his life my father wanted to be bold. 

But the eyes give him away, and the hands 
that limply offer the string of dead perch 
and the bottle of beer. Father, I love you, 
yet how can I say thank you, I who can't hold my liquor either, 
and don't even know the places to fish?...Read more of this...
by Carver, Raymond
...e; there is a chimney, 
askew, but braced with wires, 
and electricity, possibly 
--at least, at the back another wire 
limply leashes the whole affair 
to something off behind the dunes. 
A light to read by--perfect! But--impossible. 
And that day the wind was much too cold 
even to get that far, 
and of course the house was boarded up. 

On the way back our faces froze on the other side. 
The sun came out for just a minute. 
For just a minute, set in their bezels of sand, 
...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth



...Then he broke the seals, and, stern as fate, unfolded the sheets and spread them out. . . .
On his knees by her side he limply sank, peering amazed -- each page was blank.

(For oh, the supremest of our art are the stories we do not dare to tell,
Locked in the silence of the heart, for the awful records of Heav'n and Hell.)
Yet those two in the silence there, seemed less weariful than before.
Hark! a step on the garret stair, a postman knocks at the flimsy door.
"Registered l...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...e grim refrain 
That the thunders uttered: 
All the heavens under cloud -- 
All the sunshine sleeping; 
All the grasses limply bowed 
With their weight of weeping.

Sigh and sigh! and sigh and sigh! 
Never end of sighing; 
Rain and rain for our reply -- 
Hopes half-drowned and dying; 
Peering through the window-pane, 
Naught but endless raining -- 
Endless sighing, and, as vain, 
Endlessly conmplaining.

Shine and shine! and shine and shine! 
Ah! to-day the splendor!-- 
All t...Read more of this...
by Riley, James Whitcomb

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