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Famous Lunge Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Lunge poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous lunge poems. These examples illustrate what a famous lunge poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)
...s in a wind-gust 
broken by the wind; calculating wings set above 
the field of waves breaking. 
Go to sleep to the lunge between foam-crests, 
refuse churned in the recoil. Food! Food! 
Offal! Offal! that holds them in the air, wave-white 
for the one purpose, feather upon feather, the wild 
chill in their eyes, the hoarseness in their voices— 
sleep, sleep . . . 
Gentlefooted crowds are treading out your lullaby. 
Their arms nudge, they brush shoulde...Read more of this...



by Carman, Bliss
...his gabbling parrot-talk has neither trend, 
Beginning, nor end. 


A prince of madness too, I'd cry, "A rat!" 
And lunge thereat,— 
Let out at one swift thrust 
The cunning arch-delusion of the dust 
I so mistrust, 


But that I fear I should disclose a face 
Wearing the trace 
Of my own human guise, 
Piteous, unharmful, loving, sad, and wise 
With the speaking eyes. 


I would the house were rid of his grim pranks, 
Moaning from banks 
Of pine trees in the moon, 
St...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...shaped in figures assertive for a frieze in a child’s room.
Both 1 and 7 are straightforward, military, filled with lunge and attack, erect in shoulder-straps.
The 6 and 9 salute as dancing sisters, elder and younger, and 2 is a trapeze actor swinging to handclaps.
All the numbers are well-born, only 3 has a hump on its back and 8 is knock-kneed.
The child Margaret kisses all once and gives two kisses to 3 and 8.
(Each number is a bran-new rag doll … O in ...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...STROLLING along
By the teeming docks,
I watch the ships put out.
Black ships that heave and lunge
And move like mastodons
Arising from lethargic sleep.

The fathomed harbor
Calls them not nor dares
Them to a strain of action,
But outward, on and outward,
Sounding low-reverberating calls,
Shaggy in the half-lit distance,
They pass the pointed headland,
View the wide, far-lifting wilderness
And leap with cumulative speed
To test the challenge of ...Read more of this...

by Nemerov, Howard
...y
From spin, so that its hollow spaces seem
Solids of light, until it wobbles and
Begins to whine, and then with an odd lunge
Eccentric and reckless, it skids away
And drops dead into its own skeleton....Read more of this...



by Kipling, Rudyard
...e may leech--
Even so with Cobra-speech.
Open talk shall call to thee
Strength, whose mate is Courtesy.
Send no lunge beyond thy length.
Lend no rotten bough thy strength.
Gauge thy gape with buck or goat,
Lest thine eye should choke thy throat.
After gorging, wouldst thou sleep ?
Look thy den be hid and deep,
Lest a wrong, by thee forgot,
Draw thy killer to the spot.
East and West and North and South,
Wash thy hide and close thy mouth.
(Pit and ri...Read more of this...

by Ginsberg, Allen
...one sticking out, your sword stuck throbbing in me
please master pull out and slowly roll onto the bottom
please master lunge it again, and withdraw the tip
please please master **** me again with your self, please **** me Please
Master drive down till it hurts me the softness the
Softness please master make love to my ass, give body to center, & **** me
 for good like a girl,
tenderly clasp me please master I take me to thee,
& drive in my belly your selfsame sweet heat-rood...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...limbs of live-oak, aid me in my frenzied fight;
Strips of iron-wood, scaly blue-gum, writhing redly in my hold;
With my lunge of lurid lances, with my whips that flail the night,
They will burgeon into beauty, they will foliate in gold.
Let me star the dim sierras, stab with light the inland seas;
Roaming wind and roaring darkness! seek no mercy at my hands;
I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies,
I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhousele...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...ims you see 'em fire,
 Crop-headed chaps, their eyes ablaze with strife.
You crawl, you cower; then once again you plunge
 With all your comrades roaring at your heels.
Have at 'em lads! You stab, you jab, you lunge;
 A blaze of glory, then the red world reels.
A crash of triumph, then . . . you're faint a bit . . .
 That cursed puttee! Now to fasten it. . . .

Well, that's the charge. And now I'm here alone.
 I've b...Read more of this...

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