Famous Meditates Poems by Famous Poets

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Absalom And Achitophel

...isguises of your arts,
And marks your progress in the people's hearts.
Though now his mighty soul in grief contains,
He meditates revenge who least complains;
And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
Or sleep-dissembling, while he waits his prey,
His fearless foes within his distance draws;
Constrains his roaring and contracts his paws:
Till at the last, his time for fury found,
He shoots with sudden vengeance from the ground:
The prostrate vulgar, passes o'er, and spares;
But...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John


Last Instructions to a Painter

...er men and well foreseen in chance 
In Holland theirs had lodged before, and France. 
Whitehall's unsafe; the court all meditates 
To fly to Windsor and mure up the gates. 
Each does the other blame, and all distrust; 
(That Mordaunt, new obliged, would sure be just.) 
Not such a fatal stupefaction reigned 
At London's flame, nor so the court complained. 
The Bloodworth_Chancellor gives, then does recall 
Orders; amazed, at last gives none at all. 

St Alban's writ to, that h...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Sonnet 02

...vain and dull
Whom chance companions of thy way may doom,
Thy mind, of each domestic comfort full,
Turns to itself and meditates on home,
Ah think what Cares must ache within his breast
Who loaths the lingering road, yet has no home of rest!...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert

The Andante of Snakes

...treachery of silence; infinite 

Ancestral angers brood in these dull eyes 
Where the long-lineaged venom of the snake 
Meditates evil; woven intricacies 
Of Oriental arabesque awake, 

Unfold, expand, contract, and raise and sway 
Swoln heart-shaped heads, flattened as by a heel, 
Erect to suck the sunlight from the day, 
And stealthily and gradually reveal 

Dim cabalistic signs of spots and rings 
Among their folds of faded tapestry; 
Then these fat, foul, unbreathing, mov...Read more of this...
by Symons, Arthur

The Rape of the Lock

...Hair.

Th' Adventrous Baron the bright Locks admir'd,
He saw, he wish'd, and to the Prize aspir'd: 
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By Force to ravish, or by Fraud betray;
For when Success a Lover's Toil attends,
Few ask, if Fraud or Force attain'd his Ends.

For this, e're Phoebus rose, he had implor'd
Propitious Heav'n, and ev'ry Pow'r ador'd,
But chiefly Love--to Love an Altar built,
Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt.
There lay three Garters, half a Pair o...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2

...ir.
Th' advent'rous baron the bright locks admir'd;
He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd.
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
For this, ere Phœbus rose, he had implor'd
Propitious Heav'n, and ev'ry pow'r ador'd,
But chiefly love--to love an altar built,
Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt.
There lay three garters, half a p...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

The Rendezvous

...all 
Looks on a world that quavers and complains. 
Hopeless, abandoned, desolate, aghast, 
On modes of violent death he meditates. 
And the tower-clock tolls five, and he admits at last, 
She will not come, the woman that he waits. 


Through the stained rose the winter daylight dies, 
And all the tide of anguish unrepressed 
Swells in his throat and gathers in his eyes; 
He kneels and bows his head upon his breast, 
And feigns a prayer to hide his burning tears, 
While the s...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

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