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Famous Not Able Poems by Famous Poets

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by Wei, Wang
...ingceltis goldenrain shine empty bend 
Fresh and green ripple ripples ripples 
Secret enter Shang hill road 
Woodcutter not able know 


Wingceltis and goldenrain shine at the empty bend, 
Fresh and green, rippling ever onward. 
A secret road leads up to Shangshan hill, 
Even the woodcutter does not know....Read more of this...



by Morris, William
...ne great tapers with sick flame.

"And thereupon Lucius, the Emperor,
Lay royal-robed, but stone-cold now and dead,
Not able to hold sword or sceptre more,
But not quite grim; because his cloven head

"Bore no marks now of Launcelot's bitter sword,
Being by embalmers deftly solder'd up;
So still it seem'd the face of a great lord,
Being mended as a craftsman mends a cup.

"Also the heralds sung rejoicingly
To their long trumpets; 'Fallen under shield,
Here lieth Luciu...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...
In magice print they packed their best:
Come - try their wisdom to digest. . . ."

Said I: "Alas! I am not able;
I lay my cards upon the table,
And with deep shame and blame avow
I am too old to read you now;
So I will lock you in glass cases
And shun your sad, reproachful faces."

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My library is noble planned,
Yet in it desolate I stand;
And though my thousand books I prize,
Feeling a witling in their eyes,
I turn from them in wearines...Read more of this...

by Spenser, Edmund
...shepherds' shade, 
Uprising by degrees, grew to such height, 
That queen of land and sea herself she made. 
At last not able to bear so great weight. 
Her power dispers'd, through all the world did vade; 
To show that all in th' end to nought shall fade. 


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The same which Pyrrhus, and the puissance 
Of Afric could not tame, that same brave city, 
Which with stout courage arm'd against mischance, 
Sustain'd the shock of common enmity; 
Long as her ship tossed ...Read more of this...

by Morris, William
...what if Palomydes also ride,
And over many a mountain and bare heath
Follow the questing beast with none beside?
Is he not able still to hold his breath

With thoughts of Iseult? doth he not grow pale
With weary striving, to seem best of all
To her, "as she is best," he saith? to fail
Is nothing to him, he can never fall.

For unto such a man love-sorrow is
So dear a thing unto his constant heart,
That even if he never win one kiss,
Or touch from Iseult, it will never pa...Read more of this...



by McGonagall, William Topaz
...r> 

But alas! they were not proof against the weapons of the foe,
Which filled their hearts with despair and woe;
And, not able to maintain their close form, they were beaten back,
And Lennox and Argyle, their leaders, were slain, alack! 

And the field became so slippery with blood they could scarcely stand,
But in their stocking-feet they fought hand to hand,
And on both sides men fell like wheat before the mower,
While the cheers from both armies made a hideous roar. ...Read more of this...

by Lear, Edward
....
Pray, let us take the air!"
Said the table to the chair.

Said the chair unto the table,
"Now you know we are not able!
How foolishly you talk
When you know we cannot walk!"
Said the table with a sigh,
"It can do no harm to try.
I've as many legs as you.
Why can't we walk on two?"

So they both went slowly down,
And walked about the town,
With a cheerful bumpy sound
As they toddled all around.
And everybody cried
As they ran up to their side
"See! The ta...Read more of this...

by Stojanovic, Dejan
...d neutrons 

Flying, fighting, competing 
How do ideas come to life? 
That was another hard question. 

I was not able to find out anything about anything, 
Except that I was alive and felt alive and yet felt dead as well; 
I watched rain, fog, horses, birds, and trees, and I watched the blue; 

I really loved watching the blue every day; 
You loved the same, although maybe for different reasons; 
Maybe we loved each other for different reasons too. 

Di...Read more of this...

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