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Famous Ounces Poems by Famous Poets

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...ut brave Rocinante.
I know what it means to be longing for something,
but if your heart weighs only a pound and sixteen ounces,
there's no sense, my Don, in fighting these senseless windmills.

But you are right, of course, Dulcinea is your woman,
the most beautiful in the world;
I'm sure you'll shout this fact
at the face of street-traders;
but they'll pull you down from your horse
and beat you up.
But you, the unbeatable knight of our curse,
will continue to glow behind the...Read more of this...
by Hikmet, Nazim



...chase 
In wood or wilderness, forest or den; 
Sporting the lion ramped, and in his paw 
Dandled the kid; bears, tigers, ounces, pards, 
Gambolled before them; the unwieldy elephant, 
To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreathed 
His?kithetmroboscis; close the serpent sly, 
Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine 
His braided train, and of his fatal guile 
Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass 
Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat, 
Or bedward ruminating; fo...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...gh a coarse

 cloth, and put to every gallon of juice

 a pound of anchovies, and the same

 quantity of bay-salt, four ounces of

 Jamaica pepper, two of long and two of

 black pepper; of mace, cloves, and

 ginger, each an ounce, and a stick of

 horseradish. Boil all together till

 reduced to half the quantity, and then

 put it into a pot. When it is cold, bottle

 it close, and in three months it will be

 fit for use.



 And Trout Fishing in America and Maria Callas ...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard
...alf so great a soun'.
This Pardoner had hair as yellow as wax,
But smooth it hung, as doth a strike* of flax: *strip
By ounces hung his lockes that he had,
And therewith he his shoulders oversprad.
Full thin it lay, by culpons* one and one, *locks, shreds
But hood for jollity, he weared none,
For it was trussed up in his wallet.
Him thought he rode all of the *newe get*, *latest fashion*
Dishevel, save his cap, he rode all bare.
Such glaring eyen had he, as an hare.
A ver...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...umns of print appear 
About a mine, and it makes it clear 
That the same is all that one's heart could wish -- 
A dozen ounces to every dish. 
But the reason we print those statements fine 
Is -- the editor's uncle owns the mine." 


The Last Straw 
"A preacher I, and I take my stand 
In pulpit decked with gown and band 
To point the way to a better land. 
With sanctimonious and reverent look 
I read it out of the sacred book 
That he who would open the golden door 
Must give...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



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