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Famous Outgrows Poems by Famous Poets

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...y; mean's no name for it. 
I just found what the matter was to-night: 
I've been a-choking like a nursery tree 
When it outgrows the wire band of its name tag. 
I blamed it on the hot spell we've been having. 
'Twas nothing but my foolish hanging back, 
Not liking to own up I'd grown a size. 
Number eighteen this is. What size do you wear?" 
The Doctor caught his throat convulsively. 
"Oh--ah--fourteen--fourteen." 
"Fourteen! You say so! 
I can remember when I wore fourteen. ...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert



...f alternation heed.

How can we ask the human heart to stay, 
Content with fancies of Youth’s earliest hours? 
The year outgrows the violets of May, 
Although, maybe, there are no fairer flowers.

And life may hold no sweeter love than this, 
Which lies so cold, so voiceless, and so dumb, 
And will I miss it, dear? Why, yes, we miss
The violets always – till the roses come!...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...ar.

In the end the early departed have no longer
need of us. One is gently weaned from things
of this world as a child outgrows the need
of its mother's breast. But we who have need 
of those great mysteries, we for whom grief is
so often the source of spiritual growth,
could we exist without them?
Is the legend vain that tells of music's beginning
in the midst of the mourning for Linos?
the daring first sounds of song piercing
the barren numbness, and how in that stunned sp...Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria
...e 
Though the loud world proclaim their enmity-- 

Of toil unsever'd from tranquility! 
Of labor, that in lasting fruit outgrows 
Far noisier schemes, accomplish'd in repose, 
Too great for haste, too high for rivalry. 

Yes, while on earth a thousand discords ring, 
Man's fitful uproar mingling with his toil, 
Still do thy sleepless ministers move on, 

Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting; 
Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil, 
Laborers that shall not fail, ...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

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