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Famous Overturns Poems by Famous Poets

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...repine, 
But live content, which is the calmest life: 
But pain is perfect misery, the worst 
Of evils, and, excessive, overturns 
All patience. He, who therefore can invent 
With what more forcible we may offend 
Our yet unwounded enemies, or arm 
Ourselves with like defence, to me deserves 
No less than for deliverance what we owe. 
Whereto with look composed Satan replied. 
Not uninvented that, which thou aright 
Believest so main to our success, I bring. 
Which of us who ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John



...d,
Shav'n, and disarm'd among my enemies. 

Chor. Desire of wine and all delicious drinks,
Which many a famous Warriour overturns,
Thou couldst repress, nor did the dancing Rubie
Sparkling; out-pow'rd, the flavor, or the smell,
Or taste that cheers the heart of Gods and men,
Allure thee from the cool Crystalline stream.

Sam. Where ever fountain or fresh current flow'd
Against the Eastern ray, translucent, pure,
With touch aetherial of Heav'ns fiery rod
I drank, from the clea...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...shed the shrunken seas;
The person in the Spanish cape
Tries to sit on Sweeney’s knees

Slips and pulls the table cloth
Overturns a coffee-cup,
Reorganised upon the floor
She yawns and draws a stocking up;

The silent man in mocha brown
Sprawls at the window-sill and gapes;
The waiter brings in oranges
Bananas figs and hothouse grapes;

The silent vertebrate in brown
Contracts and concentrates, withdraws;
Rachel née Rabinovitch
Tears at the grapes with murderous paws;

She an...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles.
But when I go to warm my hands,
My clumsiness overturns the light,
And then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs....Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy
...
 Has now to lowest mire its tall head bowed. 
 The herdsman comes to it to choose the stones 
 To build a hut, and overturns the bones, 
 From which he has just scared a jackal pack, 
 Waiting to gnaw them when he turns his back. 
 Upon this scene the night is doubly night, 
 And the lone passer vainly strains his sight, 
 Musing: Was Belus not buried near this spot? 
 The royal resting-place is now forgot. 
 
 THE EIGHTH SPHINX. 
 
 The inmates of the Pyramids...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor



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