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Famous Panics Poems by Famous Poets

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...her. 

Trident slowly forges ahead, 
The fierce whips cut and the spurs are red, 
The pace is undiminished 
Now for the Panics that never fail! 
But many a backer's face grows pale 
As old Commotion swings his tail 
And swerves -- and the Cup is finished. 

* * * * * 

And now in my dream it all comes back: 
I bet my coin on the Sydney crack, 
A million I've won, no question! 
"Give me my money, you hook-nosed hog! 
Give me my money, bookmaking dog!" 
But he disappeared in a ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...h; 
Of those armies so rapid, so wondrous, what saw you to tell us? 
What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, 
Of hard-fought engagements, or sieges tremendous, what deepest remains? 

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O maidens and young men I love, and that love me,
What you ask of my days, those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls; 
Soldier alert I arrive, after a long march, cover’d with sweat and dust; 
In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rus...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt
...by a son of old Panic -- look at his ears and his head -- 
Lop-eared and Roman-nosed, ain't he? -- well, that's how the Panics are bred. 
Gluttonous, ugly and lazy, rough as a tipcart to ride, 
Yet if you offered a sovereign apiece for the hairs on his hide 
That wouldn't buy him, nor twice that; while I've a pound to the good, 
This here old stager stays by me and lives like a thoroughbred should; 
Hunt him away from his bedding, and sit yourself down by the wall, 
Till you ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...fat in jeans, mouths clichés with confidence,
 breaks mother's plates in fights;
Buys when the market is too high, and panics during
 the inevitable descent;
Still, Pop can always tell the subtle difference
 between Pepsi and Coke,
Has defined the darkness of red at dawn, memorized
 the splash of poppies along
Deserted railway tracks, and opposed the war in Vietnam
 months before the students,
Years before the politicians and press; give him
 a minute with a road map
And he ...Read more of this...
by Lehman, David
...ows engrave
Like veinings in a stone,
Breathe in the sunny house
Nightmare of blackened bone,
Cellar and choking cave.

Panics and furies fly
Through our unhurried veins,
Heavenly lights and rains
Purify heart and eye,
Past agonies purify
And lay the sullen dust.
The angers will not away.
We hold our fathers' trust,
Wrong, riches, sorrow and all
Until they topple and fall,
And fallen let in the day....Read more of this...
by Muir, Edwin



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