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Famous Perilously Poems by Famous Poets

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...nyieldingly, 
The monk within the cassock to the man 
Within the monk, they called it heresy. 

And when he made so perilously bold 
As to be scattered forth in black and white,
Good fathers looked askance at him and rolled 
Their inward eyes in anguish and affright; 
There were some of them did shake at what was told, 
And they shook best who knew that he was right....Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...e feast; 
And answered with such craft as women use, 
Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance 
That breaks upon them perilously, and said: 

'Earl, if you love me as in former years, 
And do not practise on me, come with morn, 
And snatch me from him as by violence; 
Leave me tonight: I am weary to the death.' 

Low at leave-taking, with his brandished plume 
Brushing his instep, bowed the all-amorous Earl, 
And the stout Prince bad him a loud good-night. 
He movin...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...the choiring spheres.
The mighty earth grows faint and reels
Beneath your thundering wagon wheels.
How keenly, perilously sweet
To cling upon that swaying seat!
How happy she who by your side
May share the splendors of that ride!
Ah, if you will not take my hand
And bear me off across the land,
Then, traveller from Arcady,
Remain awhile and comfort me.
What other maiden can you find
So young and delicate and kind?"
Her lips' remark was: "Oh, you kid!"
Her soul sp...Read more of this...
by Kilmer, Joyce
...nd of an old song, 
Triumphant, love-remembered murmurings 
Of what for passion’s innocence had been 
Too mightily, too perilously hers,
Ever to be reclaimed and realized 
Until today. Today she could throw off 
The burden that had held her down so long, 
And she could stand upright, and she could see 
The way to take, with eyes that had in them
No gleam but of the spirit. Day or night, 
No matter; she could see what was to see— 
All that had been till now shut out fr...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
  Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
  Out of the window perilously spread
  Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
  On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
  Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
  I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
  Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—
  I too awaited the expected guest.                                       230
  He, the young...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)



...en and women, the strange trees, 
Herbs, and those things so like to souls, the beasts. 
My wilful senses will keep perilously 
Employed with these my brain, and weary it 
Still to be asking. But on the high seas 
Such throng'd reality is left behind, -- 
Only vast air and water, and the hue 
That always seems like special news of God. 
Surely 'tis half way to eternity 
To go where only size and colour live; 
And I could purify my mind from all 
Worldly amazement ...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles
...a,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest -
I too awaited the expected guest. 
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with ...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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