Famous Pick And Choose Poems by Famous Poets
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...e me a straight look.
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said.
Others can pick and choose if you can't.
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling.
You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.
(And her only thirty-one.)
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.
(She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.) 160...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...d Nan,
A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy;
One's had her fill of lovers, another's had but one,
Another boasts, 'I pick and choose and have but two
or three.'
If head and limb have beauty and the instep's high and light
They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say,
Be but the breakers of men's hearts or engines of delight:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
There'll be that crowd, that barbarous crowd, through
all the centurie...Read more of this...
by
Yeats, William Butler
...is boy whose tongue
can't help but say thought not thinked
who's no longer to be fed
with ideas any more than food
will pick and choose as he wishes
will draw with his fingers inked
will behave as a baby still
when it suits his own deep schemes
whose eyes look out on the world
with a sense that six is wise
and there's nothing that can't be grasped
if time and mood are right
and want and reward are linked
and truth (however grown up)
doesn't do the dirty on instinct...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...is boy whose tongue
can't help but say thought not thinked
who's no longer to be fed
with ideas any more than food
will pick and choose as he wishes
will draw with his fingers inked
will behave as a baby still
when it suits his own deep schemes
whose eyes look out on the world
with a sense that six is wise
and there's nothing that can't be grasped
if time and mood are right
and want and reward are linked
and truth (however grown up)
doesn't do the dirty on instinct...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...comes bawling at you bawling baby
love says you've got to do it
when you hate the world you don't owe nothing
you can pick and choose who you are
when love gets its claws its claws in you baby
you're stuck in your place like a star
so let me take hating every time
love can go jump in the sea
i'm giving up loving you loving you baby
and sticking to loving me...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...wild,
To satisfy one single child -
There'd be no end to it!"
"Of course you can't leave CHILDREN free,"
Said I, "to pick and choose:
But, in the case of men like me,
I think 'Mine Host' might fairly be
Allowed to state his views."
He said "It really wouldn't pay -
Folk are so full of fancies.
We visit for a single day,
And whether then we go, or stay,
Depends on circumstances.
"And, though we don't consult 'Mine Host'
Before the thing's arranged,
Still, if he often qu...Read more of this...
by
Carroll, Lewis
..., and give me a straight look.
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said.
Others can pick and choose if you can't.
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling.
You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.
(And her only thirty-one.)
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.
(She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.)
The chemist said it would be alri...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
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