Famous Receptacles Poems by Famous Poets

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The Copernican System

...primoeval rays; 
Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams, 
Scarcely enlighten'd with the solar beams, 
With four unfix'd receptacles of light, 
He tours majestic thro' the spacious height: 
But farther yet the tardy Saturn lags, 
And five attendant Luminaries drags, 
Investing with a double ring his pace, 
He circles thro' immensity of space. 
These are thy wondrous works, first source of Good! 
Now more admir'd in being understood....Read more of this...
by Chatterton, Thomas


The Swarm

...n with gray hands smiles --
The smile of a man of business, intensely practical.
They are not hands at all
But asbestos receptacles.
Pom! Pom! 'They would have killed me.'

Stings big as drawing pins!
It seems bees have a notion of honor,
A black intractable mind.
Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything.
O Europe! O ton of honey!...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

V

...beer
and more than one grave sprayed with some skin's name?

Where there were flower urns and troughs of water
And mesh receptacles for withered flowers
are the HARP tins of some skinhead Leeds supporter.
It isn't all his fault though. Much is ours.

5 kids, with one in goal, play 2-a-side.
When the ball bangs on the hawthorn that's one post
and petals fall they hum Here Comes the Bride
though not so loud they'd want to rouse a ghost.

They boot the ball on purpose at the tru...Read more of this...
by Harrison, Tony

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