Famous Recklessly Poems by Famous Poets

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Beowulf (Modern English)

...56)

Beowulf replied to him, the son of Ecgtheow:
“By many graces, we have performed a courageous work
by fighting, recklessly risking the unknowable strength.
I would have wished the more greatly that you might
have seen him yourself, the fiend in his fittings,
wearied and frightened. I thought to fetter him
forthwith with tight bonds on his death-bed
so that he lay here, struggling for life in my hand-grip,
unless he should relinquish his body…
I could not entrap...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


Drunk

...Gracefully sighing through the white 
 Flowery mantilla of lace. 

And another lilac in purple veiled 
 Discreetly, all recklessly calls 
In a low, shocking perfume, to know who has hailed 
Her forth from the night: my strength has failed 
 In her voice, my weak heart falls: 
Oh, and see the laburnum shimmering 
 Her draperies down, 
As if she would slip the gold, and glimmering 
 White, stand naked of gown.
 . . . . . . 
The pageant of flowery trees above 
 The street pale-p...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures

...to split—
* * * * *
(Brown after that had but six toes!

 Warning

Infinitives, by this we see.
Should not he split too recklessly....Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker

Lovers Gifts LII: Tired of Waiting

...ome in its time, sailing in the flood-tide
of the south wind. But you never counted slow moments to be sure
of him. You recklessly spent your all in the road, in the terrible
joy of faith.
You heard his footsteps from afar, and flung your mantle of
death for him to tread upon. Your bonds break even before the
rescuer is seen, you make him your own ere he can come and claim
you....Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath

Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me

...NOT my enemies ever invade me—no harm to my pride from them I fear; 
But the lovers I recklessly love—lo! how they master me! 
Lo! me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength! 
Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Sonnet VI

...class=iname>Macgregor.  My tameless will doth recklessly pursueHer, who, unshackled by love's heavy chain,Flies swiftly from its chase, whilst I in vainMy fetter'd journey pantingly renew;The safer track I offer to its view,But hopeless is my power to restrain,It rides rega...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Family Monkey

...We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather 
recklessly with funds carefully gathered since 
grandfather's time for the purchase of a steam monkey. 

We had either, by this time, the choice of an electric 
or gas monkey. 

The steam monkey is no longer being made, said the monkey 
merchant. 

But the family always planned on a steam monkey. 

Well, said the monkey merchant, just as the wind-up monkey 
...Read more of this...
by Edson, Russell

The Fishermen

...ne.


And this one gathers in his net,
Drawing it tighter yet,
His freight of petty misery;
And that one drags up recklessly
Diseases from their slimy bed;
While others still their meshes spread
Out to the sorrows that drift by
Threateningly nigh;
And the last hauls aboard with force
The wreckage dark of his remorse.



The river, round its corners bending,
And with the dyke-heads intertwined.
Goes hence—since what times out of mind?—
Toward the far horizon...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

The Old Timers Steeplechase

...I caught the ring of the trainer's cry; 
"Go on, for the Mooki River!" 

I jammed him in with a well-packed crush, 
And recklessly -- out for slaughter -- 
Like a living wave over fence and brush 
We swept and swung with a flying rush, 
Till we came to the dreaded water. 

Ha, ha! I laugh at it now to think 
Of the way I contrived to work it 
Shut in amongst them, before you'd wink, 
He found himself on the water's brink, 
With never a chance to shirk it! 

The thought of the...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Place Where The Rainbow Ends

...e,
At the place where the rainbow ends.
Oh, many have sought it,
And all would have bought it,
With the blood we so recklessly spend;
But none has uncovered,
The gold, nor discovered
The spot at the rainbow's end.
They have sought it in battle,
And e'en where the rattle
Of dice with man's blasphemy blends;
But howe'er persuasive,
It still proves evasive,
This place where the rainbow ends.
I own for my pleasure,
I yearn not for treasure,
Though gold has a power...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

The Sale of Saint Thomas

...iss of such a beauty, 
Must sure feel fine as spiritual sight. -- 
Moods have been on me, too, when I would be 
Sailing recklessly through wild darkness, where 
Gigantic whispers of a harassed sea 
Fill the whole world of air, and I stand up 
To breast the danger of the loosen'd sky, 
And feel my immortality like music, -- 
Yea, I alone in the broken world, firm things 
All gone to monstrous flurry, knowing myself 
An indestructible word spoken by God. -- 
This is a small, sm...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles

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