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Famous Reforms Poems by Famous Poets

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...s, all seemingly has come

and now it goes, to regather,
to tell another story to its patient mother.


16)

Reflection reforms, each man's a life,
makes its stumbling way from mother to wife --

cast as a gesture from ignorant flesh,
here writes in fumbling words to touch,

say, how can I be,
when she is all that was ever me?


17)

Around and in --
And up and down again,

and far and near --
and here and there,

in the middle is
a great round nothingness.


18)

Not metapho...Read more of this...
by Creeley, Robert



...od
On my misdoings of the past,
And vowed: "This year I'll be so good -
Well, haply better than the last."
My record of reforms I read
To Mum who listened sweetly to it:
"Why plan all this, my son?" she said;
 "Just do it."

Of her wise words I've often thought -
Aye, sometimes with a pang of pain,
When resolutions come to naught,
And high resolves are sadly vain;
The human heart from failure bleeds;
Hopes may be wrecked so that we rue them . . .
Don't let us dream of lovely ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...illing to hear the tongues; 
And I announce as a glory of These States, that they respectfully listen to propositions,
 reforms, fresh views and doctrines, from successions of men and women, 
Each age with its own growth. 

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I have said many times that materials and the Soul are great, and that all depends on
 physique;
Now I reverse what I said, and affirm that all depends on the æsthetic or
 intellectual, 
And that criticism is great—and that refinement is greatest of all;...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt
...less plains, stumbling in cracked earth 
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
 A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling remi...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity --

Unable they that love -- to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily



...rth                         370
  Ringed by the flat horizon only
  What is the city over the mountains
  Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
  Falling towers
  Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
  Vienna London
  Unreal

  A woman drew her long black hair out tight
  And fiddled whisper music on those strings
  And bats with baby faces in the violet light                            380
  Whistled, and beat their wings
  And crawled head downward down a blac...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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