Famous Restrains Poems by Famous Poets

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An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1

...s some wheel, or verges to some goal;
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

When the proud steed shall know why man restrains
His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains:
When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod,
Is now a victim, and now Egypt's God:
Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend
His actions', passions', being's, use and end;
Why doing, suff'ring, check'd, impell'd; and why
This hour a slave, the next a deity.

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n ...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


Canzone VIII

...so strong:'Tis not that safety springs from native might,But that some fear restrains,Which chills the current circling through my veins;Strengthening this heart, that it may suffer long.O hills, O vales, O forests, floods, and fields,Ye who have witness'd how my sad life flows,Oft have ye heard me call on death for aid.Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Essay on Man

...some wheel, or verges to some goal; 
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. 
When the proud steed shall know why Man restrains 
His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; 
When the dull Ox, why now he breaks the clod, 
Is now a victim, and now Egypt's God:(7) 
Then shall Man's pride and dullness comprehend 
His actions', passions', being's, use and end; 
Why doing, suff'ring, check'd, impell'd; and why 
This hour a slave, the next a deity. 
Then say not Man's imperfe...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

For The Moment

...the room I live in is finally bright

Just one beam is enough
Just one burst of laughter
My joy that shakes the house 
Restrains those wanting to die
By the notes of its song

I sing off-key
Ah it's funny 
My mouth open to every breeze 
Spews mad notes everywhere
That emerge I don't know how
To fly toward other ears

Listen I'm not crazy 
I laugh at the bottom of the stairs
Before the wide-open door
In the sunlight scattered 
On the wall among green vines 
And my arms are he...Read more of this...
by Reverdy, Pierre

Sonnet CIX

...asePresumptuous hope and high desire abase,And at our daring scarce herself restrains,Love thereon to my heart retires dismay'd,Abandons his attempt, and weeps and fears,And hiding there, no more my friend appears.What can the liege whose lord is thus afraid,More than with him, till life's last gasp, to dwell?Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


Sonnet CXLV

...OBEY.  Love in one instant spurs me and restrains,Assures and frightens, freezes me and burns,Smiles now and scowls, now summons me and spurns,In hope now holds me, plunges now in pains:Now high, now low, my weary heart he hurls,Until fond passion loses quite the path,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet VII

...her below;Blame Death,—or rather praise Him and adore,Who binds and frees, restrains and letteth go,And to the weeping one can joy restore. Wrottesley....Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet XLII

...name>Dacre.  Zephyr returns and winter's rage restrains,With herbs, with flowers, his blooming progeny!Now Progne prattles, Philomel complains,And spring assumes her robe of various dye;The meadows smile, heaven glows, nor Jove disdainsTo view his daughter with delighted eye;Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Settler

...nds!


Here, in the waves and the troughs of the plains,
 Where the healing stillness lies,
And the vast, benignant sky restrains
 And the long days make wise--
Bless to our use the rain and the sun
 And the blind seed in its bed,
That we may repair the wrong that was done
 To the living and the dead!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Thoughts On Jesus Christs Descent Into Hell

...to fly, but vain is flight;
Vainly she hastes to 'scape pursuit

And to avoid her Judge's eye;
The Lord's fierce wrath restrains her foot

Like brazen chains,--she cannot fly.

Here lies the Dragon, trampled down,
He lies, and feels God's angry frown,

He feels, and grinneth hideously;
He feels Hell's speechless agonies,
A thousand times he howls and sighs:

"Oh, burning flames! quick, swallow me!"
There lies he in the fiery waves,

By torments rack'd and pangs infernal,
Ins...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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