Famous Revoke Poems by Famous Poets

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Bride of Abydos The

...ond my weaker sense extends. 
I mean that Giaffir should have heard 
The very vow I plighted thee; 
His wrath would not revoke my word: 
But surely he would leave me free. 
Can this fond wish seem strange in me, 
To be what I have ever been? 
What other hath Zuleika seen 
From simple childhood's earliest hour? 
What other can she seek to see 
Than thee, companion of her bower, 
The partner of her infancy? 
These cherish'd thoughts with life begun, 
Say, why must I no more avo...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)


From The Testament of Beauty

...; nor might he escape
the fall of Ev'ryman, did not a second call
of nature's Love await him to confirm his Faith
or to revoke him if he is whollylapsed therefrom.
And so mighty is this second vision, which cometh
in puberty of body and adolescence of mind
that, forgetting his Mother, he calleth it 'first Love';
for it mocketh at suasion or stubbornness of heart,
as the oceantide of the omnipotent Pleasur of God,
flushing all avenues of life, and unawares
by thousandfold appr...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour

Mycerinus

...woods
I will go forth; though something would I say--
Something--yet what, I know not; for the Gods
The doom they pass revoke not, nor delay;
And prayers, and gifts, and tears, are fruitless all,
And the night waxes, and the shadows fall.

'Ye men of Egypt, ye have heard your king!
I go, and I return not. But the will
Of the great Gods is plain; and ye must bring
Ill deeds, ill passions, zealous to fulfil
Their pleasure, to their feet; and reap their praise,
The praise of Go...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

Paradise Lost: Book 03

...o 
I form'd them free: and free they must remain, 
Till they enthrall themselves; I else must change 
Their nature, and revoke the high decree 
Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain'd 
$THeir freedom: they themselves ordain'd their fall. 
The first sort by their own suggestion fell, 
Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man falls, deceiv'd 
By the other first: Man therefore shall find grace, 
The other none: In mercy and justice both, 
Through Heaven and Earth, so shall my glory excel;...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Prayer For France

...e these mercenary combats, spare! 
 The thrones that now are reared but to be broke; 
 The rights we render, and anon revoke; 
 The muddy stream of laws, ideas, needs, 
 Flooding our social life as it proceeds; 
 Opposing tribunes, even when seeming one— 
 Soft, yielding plaster put in place of stone; 
 Wave chasing wave in endless ebb and flow; 
 War, darker still and deeper in its woe; 
 One party fall'n, successor scarce preludes, 
 Than, straight, new views thei...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


Psalm 89 part 5

...od
And make their folly smart;
But I'll not cease to be their God,
Nor from my truth depart.

"My cov'nant I will ne'er revoke,
But keep my grace in mind
And what eternal love hath spoke
Eternal truth shall bind.

"Once have I sworn (I need no more)
And pledged my holiness,
To seal the sacred promise sure
To David and his race.

"The sun shall see his offspring rise
And spread from sea to sea,
Long as he travels round the skies
To give the nations day.

"Sure as the moon that...Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

The Bride of Abydos

...ond my weaker sense extends. 
I mean that Giaffir should have heard 
The very vow I plighted thee; 
His wrath would not revoke my word: 
But surely he would leave me free. 
Can this fond wish seem strange in me, 
To be what I have ever been? 
What other hath Zuleika seen 
From simple childhood's earliest hour? 
What other can she seek to see 
Than thee, companion of her bower, 
The partner of her infancy? 
These cherish'd thoughts with life begun, 
Say, why must I no more avo...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Hock-cart or Harvest Home

...t; and as ye eat, 
Be mindful, that the lab'ring neat 
(As you) may have their fill of meat 
And know, besides, ye must revoke 
The patient ox unto the yoke, 
And all go back unto the plough 
And harrow, (though they're hang'd up now.) 
And, you must know, your lord's word's true, 
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. 
And that this pleasure is like rain, 
Not sent ye for to drown your pain, 
But for to make it spring again....Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert

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