Famous Rigidity Poems by Famous Poets

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The Hammers

...us, the marble arch of the Place du Carrousel.
Like a woman raped by force, rising above her fate,
Borne up by the cold rigidity of hate,
Stands the marble arch of the Place du Carrousel.
Tap! Clink-a-tink!
Tap! Rap! Chink!
What falls to the ground like a streak of flame?
Hush! It is only a bit of bronze flashing in the sun.
What are all those soldiers? Those are not the uniforms 
of France.
Alas! No! The uniforms of France, Great Imperial 
France, are done.
They will rot awa...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy


The Marmoreal Slumbers

...dead centuries and funereal pasts,

The heraldic and grandiose white cadavers,
With righteous hands joined in ardent rigidity,
Pallid with faith, that rise from their bosoms
With sacerdotal gestures of prayer in eternity.

Beneath a heavy mourning of shadows in the tumulous crypts,
Within the illustrious vision of their solemn brows, slumbers
The barbarous spendour of secular reigns.

And their bodies, where the original blood has congealed,
Sealed within the marb...Read more of this...
by Delville, Jean

The Revolutionary

...dark throbs of invitation. 

But you, pale-faces, 
You are painful, harsh-surfaced pillars that give off nothing except rigidity, 
And I jut against you if I try to move, for you are everywhere, and I am blind, 
Sightless among all your visuality, 
You staring caryatids. 

See if I don't bring you down, and all your high opinion 
And all your ponderous roofed-in ******** of right and wrong 
Your particular heavens, 
With a smash. 

See if your skies aren't falling! 
And my he...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

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