Famous Ripest Poems by Famous Poets

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Blackberry Eating

...earn for knowing the black art 
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them 
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries 
fall almost unbidden to my tongue, 
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words 
like strengths or squinched, 
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps 
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well 
in the silent, startled, icy, black language 
of blackberry-eating in late September....Read more of this...
by Kinnell, Galway


In an Old Town Garden

...its own. 

The freshness of the springtime rains
And dews of morning linger here;
It holds the glow of summer noons
And ripest twilights of the year. 

Above its bloom the evening stars
Look down at closing of the day,
And in its sweet and shady walks
Winds spent with roaming love to stray, 

Upgathering to themselves the breath
Of wide-blown roses white and red,
The spice of musk and lavender
Along its winding alleys shed. 

Outside are shadeless, troubled streets
And souls ...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice

...at Christ's employment. 

The vault and scope and schooling
And mastery in the mind,
In silk-ash kept from cooling,
And ripest under rind—
What life half lifts the latch of,
What hell stalks towards the snatch of,
Your offering, with despatch, of!...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

The Artists

...d noble manhood's prime,
With unlocked senses, with a spirit freed,
Of firmness mild,--though silent, rich in deed,
The ripest son of Time,
Through meekness great, through precepts strong,
Through treasures rich, that time had long
Hid in thy bosom, and through reason free,--
Master of Nature, who thy fetters loves,
And who thy strength in thousand conflicts proves,
And from the desert soared in pride with thee!

Flushed with the glow of victory,
Never forget to prize the han...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

the eyes that haunt me

...e they cup aloneness
they're your eyes but my at-one-ment
(more to sing of than i can fathom)
sensing them calmly's the ripest pain
these eyes so poignant they daren't exist...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


The Favorite Sultana

...om Hellas' strand? 
 
 You're neither blanched nor blackened, 
 For your tint of olive's clear; 
 Yours are lips of ripest cherry, 
 You are straight as Arab spear. 
 
 Hence, launch no longer lightning 
 On these paltry slaves of ours. 
 Why should your flow of tears be matched 
 By their mean life-blood showers? 
 
 Think only of our banquets 
 Brought and served by charming girls, 
 For beauties sultans must adorn 
 As dagger-hilts the pearls. 


 



...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Giant In Glee

...I follow, to harry the clamorous ranks, 
 Sharp-goading the laggards and pressing the flanks, 
 Till, a thresher 'mid ripest of corn, up I stand 
 With an oak for a flail in my unflagging hand. 
 
 Rise the groans! rise the screams! on my feet fall vain tears 
 As the roar of my laughter redoubles their fears. 
 I am naked. At armor of steel I should joke— 
 True, I'm helmed—a brass pot you could draw with ten yoke. 
 
 I look for no ladder to invade the king's hall...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Ripest Peach

...The ripest peach is highest on the tree -- 
And so her love, beyond the reach of me, 
Is dearest in my sight. Sweet breezes, bow 
Her heart down to me where I worship now! 

She looms aloft where every eye may see 
The ripest peach is highest on the tree. 
Such fruitage as her love I know, alas! 
I may not reach here from the orchard grass. 

I drink the sunshin...Read more of this...
by Riley, James Whitcomb

Within my Garden rides a Bird

...single Wheel --
Whose spokes a dizzy Music make
As 'twere a travelling Mill --

He never stops, but slackens
Above the Ripest Rose --
Partakes without alighting
And praises as he goes,

Till every spice is tasted --
And then his Fairy Gig
Reels in remoter atmospheres --
And I rejoin my Dog,

And He and I, perplex us
If positive, 'twere we --
Or bore the Garden in the Brain
This Curiosity --

But He, the best Logician,
Refers my clumsy eye --
To just vibrating Blossoms!
An Ex...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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