Famous Roughness Poems by Famous Poets

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Endymion: Book II

...into thee; let the sounds
Of our close voices marry at their birth;
Let us entwine hoveringly--O dearth
Of human words! roughness of mortal speech!
Lispings empyrean will I sometime teach
Thine honied tongue--lute-breathings, which I gasp
To have thee understand, now while I clasp
Thee thus, and weep for fondness--I am pain'd,
Endymion: woe! woe! is grief contain'd
In the very deeps of pleasure, my sole life?"--
Hereat, with many sobs, her gentle strife
Melted into a languor....Read more of this...
by Keats, John


Song of the Broad-Axe

...th,
And the dead advance as much as the living advance, 
And the future is no more uncertain than the present, 
And the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth
 and
 of
 man, 
And nothing endures but personal qualities. 
What do you think endures?
Do you think the great city endures? 
Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best-built
 steamships? 
Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d’oeuvres of e...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of the Open Road

...ecruit for myself and you as I go;
I will scatter myself among men and women as I go; 
I will toss the new gladness and roughness among them; 
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; 
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. 

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Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear, it would not amaze me;
Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear’d, it would not astonish me. 

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, 
It is to grow...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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