Famous Rouses Poems by Famous Poets

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157. Prologue spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh

...h elegance and force
The tide of Empire’s fluctuating course;
Here Douglas forms wild Shakespeare into plan,
And Harley rouses all the God in man.
When well-form’d taste and sparkling wit unite
With manly lore, or female beauty bright,
(Beauty, where faultless symmetry and grace
Can only charm us in the second place),
Witness my heart, how oft with panting fear,
As on this night, I’ve met these judges here!
But still the hope Experience taught to live,
Equal to judge—you’re c...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


An Evening in Dandaloo

...ter slowly toiling 
Through the deep black country, soiling 
Wheels and axles, too, 
Lays the whip on Spot and Banker, 
Rouses Tarboy with a flanker -- 
"Redman! Ginger! Heave there! Yank her 
Wade in, Dandaloo!"...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

Fame

...adem
Of circling red; and in their midst a gem
That sparkles with a strange intensive light.
She smiles—a smile that rouses all the fire
In one young heart; with quick and eager flight
His eyes seek hers; unto her face still higher
The warm blood flows beneath that ling'ring gaze.
Her drooping eyes grow liquid with the rays
Of light within their depths; the rippling hair,
With burnished hues of brown and amber rare,
Falls o'er the shaded brow; while sweeping low,
T...Read more of this...
by Sherrick, Fannie Isabelle

from Asphodel That Greeny Flower

...that I could not cry to you
 in the act.
Of asphodel, that greeny flower,
 I come, my sweet,
 to sing to you!
My heart rouses
 thinking to bring you news
 of something
that concerns you
 and concerns many men. Look at
 what passes for the new.
You will not find it there but in
 despised poems.
 It is difficult
to get the news from poems
 yet men die miserably every day
 for lack
of what is found there.
 Hear me out
 for I too am concerned
and every man
 who wants to die at p...Read more of this...
by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)

Happy the Labrer

...he reverence he owes,
Likes best the prayers whose meaning least he knows,
Lists to the sermon in a softening doze,
And rouses joyous at the welcome close....Read more of this...
by Austen, Jane


Hymn to Demeter by Homer

...d Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows.[5] We were playing and gathering sweet flowers in our hands, soft crocuses mingled with irises and hyacinths, and rose-blooms and lilies, marvellous to see, and the narcissus which the wide earth caused to grow yellow as a crocus. That I plucked in my joy; but the earth parted beneath, and there the strong lor...Read more of this...
by Homer,

Ode to Melancholy

...id wing, 
O'er his fev'rish, burning head, 
Drops of conscious auguish fling; 
While freezing HORROR's direful scream, 
Rouses his guilty soul from kind oblivion's dream. 

Oft, beneath the witching Yew, 
The trembling MAID, steals forth unseen; 
With true-love wreaths, of deathless green, 
Her Lover's grave to strew; 
Her downcast Eye, no joy illumes, 
Nor on her Cheek, the soft Rose blooms; 
Her mourning Heart, the victim of thy pow'r, 
Shrinks from the glare of Mirth, and ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Open Table

...er wending?

Women also I expect,

Loving tow'rd their spouses,
Whose rude grumbling in their breasts

Greater love but rouses.
Invitations they've had too,

All proposed attending!
Johnny, go and look around!

Are they hither wending?

I've too ask'd young gentlemen,

Who are far from haughty,
And whose purses are well-stock'd,

Well-behaved, not haughty.
These especially I ask'd,

All proposed attending.
Johnny, go and look around!

Are they hither wending?

Men I summon'd ...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

The Beacon of Fires

...id and red doth the wild fire sweep;
It flashes afar on the wayward stream
Of the wild Euripus, the rushing beam!
It rouses the light on Messapion's height,
And they feed its breath with the withered heath.
But it may not stay!
And away -- away --
It bounds in its freshening might.
 
Silent and soon,
Like a broadened moon,
It passes in sheen, Asopus green,
And bursts on Cithaeron gray!
The warder wakes to the Signal-rays,
And it swoops from the hill with a broad...Read more of this...
by Aeschylus,

The Lord of Burleigh

...the lordly castles stand: 
Summer woods, about them blowing, 
Made a murmur in the land. 
From deep thought himself he rouses, 
Says to her that loves him well, 
'Let us see these handsome houses 
Where the wealthy nobles dwell.' 
So she goes by him attended, 
Hears him lovingly converse, 
Sees whatever fair and splendid 
Lay betwixt his home and hers; 
Parks with oak and chestnut shady, 
Parks and order'd gardens great, 
Ancient homes of lord and lady, 
Built for pleasure a...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Schoolmaster

...,
  Watch the boys in their summer blouses,
  As they write, their round heads busily bowed:
  And one after another rouses
  And lifts his face and looks at me,
  And my eyes meet his very quietly,
  Then he turns again to his work, with glee.

  With glee he turns, with a little glad
  Ecstasy of work he turns from me,
  An ecstasy surely sweet to be had.
  And very sweet while the sunlight waves
  In the fresh of the morning, it is to be
  A teacher of these y...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

The Seasons: Winter

...n gentle Gales, 
A Philosophic Melancholly breathes,
And bears the swelling Thought aloft to Heaven.
Then forming Fancy rouses to conceive,
What never mingled with the Vulgar's Dream:
Then wake the tender Pang, the pitying Tear, 
The Sigh for suffering Worth, the Wish prefer'd
For Humankind, the Joy to see them bless'd,
And all the Social Off-spring of the Heart!

OH! bear me then to high, embowering, Shades;
To twilight Groves, and visionary Vales; 
To weeping Grottos, and t...Read more of this...
by Thomson, James

Thus the Mayne glideth

...s its quiet way, 
Save some lazy stork that springs, 
Trailing it with legs and wings, 
Whom the shy fox from the hill 
Rouses, creep he ne'er so still....Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

To an Absent Lover

...ed thing doth grow 
So altered, that I wander to and fro 
Bewildered by the most familiar sight, 
And feel like one who rouses in the night 
From dream of ecstasy, and cannot know 
At first if he be sleeping or awake. 
My foolish heart so foolish for thy sake 
Hath grown, dear one! 
Teach me to be more wise. 
I blush for all my foolishness doth lack; 
I fear to seem a coward in thine eyes. 
Teach me, dear one,--but first thou must come back!...Read more of this...
by Jackson, Helen Hunt

Waking in the Blue

...The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore,
rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head
propped on The Meaning of Meaning.
He catwalks down our corridor.
Azure day
makes my agonized blue window bleaker.
Crows maunder on the petrified fairway.
Absence! My hearts grows tense
as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.
(This is the house for the "mentally ill.")

What use is my sense of humour?
I ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Robert

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