Famous Shekels Poems by Famous Poets

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Before A Crucifix

...l,
If thou wast verily man's lover,
What did thy love or blood avail?
Thy blood the priests make poison of,
And in gold shekels coin thy love.

So when our souls look back to thee
They sicken, seeing against thy side,
Too foul to speak of or to see,
The leprous likeness of a bride,
Whose kissing lips through his lips grown
Leave their God rotten to the bone.

When we would see thee man, and know
What heart thou hadst toward men indeed,
Lo, thy blood-blackened altars; lo,
The ...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles


Certain Maxims Of Hafiz

...deed.
Does not the boar break cover just when you're lighting a weed?

 IX. 
If He play, being young and unskilful, for shekels of silver and gold,
Take his money, my son, praising Allah. The kid was ordained to be sold.

 X.
With a "weed" amoung men or horses verily this is the best,
That you work him in office or dog-cart lightly -- but give him no rest.

 XI.
Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage;
But the colt who is wise will abstain from t...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Goliath Of Gath

...
Dreadful in arms high-tow'ring o'er the rest
A spear he proudly wav'd, whose iron head,
Strange to relate, six hundred shekels weigh'd;
He strode along, and shook the ample field,
While Phoebus blaz'd refulgent on his shield:
Through Jacob's race a chilling horror ran,
When thus the huge, enormous chief began:
"Say, what the cause that in this proud array
"You set your battle in the face of day?
"One hero find in all your vaunting train,
"Then see who loses, and who wins the...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis

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