Famous Therefor Poems by Famous Poets

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57. Holy Willie's Prayer

...takin arts,
 Wi’ great and sma’,
Frae G—d’s ain priest the people’s hearts
 He steals awa.


An’ when we chasten’d him therefor,
Thou kens how he bred sic a splore,
An’ set the warld in a roar
 O’ laughing at us;—
Curse Thou his basket and his store,
 Kail an’ potatoes.


L—d, hear my earnest cry and pray’r,
Against that Presbyt’ry o’ Ayr;
Thy strong right hand, L—d, make it bare
 Upo’ their heads;
L—d visit them, an’ dinna spare,
 For their misdeeds.


O L—d, my G—d! that g...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


God-Forgotten

...named . . . It perished, surely--not a wrack 
 Remaining, or a sign? 

 "It lost my interest from the first, 
 My aims therefor succeeding ill; 
Haply it died of doing as it durst?" - 
 "Lord, it existeth still." - 

 "Dark, then, its life! For not a cry 
 Of aught it bears do I now hear; 
Of its own act the threads were snapt whereby 
 Its plaints had reached mine ear. 

 "It used to ask for gifts of good, 
 Till came its severance self-entailed, 
When sudden silence on tha...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

Inferno (English)

...Moved through the peace of I leaven, and swift I sped 
 Downward, to aid my friend in love's avail, 
 With scanty time therefor, that half I dread 
 Too late I came. But thou shalt haste, and go 
 With golden wisdom of thy speech, that so 
 For me be consolation. Thou shalt say, 
 "I come from Beatric?." Downward far, 
 From Heaven to I leaven I sank, from star to star, 
 To find thee, and to point his rescuing way. 
 Fain would I to my place of light return; 
 Love moved me...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Psalm 9

...ere is a stone the size of a dream
It does not approach
It does not recoil
You are my country
A stone is not what I am 
therefor I do not like to face the sky 
not do I die level with the ground
but I am a stranger, always a stranger...Read more of this...
by Darwish, Mahmoud

Reasons For Attendance

...too am individual.
It speaks; I hear; others may hear as well,

But not for me, nor I for them; and so
With happiness. Therefor I stay outside,
Believing this, and they maul to and fro,
Believing that; and both are satisfied,
If no one has misjudged himself. Or lied....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip


Song of the Broad-Axe

...l’d; 
She knows the thoughts as she passes—nothing is conceal’d from her; 
She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor; 
She is the best belov’d—it is without exception—she has no reason to fear, and she does
 not
 fear;
Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp’d songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes; 
She is silent—she is possess’d of herself—they do not offend her; 
She receives them as the laws of nature receive them—she is strong, 
She too is a law of nature—...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Ballad of the Kings Mercy

...ame."

Before the dawn three times he spoke, and on the day once more:
"Creature of God, deliver me, and bless the King therefor!"

They shot him at the morning prayer, to ease him of his pain,
And when he heard the matchlocks clink, he blessed the King again.

Which thing the singers made a song for all the world to sing,
So that the Outer Seas may know the mercy of the King.

 Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told,
 He has opened his mouth to the North a...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Knights Tale

...*know'st
That who shall give a lover any law?
Love is a greater lawe, by my pan,
Than may be giv'n to any earthly man:
Therefore positive law, and such decree,
Is broke alway for love in each degree
A man must needes love, maugre his head.
He may not flee it, though he should be dead,
*All be she* maid, or widow, or else wife. *whether she be*
And eke it is not likely all thy life
To standen in her grace, no more than I
For well thou wost thyselfe verily,
That thou and I be ...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Millers Tale

...earken," quoth the Miller, "all and some:
But first I make a protestatioun.
That I am drunk, I know it by my soun':
And therefore if that I misspeak or say,
*Wite it* the ale of Southwark, I you pray: *blame it on*
For I will tell a legend and a life
Both of a carpenter and of his wife,
How that a clerk hath *set the wrighte's cap*." *fooled the carpenter*
The Reeve answer'd and saide, "*Stint thy clap*, *hold your tongue*
Let be thy lewed drunken harlotry.
It is a sin, an...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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