Famous Transmitting Poems by Famous Poets

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MFingal - Canto II

...ld together:
And spite of all your double dealing,
We all are sure 'tis so, from feeling.


"Who heeds your babbling of transmitting
Freedom to brats of your begetting,
Or will proceed, as tho' there were a tie,
And obligation to posterity?
We get them, bear them, breed and nurse.
What has posterity done for us,
That we, least they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?


"And who believes you will not run?
Ye're cowards, every mother's son;
And i...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John


To Him that was Crucified

...alute you, and to salute those who are with you,
 before and since—and those to come also, 
That we all labor together, transmitting the same charge and succession;
We few, equals, indifferent of lands, indifferent of times; 
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes—allowers of all theologies, 
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, 
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers, nor any thing
 that is asserted; 
We hear the bawling and d...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

To Mæcenas

...d, and his bosom fir'd;
But say, ye Muses, why this partial grace,
To one alone of Afric's sable race;
>From age to age transmitting thus his name
With the first glory in the rolls of fame?

 Thy virtues, great Mæcenas! shall be sung
In praise of him, from whom those virtues sprung:
While blooming wreaths around thy temples spread,
I'll snatch a laurel from thine honour'd head,
While you indulgent smile upon the deed.

 As long as Thames in streams majestic flows,
Or Naiads i...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis

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