Famous Two Lines Poems by Famous Poets
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...a clean dry arch,
A corner for a sleep—
This flutters here in a woman’s hand.
A singing sleep cry,
A drunken poignant two lines of song,
Somebody looking clean into yesterday
And remembering, or looking clean into
To-morrow, and reading,—
This sings here as a woman’s sleep cry sings.
Pigeon friend of mine,
Fly on, sing on....Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...would have heard the screaming,
Then heard it stop and had a view of us
In our gloves and aprons coming
down the hill.
Two lines of them, guns on their
shoulders, marching.
Armoured cars and tanks and open jeeps.
Sunburnt hands and arms.
Unarmed, in step,
Hosting for Normandy.
Not that we knew then
Where they were headed, standing
there like youngsters
As they tossed us gum and tubes of
coloured sweets'...Read more of this...
by
Heaney, Seamus
...ON RISES AND JOINS THE SONG:
.... "Glory."
We were his people.
BOTH LEADERS:
You shall be wild and gay,
[On these two lines, man and woman stamp and whirl again, gravely, magnificently.]
Green trees shall deck your way,
Sunday be every day,
[On these two lines they kneel, commanding the audience.]
Ten thousand years.
King Solomon,
[Now they rise and bow to each other and the audience, maintaining a certain intention of benediction.]
King Solomon....Read more of this...
by
Lindsay, Vachel
...ome sweet herb;
another reading, however, is "a true love-knot," which may
have been of the nature of a charm.
36. The two lines within brackets are not in most of the
editions: they are taken from Urry; whether he supplied them or
not, they serve the purpose of a necessary explanation.
37. Gay girl: As applied to a young woman of light manners,
this euphemistic phrase has enjoyed a wonderful vitality.
38. Viretote: Urry reads "meritote," and explains it from
Spelman as a ...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
...ies to monks who had lived fifty years -- the jubilee
period -- in the order. The usual reading of the words ending
the two lines is "loan" or "lone," and "alone;" but to walk alone
does not seem to have been any peculiar privilege of a friar,
while the idea of precedence, or higher place at table and in
processions, is suggested by the reading in the text.
13. Borel folk: laymen, people who are not learned; "borel"
was a kind of coarse cloth.
14. Eli: Elijah (1 Kings, xix....Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
...I scanned two lines with some surmise
As over Keats I chanced to pore:
'And there I shut her wild, wild eyes
With kisses four.'
Says I: 'Why was it only four,
Not five or six or seven?
I think I would have made it more,--
Even eleven.
'Gee! If she'd lured a guy like me
Into her gelid grot
I'd make that Belle Dame sans Merci
Sure kiss a lot.
'Them poets have thei...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
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