Famous Unauthorized Poems by Famous Poets

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At The Door

...en.

Or you can approach the door as if accustomed
To having all barriers open by themselves.
You can wrench aside
This unauthorized interruption of your progress
And then leave it ajar
For others to do with as they may see fit.

Or you can stand at ease
And give the impression you can see through
This door or any door and have no need
To take your physical self to the other side.

Or you can turn the knob as if at last
Nothing could please you more, your body language
Filled...Read more of this...
by Wagoner, David


The Lost Legion

...rselves
 (Good men!),
 Five hundred as good as ourselves!

Then a health (we must drink it in whispers),
 To our wholly unauthorized horde --

To the line of our dusty foreloopers,
 The Gentlemen Rovers abroad --
Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter,
 For the steamer won't wait for the train,
And the Legion that never was listed
 Goes back into quarters again!
 'Regards!
 Goes back under canvas again.
 Hurrah!
 The swag and the billy again.
 Here's how!
 The trail and th...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Princess (part 4)

...se despair, 
But in the teeth of clenched antagonisms 
To follow up the worthiest till he die: 
Yet that I came not all unauthorized 
Behold your father's letter.' 
On one knee 
Kneeling, I gave it, which she caught, and dashed 
Unopened at her feet: a tide of fierce 
Invective seemed to wait behind her lips, 
As waits a river level with the dam 
Ready to burst and flood the world with foam: 
And so she would have spoken, but there rose 
A hubbub in the court of half the maid...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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