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Famous Unresisting Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...rose
 I met one walking, loitering and hurried
As if blown towards me like the metal leaves
 Before the urban dawn wind unresisting.
 And as I fixed upon the down-turned face
That pointed scrutiny with which we challenge
 The first-met stranger in the waning dusk
 I caught the sudden look of some dead master
Whom I had known, forgotten, half recalled
 Both one and many; in the brown baked features
 The eyes of a familiar compound ghost
Both intimate and unidentifiable.
 So I ...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)



...is chill wind, etc. 
 
 "(Let me upon this bench be shortly resting, 
 So weary, I!) 
 That noble bore her smiling, unresisting, 
 By yonder high 
 And ragged road that snakes towards the summit 
 Where crags are piled— 
 Oh! this chill wind, etc. 
 
 "I saw her pass beside my lofty station— 
 A glance—'twas all! 
 And yet I loathe my daily honest ration, 
 The air's turned gall! 
 My soul's in chase, my body chafes to wander— 
 My dagger's filed— 
 Oh! this c...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor
...Lingering, roseate
         Kiss to the landscape to bid it good-bye.

   The time of our Trysting!
   Oh, come, unresisting,
         Lovely, expectant, on tentative feet.
   Shadow shall cover us,
   Roses bend over us,
         Making a bride chamber, sacred and sweet.

   We know not life's reason,
   The length of its season,
         Know not if they know, the great Ones above.
   We none of us sought it,
   And few could support it,
         Were it n...Read more of this...
by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory
...his mortal shore
Lipped by the inward, moonless waves of death.

Someone was holding water to his mouth.
He swallowed, unresisting; moaned and dropped
Through crimson gloom to darkness; and forgot
The opiate throb and ache that was his wound.
Water—calm, sliding green above the weir.
Water—a sky-lit alley for his boat,
Bird- voiced, and bordered with reflected flowers
And shaken hues of summer; drifting down,
He dipped contented oars, and sighed, and slept.

Night, with a gu...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried
...a Thought," said he:
"The vast unfathomable sea
Is but a Notion - unto me." 

And darkly fell her answer dread
Upon his unresisting head,
Like half a hundredweight of lead. 

"The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun. 

"The man that smokes - that reads the TIMES -
That goes to Christmas Pantomimes -
Is capable of ANY crimes!" 

He felt it was his turn to speak,
And, with a shamed and crimson cheek,
Moaned "This is harde...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis



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