Famous Unswerving Poems by Famous Poets

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Captain Craig

...was paying for it.—Whimsical, 
You think,—factitious; but “there is no luck, 
No fate, no fortune for us, but the old 
Unswerving and inviolable price 
Gets paid: God sells himself eternally,
But never gives a crust,” my friend had said; 
And while I watched those leaves, and heard those cats, 
And with half mad minuteness analyzed 
The Captain’s attitude and then my own, 
I felt at length as one who throws himself
Down restless on a couch when clouds are dark, 
And shuts hi...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


End of Another Home Holiday

...again!
        The moon sets forth o' nights
        To walk the lonely, dusky heights
        Serenely, with steps unswerving;
        Pursued by no sigh of bereavement,
        No tears of love unnerving
        Her constant tread:
    While ever at my side,
        Frail and sad, with grey bowed head,
        The beggar-woman, the yearning-eyed
        Inexorable love goes lagging.

The wild young heifer, glancing distraught,
With a strange new knocking of li...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Inferno (English)

...ead, so many as these. I saw 
 The shadow of him elect to Peter's seat 
 Who made the great refusal, and the law, 
 The unswerving law that left them this retreat 
 To seal the abortion of their lives, became 
 Illumined to me, and themselves I knew, 
 To God and all his foes the futile crew 
 How hateful in their everlasting shame. 

 I saw these victims of continued death 
 - For lived they never - were naked all, and loud 
 Around them closed a never-ceasing cloud 
 Of hor...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Mary and Gabriel

..."
The great wings were spread
Showering glory on the fields, and fire.
The whole air, singing, bore him up, and higher,
Unswerving, unreluctant. Soon he shone
A gold speck in the gold skies; then was gone.

The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone....Read more of this...
by Brooke, Rupert

The Ballad Of Touch-The-Button Nell

...ou bring."

So Riley Dooleyvitch went back and worked upon his claim;
He ditched and drifted, sunk and stoped, with one unswerving aim;
And when his poke of raw moose-hide with dust began to swell,
He bought and laid it at the feet of Touch-the-Button Nell.

 * * * * * * * * * * *

Now like all others of her ilk, the lady had a friend,
And what she made my way of trade, she gave to him to spend;
To stake him in a poker game, or pay his bar-room score;
He was a pimp from Paris...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


The Métier of Blossoming

...maiden giantess in modest splendor.
If humans could be
that intensely whole, undistracted, unhurried,
swift from sheer
unswerving impetus! If we could blossom
out of ourselves, giving
nothing imperfect, withholding nothing!...Read more of this...
by Levertov, Denise

The Song of the Beasts

...d the touch and the smell of bare flesh sting,
Soft flank by your flank, and side brushing side --
TO-NIGHT never heed!
Unswerving and silent follow with me,
Till the city ends sheer,
And the crook'd lanes open wide,
Out of the voices of night,
Beyond lust and fear,
To the level waters of moonlight,
To the level waters, quiet and clear,
To the black unresting plains of the calling sea....Read more of this...
by Brooke, Rupert

The Song of the Cities

...bour well,
 God flung me peace and ease.


 AUCKLAND

Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart --
 On us, on us the unswerving season smiles,
Who wonder 'mid our fern why men depart
 To seek the Happy Isles!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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