Famous Unwrinkled Poems by Famous Poets

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Ode To The Johns Hopkins University

...or as he from earth.
Superb o'er slow increase of day on day,
Complete as Pallas she began her way;
Yet not from Jove's unwrinkled forehead sprung,
But long-time dreamed, and out of trouble wrung,
Fore-seen, wise-plann'd, pure child of thought and pain,
Leapt our Minerva from a mortal brain.

And here, O finer Pallas, long remain, --
Sit on these Maryland hills, and fix thy reign,
And frame a fairer Athens than of yore
In these blest bounds of Baltimore, --
Here, where the cl...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney


R.t.s.l. (1917-1977)

...As for that other thing
which comes when the eyelid is glazed
and the wax gleam
from the unwrinkled forehead
asks no more questions
of the dry mouth,

whether they open the heart like a shirt
to release a rage of swallows,
whether the brain
is a library for worms,
on the instant of that knowledge
of the moment
when everything became so stiff,

so formal with ironical adieux,
organ and choir,
and I must borrow a black tie,
and at what moment in t...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

The Present

...e again, pure and lovely 
in their perfect whiteness, the buttocks 
dimpled and firm. I see again the rope 
of his sex, unwrinkled, flushed and swaying, 
the hard flat belly as he raises his shirt 
to clean himself. He gazes at no one 
or nothing, but seems instead to look off 
into a darkness I hadn't seen, a pool 
of shadow that forms before his eyes, 
in my memory now as solid as onyx. 

* 

I began this poem in the present 
because nothing is past. The ice factory, 
the b...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

The Task: Book IV The Winter Evening (excerpts)

...! O'er yonder bridge,
That with its wearisome but needful length
Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon
Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright,
He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumb'ring at his back.
True to his charge, the close-pack'd load behind,
Yet careless what he brings, his one concern
Is to conduct it to the destin'd inn:
And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on.
He whi...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

The Watching Angel

...he way; 
 Thou hast learnt to borrow 
 Naught from study, naught from care; 
 The cold hand of sorrow 
 On thy brow unwrinkled yet, 
 Where young truth and candor sit, 
 Ne'er with rugged nail hath writ 
 That sad word, "To-morrow!" 
 
 Innocent! thou sleepest— 
 See the angelic band, 
 Who foreknow the trials 
 That for man are planned; 
 Seeing him unarmed, 
 Unfearing, unalarmed, 
 With their tears have warmed 
 This unconscious hand. 
 
 Still they, hove...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


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