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Famous Weighed Down(P) Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...epilogue: 
Your thoughts, 
dreaming on a softened brain, 
like an over-fed lackey on a greasy settee, 
with my heart's bloody tatters I'll mock again; 
impudent and caustic, I'll jeer to superfluity. 

Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid, 
there's not a single grey hair in my soul! 
Thundering the world with the might of my voice, 
I go by -- h...Read more of this...
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir



...Facts will not change to humour man's caprice,
So vaunt not human powers, but hold your peace;
Here must we stay, weighed down with grief for this,
That we were born so late, so soon decease....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar
...If all the ships I have at sea 
Should come a-sailing home to me, 
From sunny lands, and lands of cold, 
Ah well! the harbor could not hold 
So many sails as there would be 
If all my ships came in from sea. 

If half my ships came home from sea, 
And brought their precious freight to me, 
Ah, well! I should have wealth as great 
As any king who sits in st...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...August 14th, 1914

Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The 
zigzagging cry
of hoarse throats, it floats against the hard winds, and binds the 
head
of the serpent to its tail, the long snail-slow serpent of marching 
men.
Men weighed down with rifles and knapsacks, and parching with war.
The cry jars and splits against the brazen, burnish...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy
...for Christopher Okigbo 
Emrnanuel Ifeajuna & 
Chukwuma Nzeogwu

I

It was a room above the alcove
in a city renewed by junipers

And by desires... 

Stripped of words, 
the moments recalled; 
where the tower, 
lo, was in sight: 

memories undaunted by sound 
or flames of the amethyst, 

spoke to me; 
spoke to me like the preacher from…
...Read more of this...
by Nwakanma, Obi



...No.
It can’t be.
No!
You too, beloved?
Why? What for?
Darling, look -
I came,
I brought flowers,
but, but... I never took
silver spoons from your drawer!

Ashen-faced,
I staggered down five flights of stairs.
The street eddied round me. Blasts. Blares.
Tires screeched.
It was gusty.
The wind stung my cheeks.
Horn mounted horn lustfully.

Above the capital’...Read more of this...
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir
..."But, sir," I said, "they tell me the man is like to die!" The Canon shook his head indulgently. "Young blood, Cousin," he boomed. "Young blood! Youth will be served!" 
-- D'Hermonville's Fabliaux. 


He woke up with a sick taste in his mouth 
And lay there heavily, while dancing motes 
Whirled through his brain in endless, rippling streams, 
And a grey mi...Read more of this...
by Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry