Best Marvell Poems
Limericks Vi - Religion...Limericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
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Categories:
marvell, christian, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Limerick
To Her Ardent Mister...after To My Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Had we but World enough and Time
Your mating call, sir, were no crime.
If lifetimes were more than a few
I’d spend an Age fo......
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Categories:
marvell, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
You Matter...The last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel......
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Categories:
marvell, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Lament of the Literature In English Gre Subject Test-Taker...As Sol arises, greets the morn
the soon test taker wails,
"I'm doomed! If I had only read
The Canterbury Tales!
Or more of Samuel Collerige,
or Wordsworth, Yeats or Shelley,
More Medieval or ......
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Categories:
marvell, education
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T Wignesan...Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from Ame......
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Categories:
marvell, america, creation, culture, film,
Form:
Free verse
To His Coy Master...Had we but words enough and tact
This coyness, master. Were no crime
I will like Marvell
Use simile to woo your love
And wait on you on the wings of time
Till your hardened ice becomes water......
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Categories:
marvell, eulogy, friend, hyperbole, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Clerihew Marvel...Engish poet Andrew Marvell
passionate words the erotic did sell
In expansive metaphysical conceit
the reader so often did meet......
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Categories:
marvell, people, poetry,
Form:
Clerihew
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Vi...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI
On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right miss
how the hell c......
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Categories:
marvell, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Tribute To Andrew Marvell...Gone almost half a millennium ago,
Here comes one of your kind;
A mind ever ridden by the chariots of Muse
And who rest never can find
Until he ceases to refuse
And empties the weight of pen.
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Categories:
marvell, dedicationlove,
Form:
Verse
No Angel Plays a Tune...In what direction do we speed?
A mote of dust, this drifting earth.
Scant years of life don’t count.
To us only, are they paramount.
We are born of family clan.
Do we act as best we can?
Wor......
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Categories:
marvell, angel, atheist, death, i
Form:
Rhyme
Naughty Novelties...NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
This is my tra......
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Categories:
marvell, books, extended metaphor, poems,
Form:
Epigram
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Ii...Light Verse
Marvell-Less
by Michael R. Burch
Mr. Marvell was ill-named? Inform us!
Alas, his crude writings deform us:
for when trying to bed
chaste virgins, he led
off with his iron ball......
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Categories:
marvell, fantasy, fun, humor, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse