DAMAGE POEMS

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My Loving Heart

My loving heart..

Isn't it so rich n beautiful
It's warmth can melt candle wax
.....
Maite Lemekwane

Maite Lemekwane
Parallel Dimensions

In a parallel dimension,
Where everything is perfect,
No hate, no war, no injustice,
Prevail, only peace and happiness,
.....
Krishnapriya Ramanathan

Krishnapriya Ramanathan
The Hunting Of The Snark

Dedication

Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
.....
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
Light Loss

â??Our loss was light,â? the paper said,
â??Compared with damage to the Hunâ?:
She was a widow, and she read
One name upon the list of dead
.....

John Le Gay Brereton
Christmas Eve

I

Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
.....
Robert Browning

Robert Browning
Damages, Two Hundred Pounds

Special Jurymen of England! who admire your country's laws,
And proclaim a British Jury worthy of the realm's applause;
Gayly compliment each other at the issue of a cause
Which was tried at Guildford 'sizes, this day week as ever was.
.....
William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray
There Was An Old Person Of Slough

There was an old person of Slough,
Who danced at the end of a bough;
But they said, ‘If you sneeze,
You might damage the trees,
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Edward Lear

Edward Lear
The Swallow

Foolish prater, what dost thou
So early at my window do?
Cruel bird, thou'st ta'en away
A dream out of my arms to-day;
.....
Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley
Various Quotes From On Poetry And Craft: Selected Prose Of Theodore Roethke

The poem, even a short time after being written,
seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems
something beyond the capacity of the gods.

.....

Theodore Roethke
Hippodromania; Or, Whiffs From The Pipe (in Five Parts): Part I: Visions In The Smoke

Rest, and be thankful! On the verge
Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,
But whose granite base the breakers surge,
And shiver their frothy spray,
.....
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Game Of Our Bravehearts

GAME OF OUR BRAVEHEARTS

Those who deny our right to fight
By brazen betrayel
.....
Mohammad Younus

Mohammad Younus
The Guest Is Inside You, And Also Inside Me

The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
.....
Kabir

Kabir
Visions In The Smoke

Rest, and be thankful! On the verge
Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,
But whose granite base the breakers surge,
And shiver their frothy spray,
.....
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Joe Ramsbottom

Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm
From its owner, Squire Goslett his name;
And the Gosletts came over with William the First,
And found Ramsbottoms here when they came.
.....

Marriott Edgar
The Bothie Of Tober-na-vuolich - Vii

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VII
.....
Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough
The Odyssey: Book 12

“After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into
the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there
is dawn and sunrise as in other places. We then drew our ship on to
the sands and got out of her on to the shore, where we went to sleep
.....

Homer
Paradise Lost: Book 07

Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name
If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine
Following, above the Olympian hill I soar,
Above the flight of Pegasean wing!
.....
John Milton

John Milton
In Dependence

We won, but never conquered
We fought, but never wrestled
We chanted victorious songs,but
We're still the captured ones
.....
Onobhamiukor God's Gift

Onobhamiukor God's Gift
Old People's Home

All are limitory, but each has her own
nuance of damage. The elite can dress and decent themselves,
are ambulant with a single stick, adroit
to read a book all through, or play the slow movements of
.....
W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden
Bedside Vigil

Listening as your last breath hovers
the despairing exodus we all enter,
of lost dreams, remorse's murmur
recalling sharply an accustomed life.
.....

Roland John
The Cruel Moon

The cruel Moon hangs out of reach
Up above the shadowy beech.
Her face is stupid, but her eye
Is small and sharp and very sly.
.....
Robert Graves

Robert Graves
Anacreontics, The Swallow

FOOLISH prater, what dost thou
So early at my window do?
Cruel bird, thou'st ta'en away
A dream out of my arms to-day;
.....
Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley
The Hunting Of The Snark

Fit the First
THE LANDING

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
.....
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me

Lie Philo untouch'd, on my peaceable shelf,
Nor take it amiss that so little I heed thee;
I've no envy to thee, and some love to myself:
Then why should I answer since first I must read thee?
.....
Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior
The Book And The Ring

Here were the end, had anything an end:
Thus, lit and launched, up and up roared and soared
A rocket, till the key o' the vault was reached,
And wide heaven held, a breathless minute-space,
.....
Robert Browning

Robert Browning
Ponte Dell' Angelo, Venice

Stop rowing! This one of our bye-canals
O'er a certain bridge you have to cross
That's named, "Of the Angel:" listen why!
The name "Of the Devil" too much appalls
.....
Robert Browning

Robert Browning
Dipsychus - Part Ii

Scene I.

The interior Arcade of the Doge's Palace.

.....
Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough
Pot And Kettle

Come close to me, dear Annie, while I bind a lover's knot.
A tale of burning love between a kettle and a pot.
The pot was stalwart iron and the kettle trusty tin,
And though their sides were black with smoke they bubbled love within.
.....
Robert Graves

Robert Graves
A Romance Of Canada

An English youth to Canada came,
A labourer, John Roe by name;
His little wealth had made him bold-
Twenty sovereigns in gold,
.....

James Mcintyre
An Old-world Thicket

…”Una selva oscura.”-Dante.


Awake or sleeping (for I know not which)
.....
Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti
The Borough. Letter Vi: Professions--law

'TRADES and Professions'--these are themes the Muse,
Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;
But to our Borough they in truth belong,
And we, perforce, must take them in our song.
.....
George Crabbe

George Crabbe
The Sacrilege: (a Ballad-tragedy)

PART I

'I have a Love I love too well
Where Dunkery frowns on Exon Moor;
.....
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Sympathy

Lately alas I knew a gentle boy,
Whose features all were cast in Virtue's mould,
As one she had designed for Beauty's toy,
But after manned him for her own strong-hold.
.....

Henry David Thoreau
Fit The First: ( Hunting Of The Snark )

The Landing

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
.....
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
Hippodromania; Or, Whiffs From The Pipe

Part I
Visions in the Smoke
Rest, and be thankful! On the verge
Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,
.....
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Bagpipe Music

It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Their knickers are made of crepe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with head of bison.
.....

Louis Macneice
The Two Thieves

O now that the genius of Bewick were mine,
And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne.
Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose,
For I'd take my last leave both of verse and of prose.
.....
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Science Club

Hurrah for the Science Club!
Join it, ye fourth year men;
Join it, thou smooth-cheeked scrub,
Whose years scarce number ten
.....

Robert Fuller Murray
Part I: Visions In The Smoke

Rest, and be thankful ! On the verge
Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,
But whose granite base the breakers surge,
And shiver their frothy spray,
.....
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Exiles

It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit
along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome
and you'll see palaces and monuments that will amaze you.
Whatever war-damage it's suffered,
.....

Constantine P. Cavafy
Spectator Ab Extra

As I sat in the Café I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,
But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking
.....
Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough
"in Re A Gentleman, One"

We see it each day in the paper,
And know that there's mischief in store;
That some unprofessional caper
Has landed a shark on the shore.
.....

Banjo Paterson
Gardeners Grouch

There's a looper caterpillar in my lupins,
There are weevils weaving strands about my stocks,
There are throngs of thieving thrips
On my seedlings and my slips,
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
To William H. Seward

STATESMAN, I thank thee! and, if yet dissent
Mingles, reluctant, with my large content,
I cannot censure what was nobly meant.
But, while constrained to hold even Union less
.....
John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice

O now that the genius of Bewick were mine,
And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne.
Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose,
For I'd take my last leave both of verse and of prose.
.....
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Fit The First: The Landing

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
.....
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
In Re A Gentleman, One

We see it each day in the paper,
And know that there's mischief in store;
That some unprofessional caper
Has landed a shark on the shore.
.....

Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
Rape. An Evil Act

Rape! Rape!! Rape!!!

Rape is a never ending torture,
It kills the victime's nature.
.....
Davidson Perfect

Davidson Perfect
How Can I Live With Myself

How can i live with myself
Damage inside, oh lord I need help
I was young and dedicated
Hung with baddies and got intoxicated
.....
Siya Selani

Siya Selani