DILEMMA POEMS
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Her Dilemma
THE two were silent in a sunless church,
Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones,
And wasted carvings passed antique research;
And nothing broke the clock's dull monotones.
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Thomas Hardy
Hole
They flee from me, dearest wishes,
Undesires that strive to become friendly foes,
Poor mind, of thy sores to deepen, they rush,
For Disappointment opens my door in sad smiles,
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Chibueze Osukwu
The Dilemma
Now, by the blessed Paphian queen,
Who heaves the breast of sweet sixteen;
By every name I cut on bark
Before my morning star grew dark;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dilemma
Whatever we do, whether we light
strangersâ?? cigarettesâ??it may turn out
to be a detective wanting to know who is free
with a light on a lonely street nightsâ??
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David Ignatow
Dilemma
If I were mild, and I were sweet,
And laid my heart before your feet,
And took my dearest thoughts to you,
And hailed your easy lies as true;
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Dorothy Parker
Against Hope
Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is,
Alike if it succeed, and if it miss;
Whom Good or Ill does equally confound,
And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound.
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Abraham Cowley
Dilemma
What though the moon should come
With a blinding glow,
And the stars have a game
On the wood's edge,
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Orrick Johns
To One Across The Way
When at your window radiant you've stood
I've sometimes thought-forgive me if I've erred
That some slight thought of me perhaps has stirred
Your heart to beat less gently than it should.
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Ambrose Bierce
My Love
my love
thy hair is one kingdom
the king whereof is darkness
thy forehead is a flight of flowers
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E. E. Cummings
A Sunset Of The City
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
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Gwendolyn Brooks
The True-blue American
Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American,
For he was a little boy who understood America, for he felt that he must
Think about everything; because thatâ??s all there is to think about,
Knowing immediately the intimacy of truth and comedy,
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Delmore Schwartz
An Offer Of Marriage
Once I 'dipt into the future far as human eye could see,'
And saw-it was not Sandow, nor John Sullivan, but she
The Emancipated Woman, who was weeping as she ran
Here and there for the discovery of Expurgated Man.
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Ambrose Bierce
A Dilemma
Filled with a zeal to serve my fellow men,
For years I criticised their prose and verges:
Pointed out all their blunders of the pen,
Their shallowness of thought and feeling; then
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Ambrose Bierce
Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot
Neque sermonibus vulgi dederis te, nec in prmiis spem posueris rerum tuarum; suiste oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus. Quid de te alii loquantur, ipsi videant,sed loquentur tamen.
(Cicero, De Re Publica VI.23)["... you will not any longer attend to the vulgar mob's gossip nor put your trust in human rewards for your deeds; virtue, through her own charms, should lead you to true glory. Let what others say about you be their concern; whatever it is, they will say it anyway."
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said,
Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.
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Alexander Pope
Joconde
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore,
Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store;
Each FAIR, with anxious look, his favours sought,
And ev'ry heart within his net was caught.
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Jean De La Fontaine
From 'the Testament Of Beauty'
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun
squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood
his lov'd works as in turn he biddeth them Good-night;
and all the towers and temples and mansions of men
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Robert Seymour Bridges
Annie Marshall The Foundling
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry,
And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry
And he loved Annie Marshall as dear as his life,
And he resolved to make her his own loving wife.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
Life, The Dilemma
I question myself in my most solemn moments;
What is life worth, why do I live?
Yet people like me die every day,
I know my day shall come, but never guess when
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Seke Bharu
Love Dilemma
There's fire in ya heart
There's love in ya eyes
Roll it with tears rolling down
Hold it with ya face smiling dawn
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Adamu Sule
Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot; Or, Prologue To The Satires
ADVERTISEMENT.
This paper is a sort of bill of complaint, begun many years since, and drawn up by snatches, as the several occasions offered. I had no thoughts of publishing it, till it pleased some persons of rank and fortune (the authors of 'Verses to the Imitator of Horace,' and of an 'Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court') to attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my writings (of which, being public, the public is judge) but my person, morals, and family, whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requisite. Being divided between the necessity to say something of myself, and my own laziness to undertake so awkward a task, I thought it the shortest way to put the last hand to this epistle. If it have anything pleasing, it will be that by which I am most desirous to please, the truth and the sentiment; and if anything offensive, it will be only to those I am least sorry to offend, the vicious or the ungenerous.
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Alexander Pope
Parallel
The fluttering butterflies
Alighting on the vibrant gladiolus ;
Sketching the silhouette
Of a love so passionate.
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Boston
There was a young lady from Boston,
A two-horned dilemma was tossed on,
As to which was the best,
To be rich in the west
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Unknown
Bewick And Grahame
The Text is from several broadsides and chap-books, but mainly depends on a stall-copy entitled The Song of Bewick and Grahame, approximately dated 1740. Sir Walter Scott considered this ballad 'remarkable, as containing probably the very latest allusion to the institution of brotherhood in arms' (see 14.4, and the use of the word 'bully'); but Child strongly suspects there was an older and better copy than those extant, none of which is earlier than the eighteenth century.
The Story is concerned with two fathers, who boast about their sons, and cause the two lads to fight. Christy Graham is faced with the dilemma of fighting either his father or his brother-in-arms, and decides to meet the latter; but, should he kill his friend, he determines not to return alive. Young Bewick takes a similar vow. They fight two hours, and at last an 'ackward' stroke kills Bewick, and Christy falls on his sword. The two fathers lament, and the ballad-singer finishes by putting the blame on them.
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Frank Sidgwick
Ozymandias
Be'twixt fortune and dilemma
myriads of us stood aspiring
with tens in control, stalwart in winter and summer
and us decrepit, frail yet hoping
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Aramide Opeolu
Un Vision
Light beams at the end of our sight
The bare plain road we walk through
Many are there that talk while they walk
The long journey tunneled down to a funnel
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Chibuzo Augustine
Heal The World
Our world is sick,
Who can help?
No man can help except God.
Earth suffering from the wickedness of man.
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Daniel Onuoha
Rip
Rip, an inarticulate dog with a namesake derivative of more.
Rip arrives as a pup, large, abounding with energy though somewhat clumsy in his gait. But Rip is no matter of fact bowser - the type that woofs approvingly at your presence then is content to carry himself off to a corner and deliver up his bulk with an unrelieved sigh. Nevertheless, one does suspect his nose is wet (or as shiny) as a washcloth but such familiarities are not extended to strange dogs.
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Paul Cameron Brown
An Epistle To Mr. Gay[1]
How could you, Gay, disgrace the Muse's train,
To serve a tasteless court twelve years in vain![2]
Fain would I think our female friend [3] sincere,
Till Bob,[4] the poet's foe, possess'd her ear.
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Jonathan Swift
Breaking My Heart
You can't go away
After you break my heart,
You can't just go ,after breaking my heart
You can't dash away, after demolishing my heart.
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Panashe Chigwedere
Soul Foresaw
So I sat
So I sought beyond thought
So I felt beyond pleasure
So I sank deep beyond mind
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Inno Katz
Beautifully Broken Soul
Dashing young phoenix with a unicorn’s horn as he makes his entrance.
Looking so perfectly flawless with the dash of bliss in that smile,
Making light of the moment and surfing the world for the moment;
Strung up by the compelling call of Mother Nature,
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Omokpariola Elshalom