Escritas — Poems List

Jonathan Swift

Lines Written Extempore On Mr.

Lines Written Extempore On Mr. Harley’s Being Stabbed, And Addressed To
His Physician, 1710-11

On Britain Europe's safety lies,
Britain is lost if Harley dies:
Harley depends upon your skill:
Think what you save, or what you kill.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

When we lose one we

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

435

Jack Handey

Consider the daffodil. And while

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

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John Keats

Give Me Women, Wine, and

Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

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Bob Seger

there will always be pressures

there will always be pressures and time sin your life when you'll need answers, but coke and the rest offer nothing -- no outlet, no information. And, believe me, you're only as good as your information.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Book Of Love - Love's

Book Of Love - Love's Torments

LOVE's torments sought a place of rest,
Where all might drear and lonely be;
They found ere long my desert breast,
And nestled in its vacancy.

186

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

In general, in poetry and

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

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Hilaire Belloc

Kings live in Palaces, and

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

227

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are alone, absolutely alone

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

455

Henry Van Dyke

The Statue of Sherman by

The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens

This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that `war is hell':
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life.

131

Jack Handey

There should be a detective

There should be a detective show called 'Johnny Monkey,' because every week you could have a guy say 'I ain't gonna get caught by no MONKEY,' but then he would, and I don't think I'd ever get tired of that.

25

Emily Dickinson

It's such a little thing

It's such a little thing to weep

189

It's such a little thing to weep-
So short a thing to sigh-
And yet-by Trades-the size of these
We men and women die!

190

Nick Seitz

The breakfast of champions is

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

64

Emily Dickinson

I'll send the feather from

I'll send the feather from my Hat!

687

I'll send the feather from my Hat!
Who knows-but at the sight of that
My Sovereign will relent?
As trinket-worn by faded Child-
Confronting eyes long-comforted-
Blisters the Adamant!

233

Emily Dickinson

I had the Glory—that will

I had the Glory—that will do

349

I had the Glory—that will do—
An Honor, Thought can turn her to
When lesser Fames invite—
With one long "Nay"—
Bliss' early shape
Deforming—Dwindling—Gulfing up—
Time's possibility.

141

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

In Russia all tyrants believe

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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Emily Dickinson

For largest Woman's Hearth I

For largest Woman's Hearth I knew

309

For largest Woman's Hearth I knew'
Tis little I can do-
And yet the largest Woman's Heart
Could hold an Arrow-too-
And so, instructed by my own,
I tenderer, turn Me to.

197

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Cats regard people as warmblooded

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

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Jack Handey

It seemed to me that,

It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the way, pick up the telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it was just this squawking and cheeping. 'What What' I would yell back, but he never did speak English.

80

Emily Dickinson

Best Gains—must have the Losses'

Best Gains—must have the Losses' Test

684

Best Gains—must have the Losses' Test—
To constitute them—Gains—

159

George J. Seidel

The ability to relate and

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

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Edward Lear

There Was an Old Man

There Was an Old Man with a Beard

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.

182

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man

There was an Old Man of Thermopylae

There was an old man of Thermopylæ,
Who never did anything properly;
But they said, "If you choose, To boil eggs in your shoes,
You shall never remain in Thermopylæ."

131

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Poetry is like a bird,

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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