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The term "natural disaser acrostic poems" has been searched for 81 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on May 24th, 2005.
1. Acrostic - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 1676 times on Poetry Connection.
Little maidens, when you look
On this little story-book,
Reading with attentive eye
Its enticing history,
Never think that hours of play
Are your only HOLIDAY,
And that in a HOUSE of joy
Lessons serve but to annoy:
If in any HOUSE... (Read full poem)
3. To A Blossoming Pear Tree - written by James Wright
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Beautiful natural blossoms,
Pure delicate body,
You stand without trembling.
Little mist of fallen starlight,
Perfect, beyond my reach,
How I envy you.
For if you could only listen,
I would tell you something,
Something human.
An old man
Appeared... (Read full poem)
4. Poetry For Supper - written by R.S. Thomas
From Selected Poems: 1946-1968 (1986), Bloodaxe Books.
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'Listen, now, verse should be as natural
As the small tuber that feeds on muck
And grows slowly from obtuse soil
To the white flower of immortal beauty.'
'Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer
Said once about the long toil
That goes like blood... (Read full poem)
5. No Second Troy - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems.
Published in 1910.
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Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great.
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful... (Read full poem)
6. The Fascination Of What's Difficult - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems.
Published in 1910.
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The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to... (Read full poem)
7. A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Tower.
Published in 1928.
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O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For peg and Meg and Paris' love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.
Were I but there and none to hear
I'd have a peacock cry,
For... (Read full poem)
8. Something Childish, But Very Natural - written by Samuel Coleridge
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If I had but two little wings
And were a little feathery bird,
To you I'd fly, my dear!
But thoughts like these are idle things,
And I stay here.
But in my sleep to you I fly:
I'm always with you in my sleep!
The world is all one's... (Read full poem)
9. Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,
But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks
Wants war, wants wounds; weary his times, his tasks;
To do without, take tosses, and obey.
Rare patience roots in these, and, these away,
Nowhere.... (Read full poem)
10. Demon And Beast - written by William Butler Yeats
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
Published in 1921.
Read 1828 times on Poetry Connection.
For certain minutes at the least
That crafty demon and that loud beast
That plague me day and night
Ran out of my sight;
Though I had long perned in the gyre,
Between my hatred and desire.
I saw my freedom won
And all laugh in the sun.
The... (Read full poem)
11. 32. Natural Magic - written by George William Russell
From Collected Poems by A.E..
Published in 1913.
Read 1422 times on Poetry Connection.
WE air tired who follow after
Phantasy and truth that flies:
You with only look and laughter
Stain our hearts with richest dyes.
When you break upon our study
Vanish all our frosty cares;
As the diamond deep grows ruddy,
Filled with morning... (Read full poem)
12. 5. Tragic Fragment—All villain as I am - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1779.
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ALL villain as I am—a damnèd wretch,
A hardened, stubborn, unrepenting villain,
Still my heart melts at human wretchedness;
And with sincere but unavailing sighs
I view the helpless children of distress:
With tears indignant I behold the... (Read full poem)
13. 275. Song—The Laddie’s dear sel’ - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1789.
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THERE’S a youth in this city, it were a great pity
That he from our lassies should wander awa’;
For he’s bonie and braw, weel-favor’d witha’,
An’ his hair has a natural buckle an’ a’.
His coat is the... (Read full poem)
14. Twenty-Four Years - written by Dylan Thomas
Published in 1938.
Read 3543 times on Poetry Connection.
Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes.
(Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.)
In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor
Sewing a shroud for a journey
By the light of the meat-eating sun.
Dressed to... (Read full poem)
15. Tower Of Light - written by Pablo Neruda
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O tower of light, sad beauty
that magnified necklaces and statues in the sea,
calcareous eye, insignia of the vast waters, cry
of the mourning petrel, tooth of the sea, wife
of the Oceanian wind, O separate rose
from the long stem of the trampled... (Read full poem)
16. The City Limits - written by A.R. Ammons
From Collected Poems: 1951-1971.
Published in 1972.
Read 2406 times on Poetry Connection.
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
itself but pours its abundance without selection into every
nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider
that birds' bones make no awful noise against the light but
lie... (Read full poem)
17. Day Dream - written by A.S.J. Tessimond
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One day people will touch and talk perhaps
easily,
And loving be natural as breathing and warm as
sunlight,
And people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted,
Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers,
Unfurl, uncurl... (Read full poem)
18. Exchanging Hats - written by Elizabeth Bishop
From Uncollected Poems.
Published in 1956.
Read 4591 times on Poetry Connection.
Unfunny uncles who insist
in trying on a lady's hat,
--oh, even if the joke falls flat,
we share your slight transvestite twist
in spite of our embarrassment.
Costume and custom are complex.
The headgear of the other sex
inspires us to... (Read full poem)
19. 192. Song—The Bonie Lass of Albany - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1787.
Read 1022 times on Poetry Connection.
MY 1 heart is wae, and unco wae,
To think upon the raging sea,
That roars between her gardens green
An’ the bonie Lass of Albany.
This lovely maid’s of royal blood
That ruled Albion’s kingdoms three,
But oh, alas! for her... (Read full poem)
22. The Snapped Thread - written by Robert Graves
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Desire, first, by a natural miracle
United bodies, united hearts, blazed beauty;
Transcended bodies, transcended hearts.
Two souls, now unalterably one
In whole love always and for ever,
Soar out of twilight, through upper air,
Let fall... (Read full poem)
23. To the Grasshopper and the Cricket - written by James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Green little vaulter in the sunny grass,
Catching your heart up at the feel of June,
Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon,
When even the bees lag at the summoning brass;
And you, warm little housekeeper, who class
With those who... (Read full poem)
24. A New Age - written by W. H. Auden
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So an age ended, and its last deliverer died
In bed, grown idle and unhappy; they were safe:
The sudden shadow of a giant's enormous calf
Would fall no more at dusk across their lawns outside.
They slept in peace: in marshes here and there no... (Read full poem)
25. To A Lady - written by Thomas Hardy
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Offended by a Book of the Writer's
NOW that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe,
Never to press thy cosy cushions more,
Or wake thy ready Yeas as heretofore,
Or stir thy gentle vows of faith in me:
Knowing thy natural receptivity,
I figure... (Read full poem)
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