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The term "obstacle" has been searched for 16 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on June 2nd, 2005.
1. Hidden Things - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1908.
Read 932 times on Poetry Connection.
Let them not seek to discover who I was
from all that I have done and said.
An obstacle was there that transformed
the deeds and the manner of my life.
An obstacle was there that stopped me
many times when I was about to speak.
Only from my most... (Read full poem)
2. Hidden - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Read 732 times on Poetry Connection.
From all I've done and all I've said
let them not seek to find who I've been.
An obstacle stood and transformed
my acts and way of my life.
An obstacle stood and stopped me
many a time as I was going to speak.
My most unobserved acts,
and my... (Read full poem)
3. Going Blind - written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Read 2862 times on Poetry Connection.
She sat just like the others at the table.
But on second glance, she seemed to hold her cup
a little differently as she picked it up.
She smiled once. It was almost painful.
And when they finished and it was time to stand
and slowly, as chance... (Read full poem)
4. She's All My Fancy Painted Him - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 990 times on Poetry Connection.
She's all my fancy painted him
(I make no idle boast);
If he or you had lost a limb,
Which would have suffered most?
He said that you had been to her,
And seen me here before;
But, in another character,
She was the same of yore.... (Read full poem)
5. Remember, Body... - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1918.
Read 1125 times on Poetry Connection.
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds on which you lay,
but also those desires which for you
plainly glowed in the eyes,
and trembled in the voice -- and some
chance obstacle made them futile.
Now that all belongs to the... (Read full poem)
6. Le Gout du Néant - written by Charles Baudelaire
Read 1843 times on Poetry Connection.
Morne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte,
L'Espoir, dont l'éperon attisait ton ardeur,
Ne veut plus t'enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur,
Vieux cheval dont le pied à chaque obstacle bute.
Résigne-toi, mon coeur; dors ton... (Read full poem)
7. Tortoise Family Connections - written by D.H. Lawrence
Published in 1918.
Read 1349 times on Poetry Connection.
On he goes, the little one,
Bud of the universe,
Pediment of life.
Setting off somewhere, apparently.
Whither away, brisk egg?
His mother deposited him on the soil as if he were no more than droppings,
And now he scuffles tinily past her as if she... (Read full poem)
8. A Prayer For My Daughter - written by William Butler Yeats
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
Published in 1921.
Read 5923 times on Poetry Connection.
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory's wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind.
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;
And... (Read full poem)
9. The Pangolin - written by Marianne Moore
Published in 1936.
Read 4207 times on Poetry Connection.
Another armored animal--scale
lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
form the uninterrupted central
tail-row! This near artichoke with head and legs and grit-equipped
gizzard,
the night miniature artist engineer is,... (Read full poem)
10. ORIGINAL PREFACE. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Read 486 times on Poetry Connection.
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a
work of the character of that indicated by the title-page to the
present volume; for, difficult as it must always be to render satisfactorily
into one's own tongue the writings... (Read full poem)
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