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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ADVENTURER, by JOHN WARWICK DANIEL III First Line: Defiantly impatient, I prod the flank of fate Last Line: No man denied her kisses were divine. | |||
Defiantly impatient, I prod the flank of fate And urge the lagging hour to bear me on; Each day I tell my soul I cannot wait For years to pass before the month has gone. My vision taunts the present's pointless change, A dreamer's hunger gnaws my heaving breast; The fields of distance shine with bright unrest And I demand of life a wider range. Away with simple rules of sure success, To venture is to find a dearer prize; Soft lips, and rounded cheeks and women's thighs -- What heaven could offer more or less? Though Circe turned her lovers into swine, No man denied her kisses were divine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIS IMMORTALITY by THOMAS HARDY ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 3. TO THE CUCKOO by MARK AKENSIDE A FRESHET by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM WILD CHERRY TREE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN MANIAC'S SONG by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD CHALSE A KILLEY; TO CHALSE IN HEAVEN by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN VERSES ON DANGER OF ATTACHING WRONG IDEAS TO WORDS OR EPITHETS by JOHN BYROM |
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