SpletSoon after his visit to the British Museum, John Keats wrote the poem “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” to share his experiences. “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”. – John Keats. My spirit is too weak – mortality. Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep. Of godlike hardship tells me I must die. SpletThere was a man with a marble eye, The eye was red, the hair was white. When kids looked up, they began to cry, Even grown men took to flight.
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SpletAbout Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators ... SpletMarble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du. In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars. dalton ga to tifton ga
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Spletmarble eyes May 2015 They Are Watching//They Are Disappointed. they like to hide in the walls i have never seen them and i have never heard them speak out loud but i think i felt their hands slide gently up my spine and. they grasped at the back of my neck and they squeezed down. they watched me squirm until they let go and they laughed ... SpletAnd the marble, alive With colour and fruits Would that it were, That thoughts were unthought, And wars unfought, And the new world yet to be found Would that it were, That the birds could be heard, When the snow lay unstirred, And only the trees drew from the ground Would that it were, That the only blanket was the stars, And the only sound SpletThat the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks a-crow. Swear by those horsemen, by those women, Complexion and form prove superhuman, That pale, long visaged … dalton ga to hoschton ga