Famous 14 Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous 14 poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous 14 poems. These examples illustrate what a famous 14 poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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75. Halloween

...tlin!
She thro’ the whins, an’ by the cairn,
 An’ owre the hill gaed scrievin;
Whare three lairds’ lan’s met at a burn, 14
 To dip her left sark-sleeve in,
 Was bent that night.


Whiles owre a linn the burnie plays,
 As thro’ the glen it wimpl’t;
Whiles round a rocky scar it strays,
 Whiles in a wiel it dimpl’t;
Whiles glitter’d to the nightly rays,
 Wi’ bickerin’, dancin’ dazzle;
Whiles cookit undeneath the braes,
 Below the spreading hazel
 Unseen that night.


Amang the b...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...erb; 
Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with irresistible power; 
How dare you place anything before a man? 

14
Fall behind me, States!
A man before all—myself, typical before all. 

Give me the pay I have served for! 
Give me to sing the song of the great Idea! take all the rest; 
I have loved the earth, sun, animals—I have despised riches, 
I have given alms to every one that ask’d, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted
 my
 income and labor to others,
I hav...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Beowulf (Modern English)

...venants, likewise the giants
who struggled against God for many ages—
who gave them back their just deserts. (ll. 99-114)

 

II.

Then Grendel departed to seek out, after the night had fallen,
that high house, how the Ring-Danes had occupied it
after their beer-taking—he discovered therein
a company of noblemen slumbering after their feast—
they knew no sorrow, no misery of mankind.
That wicked creature, grim and greedy,
was instantly ready, savage and severe,
...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Dickinson Poems by Number

...14

One Sister have I in our house,
And one, a hedge away.
There's only one recorded,
But both belong to me.

One came the road that I came—
And wore my last year's gown—
The other, as a bird her nest,
Builded our hearts among.

She did not sing as we did—
It was a different tune—
Herself to her a music
As Bumble bee of June.

Today is far f...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Essay on Man

..., 
Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms, 
Pours fierce Ambition in a Caesar's(13) mind, 
Or turns young Ammon(14) loose to scourge mankind? 
From pride, from pride, our very reas'ning springs; 
Account for moral as for nat'ral things: 
Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit? 
In both, to reason right is to submit. 
Better for Us, perhaps, it might appear, 
Were there all harmony, all virtue here; 
That never air or ocean felt the wind; 
That never passion di...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


Hurry Up Please Its Time

...me. La de dah. 
You grow a beard but our drool is identical. 

Forgive us, Father, for we know not. 

Today is November 14th, 1972. 
I live in Weston, Mass., Middlesex County, 
U.S.A., and it rains steadily 
in the pond like white puppy eyes. 
The pond is waiting for its skin. 
the pond is waiting for its leather. 
The pond is waiting for December and its Novocain. 

It begins: 

Interrogator: 
What can you say of your last seven days? 

Anne: 
They were tired. 

Interrogator...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Plutonian Ode

...peech,
thus empower this Mind-guard spirit gone out, gone
 out, gone beyond, gone beyond me, Wake space,
 so Ah!

 July 14, 1978...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

Poem of Joys

...nd sonorous voice, out of a broad chest, 
To confront with your personality all the other personalities of the earth. 

14
Know’st thou the excellent joys of youth? 
Joys of the dear companions, and of the merry word, and laughing face? 
Joys of the glad, light-beaming day—joy of the wide-breath’d games?
Joy of sweet music—joy of the lighted ball-room, and the dancers? 
Joy of the friendly, plenteous dinner—the strong carouse, and drinking? 

15
Yet, O my soul supreme! 
Know’...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Requiem

...or the sweet coolness of a hand
The anxious shade of lime trees
Nor the light distant sound
Of final comforting words.
[14 May 1940. Fontannyi Dom]

X
CRUCIFIXION

Weep not for me, mother.
I am alive in my grave.

1.
A choir of angels glorified the greatest hour,
The heavens melted into flames.
To his father he said, 'Why hast thou forsaken me!'
But to his mother, 'Weep not for me. . .'
[1940. Fontannyi Dom]

2.
Magdalena smote herself and wept,
The favourite disciple turned ...Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

Song of Myself

...ds never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me; 
And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

14
The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night; 
Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation; 
(The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen close; 
I find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.) 

The sharp-hoof’d moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the
 chickadee, the prairie-dog,
The litt...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of the Exposition

...sake of that, my beauty—and that thou might’st dally, as now, secure up there, 
Many a good man have I seen go under. 

14
Now here, and these, and hence, in peace all thine, O Flag! 
And here, and hence, for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them! 
And here and hence, O Union, all the work and workmen thine!
The poets, women, sailors, soldiers, farmers, miners, students thine! 
None separate from Thee—henceforth one only, we and Thou; 
(For the blood of the children—what ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of the Open Road

...ll that you leave them behind you, 
To know the universe itself as a road—as many roads—as roads for traveling souls. 

14
The Soul travels; 
The body does not travel as much as the soul;
The body has just as great a work as the soul, and parts away at last for the journeys of
 the
 soul.


All parts away for the progress of souls; 
All religion, all solid things, arts, governments,—all that was or is apparent upon this
 globe
 or
 any globe, falls into niches and corners bef...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Bride of Abydos

...] 
With sabre stroke right sharply dealt; 
Nor mark'd the javelin-darting crowd, 
Nor heard their Ollahs wild and loud [14] — 
He thought but of old Giaffir's daughter! 

X. 

No word from Selim's bosom broke; 
One sigh Zuleika's thought bespoke: 
Still gazed he through the lattice grate, 
Pale, mute, and mournfully sedate. 
To him Zuleika's eye was turn'd, 
But little from his aspect learn'd; 
Equal her grief, yet not the same: 
Her heart confess'd a gentler flame: 
But yet ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Comedian As The Letter C

...ilts, the eye of Crispin, hung 
12 On porpoises, instead of apricots, 
13 And on silentious porpoises, whose snouts 
14 Dibbled in waves that were mustachios, 
15 Inscrutable hair in an inscrutable world. 

16 One eats one pat¨¦, even of salt, quotha. 
17 It was not so much the lost terrestrial, 
18 The snug hibernal from that sea and salt, 
19 That century of wind in a single puff. 
20 What counted was mythology of self, 
21 Blotched out beyond unblotching. Crispi...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

The Growth of Love

...graced the greeting of my heart;
They were proud drops and had my leave to fall,
Not on thy pity for my pain to call. 

14
When sometimes in an ancient house where state
From noble ancestry is handed on,
We see but desolation thro' the gate,
And richest heirlooms all to ruin gone;
Because maybe some fancied shame or fear,
Bred of disease or melancholy fate,
Hath driven the owner from his rightful sphere
To wander nameless save to pity or hate: 
What is the wreck of all he hat...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour

The Knights Tale

...o say;
But to the effect: it happen'd on a day
(To tell it you as shortly as I may),
A worthy duke that hight Perithous
That fellow was to the Duke Theseus
Since thilke* day that they were children lite** *that **little
Was come to Athens, his fellow to visite,
And for to play, as he was wont to do;
For in this world he loved no man so;
And he lov'd him as tenderly again.
So well they lov'd, as olde bookes sayn,
That when that one was dead, soothly to sayn,
His fellow wen...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Man of Laws Tale

...their holiness aside *a little of*
As for the time, it may no better betide.

On her he got a knave* child anon, *male 
And to a Bishop and to his Constable eke
He took his wife to keep, when he is gone
To Scotland-ward, his foemen for to seek.
Now fair Constance, that is so humble and meek,
So long is gone with childe till that still
She held her chamb'r, abiding Christe's will

The time is come, a knave child she bare;
Mauricius at the font-stone they him call.
This Con...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

...conscience.
only for the sake of present ease or gratification?
_______________________________________________

PLATE 14

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire
at the end of six thousand years is true. as I have heard from
Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to 
leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole 
creation will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas
it now appears finite & corrupt....Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Millers Tale

...And saide "Leman, love me well at once,
Or I will dien, all so God me save."
And she sprang as a colt doth in the trave:
And with her head she writhed fast away,
And said; "I will not kiss thee, by my fay*. *faith
Why let be," quoth she, "let be, Nicholas,
Or I will cry out harow and alas!
Do away your handes, for your courtesy."
This Nicholas gan mercy for to cry,
And spake so fair, and proffer'd him so fast,
That she her love him granted at the last,
And swore her o...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Wife of Baths Tale

...re *needs, behoves
How merrily that other folkes fare?
For certes, olde dotard, by your leave,
Ye shall have [pleasure] 14 right enough at eve.
He is too great a niggard that will werne* *forbid
A man to light a candle at his lantern;
He shall have never the less light, pardie.
Have thou enough, thee thar* not plaine** thee *need **complain
Thou say'st also, if that we make us gay
With clothing and with precious array,
That it is peril of our chastity.
And yet, -- with sorrow...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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