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Famous Absorbs Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Voznesensky, Andrei
...ile life is getting shorter. 
 At night on faces, pale as blotter, 
 like a black hawk, or pumping hose, 
 the nose absorbs us, I suppose. 

 They say, the Northern Eskimos 
 kiss one another with the nose 

 It hasn't caught on here, of course.

© Copyright Alec Vagapov's translation...Read more of this...



by Hardy, Thomas
...res and snowcones are.

I learn to prophesy the hid eclipse,
The coming of eccentric orbs;
To mete the dust the sky absorbs,
To weigh the sun, and fix the hour each planet dips.

I witness fellow earth-men surge and strive;
Assemblies meet, and throb, and part;
Death's soothing finger, sorrow's smart;
--All the vast various moils that mean a world alive.

But that I fain would wot of shuns my sense--
Those sights of which old prophets tell,
Those signs the general...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...me advance to meet them—there is no fear of
 mistake,

(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr’d, till his country absorbs him as
 affectionately as he has absorb’d it.) 

He masters whose spirit masters—he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long
 run;
The blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstraint; 
In the need of poems, philosophy, politics, manners, engineering, an appropriate native
 grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft, he or she is greatest who co...Read more of this...

by Piutti, Anna
...Was I thinking so loudly?

A heart absorbs the absurd
on a regular basis.

Primordial fears and poisoned
skies are

stage smoke;

but fragrant whispers from
your skin are 

open windows
on relief.

And I see,
and I laugh:

I 
know
nothing.


Copyright ©2006 Anna Piutti....Read more of this...

by Bronte, Charlotte
...what he love would name, 
Though haply Gilbert's secret deeds 
Might other title claim.
Such theme not oft his mind absorbs, 
He to the world clings fast,
And too much for the present lives, 
To linger o'er the past. 

But now the evening's deep repose 
Has glided to his soul;
That moonlight falls on Memory, 
And shows her fading scroll.
One name appears in every line
The gentle rays shine o'er,
And still he smiles and still repeats 
That one name­Elinor. 

Th...Read more of this...



by Edson, Russell
...wagging its (well why not) tail, friendly 
chap. 

Hears footsteps, looks to find his own feet gone. 

The road absorbs everything with rumors of sleep. 

And then he looked for himself and even he was gone. 

Looked for the road and even that . . ....Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...were dark,
And,—if I tell you all my thought,
Though I comprehend it not,—
In those unfathomable orbs
Every function he absorbs;
He doth eat, and drink, and fish, and shoot,
And write, and reason, and compute,
And ride, and run, and have, and hold,
And whine, and flatter, and regret,
And kiss, and couple, and beget,
By those roving eye-balls bold;
Undaunted are their courages,
Right Cossacks in their forages;
Fleeter they than any creature,
They are his steeds and not his fea...Read more of this...

by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...As yon great Sun in his supreme condition 
Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, 
So does my love absorb each vain ambition 
Each outside purpose which my life has known. 
Stars cannot shine so near that vast orb's splendor, 
They are content to feed his flames of fire; 
And so my heart is satisfied to render 
Its strength, its all, to meet thy strong desire.

As in a forest when d...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...et, O days, O cities! 
Crash heavier, heavier yet, O storms! you have done me good;
My soul, prepared in the mountains, absorbs your immortal strong nutriment; 
—Long had I walk’d my cities, my country roads, through farms, only
 half-satisfied; 
One doubt, nauseous, undulating like a snake, crawl’d on the ground before me, 
Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; 
—The cities I loved so well, I abandon’d and left—I sped to the certainties...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...a>P.        What act, what dream, absorbs thee, O my soul?Say, must we peace, a truce, or warfare hail?H.    Our fate I know not; but her eyes unveilThe grief our woe doth in her heart enrol.P.    But that is vain, since by her eyes' cont...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...sing silv'ry light,
Sublimely still, and beautifully pale!
What can thy cool and placid eye avail,
Where fierce despair absorbs the mental sight,
While inbred glooms the vagrant thoughts invite,
To tempt the gulph where howling fiends assail?
O, Night! all nature owns thy temper'd pow'r;
Thy solemn pause, thy dews, thy pensive beam;
Thy sweet breath whisp'ring in the moonlight bow'r,
While fainting flow'rets kiss the wand'ring stream!
Yet, vain is ev'ry charm! and vain the ho...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...of the desart gleams,
And lurid horrors wing the fateful hours!
Now goaded frenzy grasps my shrinking brain,
Her touch absorbs the crystal fount of woe!
My blood rolls burning through each gasping vein;
Away, lost Lyre! unless thou can'st bestow
A charm, to lull that agonizing pain,
Which those who never lov'd, can never know!...Read more of this...

by Pope, Alexander
...thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?...Read more of this...

by Davies, William Henry
...r grief, 
And on my joys doth brood. 
Then do I see my life in parts; 
The earth receives my bones, 
The common air absorbs my mind--- 
It knows not flowers from stones....Read more of this...

by Edson, Russell
...
wagging its (well why not) tail, friendly chap. 

Hears footsteps, looks to find his own feet gone. 

The road absorbs everything with rumors of sleep. 

And then he looked for himself and even he was gone. 

Looked for the road and even that . . ....Read more of this...

by Verhaeren, Emile
...d
Toward that distance of eddying light,
The rope-maker, visionary white.
Along by each house and each garden wall.
Absorbs in himself the horizons all....Read more of this...

by Bronte, Charlotte
...­thanks ! thy love has joy, 
Pure­undefiled with base alloy; 
'Tis not a passion, false and blind, 
Inspires, enchains, absorbs my mind; 
Worthy, I feel, art thou to be 
Loved with my perfect energy. 

This evening, now, shall sweetly flow, 
Lit by our clear fire's happy glow; 
And parting's peace-embittering fear, 
Is warned, our hearts to come not near; 
For fate admits my soul's decree, 
In bliss or bale­to go with thee !...Read more of this...

by Bronte, Charlotte
...­thanks ! thy love has joy, 
Pure­undefiled with base alloy; 
'Tis not a passion, false and blind, 
Inspires, enchains, absorbs my mind; 
Worthy, I feel, art thou to be 
Loved with my perfect energy. 

This evening, now, shall sweetly flow, 
Lit by our clear fire's happy glow; 
And parting's peace-embittering fear, 
Is warned, our hearts to come not near; 
For fate admits my soul's decree, 
In bliss or bale­to go with thee !...Read more of this...

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