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Famous Acacia Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...dar overarching frame
Most solemn domes within, and far below,
Like clouds suspended in an emerald sky,
The ash and the acacia floating hang
Tremulous and pale. Like restless serpents, clothed
In rainbow and in fire, the parasites,
Starred with ten thousand blossoms, flow around 
The gray trunks, and, as gamesome infants' eyes,
With gentle meanings, and most innocent wiles,
Fold their beams round the hearts of those that love,
These twine their tendrils with the wedded bo...Read more of this...



by Gluck, Louise
...Orange blossoms blowing over Castile
children begging for coins

I met my love under an orange tree
or was it an acacia tree
or was he not my love?

I read this, then I dreamed this:
can waking take back what happened to me?
Bells of San Miguel
ringing in the distance
his hair in the shadows blond-white

I dreamed this,
does that mean it didn't happen?
Does it have to happen in the world to be real?

I dreamed everything, the story
became my story:

he lay beside me,
m...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...t 
In violets blue as your eyes, 
To the woody hollows in which we meet 
And the valleys of Paradise. 

The slender acacia would not shake 
One long milk-bloom on the tree; 
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake, 
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea; 
But the rose was awake all night for your sake, 
Knowing your promise to me; 
The lilies and roses were all awake, 
They sigh'd for the dawn and thee. 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, 
Come hither, the danc...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...
 In violets blue as your eyes, 
To the woody hollows in which we meet 
 And the valleys of Paradise. 

The slender acacia would not shake 
 One long milk-bloom on the tree; 
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake, 
 As the pimpernel dozed on the lea; 
But the rose was awake all night for your sake, 
 Knowing your promise to me; 
The lilies and roses were all awake, 
 They sigh'd for the dawn and thee. 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, 
 Come hither, the...Read more of this...

by Berryman, John
...Acacia, burnt myrrh, velvet, pricky stings.
—I'm not so young but not so very old,
said screwed-up lovely 23.
A final sense of being right out in the cold,
unkissed.
(—My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist.) Women get under 
 things.

All these old criminals sooner or later
have had it. I've been reading old journals.
Got...Read more of this...



by Milosz, Czeslaw
...y not very old but quite famous.

"Farther, where strings of rain hang from a little cloud,
Under the hills with an acacia grove
Is Prague. Above it, a marvelous castle
Shored against a slope in accordance with old rules.

"What divides this land with white foam
Is the Alps. The black means fir forests.
Beyond them, bathing in the yellow sun
Italy lies, like a deep-blue dish.

"Among the many fine cities that are there
You will recogni2e Rome, Christen...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...scarlet-fever left my heart diseased.
Yet I lie here
Soothed by a secret none but Mary knows:
There is a garden of acacia,
Catalpa trees, and arbors sweet with vines --
There on that afternoon in June
By Mary's side --
Kissing her with my soul upon my lips
It suddenly took flight....Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...s they laid
In that tomb by him and her
His son George, the astrologer;
And Masons drove from miles away
To scatter the Acacia spray
Upon a melancholy man
Who had ended where his breath began.
Many a son and daughter lies
Far from the customary skies,
The Mall and Eades's grammar school,
In London or in Liverpool;
But where is laid the sailor John
That so many lands had known,
Quiet lands or unquiet seas
Where the Indians trade or Japanese?
He never found his rest ashore,...Read more of this...

by Wylie, Elinor
...to his roaming feet, 
And the skies are sunlit for him. 
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems 
As the fragrance of acacia. 
My own dear love, he is all my dreams, -- 
And I wish he were in Asia. 

My love runs by like a day in June, 
And he makes no friends of sorrows. 
He'll tread his galloping rigadoon 
In the pathway of the morrows. 
He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, 
Nor could storm or wind uproot him. 
My own dear love, he is all my h...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...n violets blue as your eyes, 
To the woody hollows in which we meet 
And the valleys of Paradise. 

The slender acacia would not shake 45 
One long milk-bloom on the tree; 
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake, 
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea; 
But the rose was awake all night for your sake, 
Knowing your promise to me; 50 
The lilies and roses were all awake, 
They sigh'd for the dawn and thee. 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, 
Come ...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...ledge one's soul to him, yet leave
Such a flaw in the indenture
As he'd miss till, past retrieve,
Blasted lay that rose-acacia
We're so proud of! _Hy, Zy, Hine ..._
'St, there's Vespers! _Plena grati
Ave, Virgo!_ Gr-r-r---you swine!...Read more of this...

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