Famous Atones Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dream Song 41: If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert)

...palms his ears and moans.
Death is a German expert. Scrambling, sitting,
spattering, we hurry.
I try to. Odd & trivial, atones
somehow for my escape a bullet splitting
my trod-on instep, fiery.

The cantor bubbled, rattled. The Temple burned.
Lurch with me! phantoms of Varshava. Slop!
When I used to be,
who haunted, stumbling, sewers, my sacked shop,
roofs, a dis-world ai! Death was a German
home-country....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John


Hymn 46 part 1

...ms,
Our souls are filled with awe divine
To see what God performs.

When sinners break the Father's laws,
The dying Son atones;
O the dear myst'ries of his cross,
The triumph of his groans

Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heav'nly plains;
Sweet cherubs learn Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.

O may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song!
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue....Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

Love And Marilyn Monroe

...r true or false, this colossal remark
 states a dazzling intention...

It might be the birth of a new Venus among us
It atones at the very least for such as Carrie Nation
For Miss Monroe will never be a blue nose,
 and perhaps we may hope
That there will be fewer blue noses because
 she has flourished --
Long may she flourish in self-delight and the joy
 of womanhood.
A nation haunted by Puritanism owes her homage and
gratitude.

Let us praise, to say it again, her spiritual ...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore

On The Massacre Of The Christians In Bulgaria

...till straitened in their rock-hewn sepulchre?
And was Thy Rising only dreamed by her
Whose love of Thee for all her sin atones?
For here the air is horrid with men's groans,
The priests who call upon Thy name are slain,
Dost Thou not hear the bitter wail of pain
From those whose children lie upon the stones?
Come down, O Son of God! incestuous gloom
Curtains the land, and through the starless night
Over Thy Cross a Crescent moon I see!
If Thou in very truth didst burst the to...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

Provide Provide

...d on what they knew;
Others on simply being true.
What worked for them might work for you.

No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
Or keeps the end from being hard.

Better to go down dignified
With boughten friendship at your side
Than none at all. Provide, provide!...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


Psalm 40 Part 2

...a sacrifice.

PAUSE.

No blood of beasts on altars shed
Could wash the conscience clean;
But the rich sacrifice he paid
Atones for all our sin.

Then was the great salvation spread,
And Satan's kingdom shook;
Thus by the woman's promised seed
The serpent's head was broke....Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

The Dream of Eugene Aram

...d, or sea, though he should be 
Ten thousand fathoms deep.

"So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, 
Till blood for blood atones! 
Ay, though he's buried in a cave, 
And trodden down with stones, 
And years have rotted off his flesh, -- 
The world shall see his bones!

"Oh God! that horrid, horrid dream 
Besets me now awake! 
Again--again, with dizzy brain, 
The human life I take: 
And my red right hand grows raging hot, 
Like Cranmer's at the stake.

"And still no peace for th...Read more of this...
by Hood, Thomas

The Last Ride Together

...wn for who can reach,
Ten lines, a statesman's life in each!
The flag stuck on a heap of bones,
A soldier's doing! what atones?
They scratch his name on the Abbey-stones.
My riding is better, by their leave.

VII.

What does it all mean, poet? Well,
Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell
What we felt only; you expressed
You hold things beautiful the best,
And pace them in rhyme so, side by side.
'Tis something, nay 'tis much: but then,
Have you yourself what's best for men?
A...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The White Cliffs

...,
To have just a week to spend,
When London is a city
Whose beauties never end!

VI 
When the sun shines on England, it atones 
For low-hung leaden skies, and rain and dim 
Moist fogs that paint the verdure on her stones 
And fill her gentle rivers to the brim. 
When the sun shines on England, shafts of light 
Fall on far towers and hills and dark old trees, 
And hedge-bound meadows of a green as bright— 
As bright as is the blue of tropic seas. 
When the sun shines, it is as...Read more of this...
by Miller, Alice Duer

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