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Famous Audibly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...ent before.



A star had set an hour before the sun
Sank from the skies wherethrough his heart's pulse yet
Thrills audibly: but few took heed, or none,
A star had set.

All heaven rings back, sonorous with regret,
The deep dirge of the sunset: how should one
Soft star be missed in all the concourse met?

But, O sweet single heart whose work is done,
Whose songs are silent, how should I forget
That ere the sunset's fiery goal was won
A star had set?...Read more of this...



by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...When I attain to utter forth in verse
Some inward thought, my soul throbs audibly
Along my pulses, yearning to be free
And something farther, fuller, higher, rehearse
To the individual, true, and the universe,
In consummation of right harmony:
But, like a wind-exposed distorted tree,
We are blown against for ever by the curse
Which breathes through Nature. Oh, the world is weak !
The effluence of each is false to all,
And what...Read more of this...

by de la Mare, Walter
...candle flame 
In the wind that through the window came. 
And sometimes in the silence she 
Would mumble a sentence audibly, 
Or shake her head as if to say, 
"You silly souls, to act this way!" 
And never a sound from night I'd hear, 
Unless some far-off cock crowed clear; 
Or her old shuffling thumb should turn 
Another page; and rapt and stern, 
Through her great glasses bent on me, 
She'd glance into reality; 
And shake her round old silvery head, 
With--"You!--I thou...Read more of this...

by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloud
Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind,
Then break against the rock, and show behind
The lowland valleys floating up to crowd
The sense with beauty. He with forehead bowed
And humble-lidded eyes, as one inclined
Before the sovran thought of his own mind,
And very meek with inspirations proud,
Takes here his rightful place as poet-priest
By the high altar, singi...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...e him chief 
Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent 
Eternal Father (for where is not he 
Present?) thus to his Son audibly spake. 
Let us make now Man in our image, Man 
In our similitude, and let them rule 
Over the fish and fowl of sea and air, 
Beast of the field, and over all the Earth, 
And every creeping thing that creeps the ground. 
This said, he formed thee, Adam, thee, O Man, 
Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathed 
The breath of life; in his ...Read more of this...



by Milton, John
...ned her eternal doors, from whence
The Spirit descended on me like a Dove;
And last, the sum of all, my Father's voice,
Audibly heard from Heaven, pronounced me his,
Me his beloved Son, in whom alone
He was well pleased: by which I knew the time
Now full, that I no more should live obscure,
But openly begin, as best becomes
The authority which I derived from Heaven.
And now by some strong motion I am led 
Into this wilderness; to what intent
I learn not yet. Perhaps I...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...saying all his force 
Is melted into mere effeminacy? 
O me, I fear that I am no true wife.' 

Half inwardly, half audibly she spoke, 
And the strong passion in her made her weep 
True tears upon his broad and naked breast, 
And these awoke him, and by great mischance 
He heard but fragments of her later words, 
And that she feared she was not a true wife. 
And then he thought, 'In spite of all my care, 
For all my pains, poor man, for all my pains, 
She is not faith...Read more of this...

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