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Famous Basses Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...timental traces
In your unletter’d, nameless faces!
In arioso trills and graces
 Ye never stray;
But gravissimo, solemn basses
 Ye hum away.


Ye are sae grave, nae doubt ye’re wise;
Nae ferly tho’ ye do despise
The hairum-scairum, ram-stam boys,
 The rattling squad:
I see ye upward cast your eyes—
 Ye ken the road!


Whilst I—but I shall haud me there,
Wi’ you I’ll scarce gang ony where—
Then, Jamie, I shall say nae mair,
 But quat my sang,
Content wi’ you to mak a pair.
 Wh...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses 
calomnies, vous avey conquis les coeurs. 

Zola, J'accuse


One was kicked in the stomach 
until he vomited, then 
 made to put back 
into his mouth what they had 
brought forth; when he tried to drown 
 in his own stew 
he was recovered. "You are 
worse than a ****** or Jew," 

the helmeted one said. "You 
are an intellectal. 
 I hate your brown 
sk...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip
...e still trembling underneath thy nail.
At thy well sharpen'd thumb from shore to shore
The treble squeaks for fear, the basses roar:
Echoes from Pissing-Alley, Shadwell call,
And Shadwell they resound from Aston Hall.
About thy boat the little fishes throng,
As at the morning toast, that floats along.
Sometimes as prince of thy harmonious band
Thou wield'st thy papers in thy threshing hand.
St. Andre's feet ne'er kept more equal time,
Not ev'n the feet of thy own Psyche's rhy...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John
...evening, clear and warm, 
11 She bathed in her still garden, while 
12 The red-eyed elders, watching, felt 

13 The basses of their beings throb 
14 In witching chords, and their thin blood 
15 Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna. 

II 

16 In the green water, clear and warm, 
17 Susanna lay. 
18 She searched 
19 The touch of springs, 
20 And found 
21 Concealed imaginings. 
22 She sighed, 
23 For so much melody. 

24 Upon the bank, she stood 
25 In the cool 
26 O...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace
...ng of flutes;
A bassoon grunted, and an oboe wailed;
The 'celli pizzicato-ed like great lutes,
And mutterings of double basses trailed
Away to silence, while loud harp-strings hailed
Their thin, bright colours down in such a scatter
They lost themselves amid the general clatter.
Frau Altgelt in the gallery, alone,
Felt lifted up into another world.
Before her eyes a thousand candles shone
In the great chandeliers. A maze of curled
And powdered periwigs past her eyes swirled.
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by Lowell, Amy



...of the air
Sound above all the sea and wind.

The sea and wind do then obey
And sighing, sighing double notes
Of double basses, content to play
A droning chord for the little throats--

The little throats that sing and rise
Up into the light with lovely ease
And a kind of magical, sweet surprise
To hear and know themselves for these--

For these little voices: the bee, the fly
The leaf that taps, the pod that breaks,
The breeze on the grass-tops bending by,
The shrill quick s...Read more of this...
by Mansfield, Katherine

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