Famous Beamy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Alastor: or the Spirit of Solitude

...eneath the sinuous veil
Of woven wind, her outspread arms now bare,
Her dark locks floating in the breath of night,
Her beamy bending eyes, her parted lips
Outstretched, and pale, and quivering eagerly. 
His strong heart sunk and sickened with excess
Of love. He reared his shuddering limbs, and quelled
His gasping breath, and spread his arms to meet
Her panting bosom:--she drew back awhile,
Then, yielding to the irresistible joy,
With frantic gesture and short breathless cry
...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Astrophel and Stella

...VII 

When Nature made her chief worke, Stellas eyes,
In colour blacke why wrapt she beames so bright?
Would she in beamy blacke, like Painter wise,
Frame daintiest lustre, mixt of shades and light?
Or did she else that sober hue deuise,
In obiect best to knitt and strength our sight;
Least, if no vaile these braue gleames did disguise,
They, sunlike, should more dazle then delight?
Or would she her miraculous power show,
That, whereas blacke seems Beauties contrar...Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip

Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work

...When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes,
In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright?
Would she in beamy black, like painter wise,
Frame daintiest lustre, mix'd of shades and light?
Or did she else that sober hue devise,
In object best to knit and strength our sight;
Lest, if no veil these brave gleams did disguise,
They, sunlike, should more dazzle than delight?
Or would she her miraculous power show,
That, whereas black seems beauty's contrary,
She even...Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip

Dawn Song

...ets call.


Bend on me no hasty frown
If my spirit slight your cares:
Sunlike still my joy looks down
Changing tears to beamy airs.


Think me not of fickle heart
If with joy my bosom swells
Though your ways from mine depart,
In the true are no farewells.


What I love in you I find
Everywhere. A friend I greet
In each flower and tree and wind—
Oh, but life is sweet, is sweet!


What to you are bolts and bars
Are to me the arms that guide
To the freedom of the stars,
Where my...Read more of this...
by Russell, George William

Elegy VI

...less flowers strowed on the waters face
The curled whirlpools suck, smack, and embrace,
Yet drown them; so, the taper's beamy eye
Amorously twinkling beckons the giddy fly,
Yet burns his wings; and such the devil is,
Scarce visiting them who are entirely his.
When I behold a stream which, from the spring,
Doth with doubtful melodious murmuring,
Or in a speechless slumber, calmly ride
Her wedded channels' bosom, and then chide
And bend her brows, and swell if any bough
Do but ...Read more of this...
by Donne, John


Love in the Valley

...e South-West, bring her back the truants,
Nightingale and swallow, song and dipping wing.

Soft new beech-leaves, up to beamy April
Spreading bough on bough a primrose mountain, you,
Lucid in the moon, raise lilies to the skyfields,
Youngest green transfused in silver shining through:
Fairer than the lily, than the wild white cherry:
Fair as in image my seraph love appears
Borne to me by dreams when dawn is at my eyelids:
Fair as in the flesh she swims to me on tears.

Could ...Read more of this...
by Meredith, George

Sonnet IX: Ye Who in Alleys Green

...flow'rs,
Weave your wild mazes o'er the dewy earth,
Ere the fierce Lord of Lustre rushes forth,
And o'er the world his beamy radiance pours!
Oft has your clanking cymbal's madd'ning strain,
Loud ringing through the torch-illumin'd grove,
Lur'd my lov'd Phaon from the youthful train,
Through rugged dells, o'er craggy rocks to rove; 
Then how can she his vagrant heart detain,
Whose Lyre throbs only to the touch of Love!...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Sonnet VII: When Nature

...When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes, 
In color black why wrapp'd she beams so bright? 
Would she in beamy black, like painter wise, 
Frame daintiest lustre, mix'd of shades and light? 

Or did she else that sober hue devise, 
In object best to knit and strength our sight, 
Lest if no veil those brave gleams did disguise, 
They sun-like should more dazzle than delight? 

Or would she her miraculous power show, 
That whereas black seems Beauty's contrary, 
S...Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip

Sonnet VIII: Love Born In Greece

...most ease and warmth he might employ his art: 
At length he perch'd himself in Stella's joyful face, 

Whose fair skin, beamy eyes, like morning sun on snow, 
Deceiv'd the quaking boy, who thought from so pure light 
Effects of lively heat must needs in nature grow. 

But she most fair, most cold, made him thence take his flight 
To my close heart, where while some firebrands he did lay, 
He burnt un'wares his wings, and cannot fly away....Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip

Sonnet XVIII: Why Art Thou Changd?

...mingling sigh with sigh,
I mark'd the graceful languor of thine eye
As on a shady bank entranc'd we lay:
O! Eyes! whose beamy radiance stole away
As stars fade trembling from the burning sky!
Why art thou chang'd? dear source of all my woes!
Though dark my bosom's tint, through ev'ry vein
A ruby tide of purest lustre flows,
Warm'd by thy love, or chill'd by thy disdain;
And yet no bliss this sensate Being knows;
Ah! why is rapture so allied to pain?...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Sonnet XXVI

...while from her northern heightGreat Juno's rival through the dusky nightHer beamy radiance shot. Returning careHad roused th' industrious hag, with footstep bare,And loins ungirt, the sleeping fire to light;And lovers thrill'd that season of despight,Which wont renew their tears, and wake despair.Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Constellations

...rds, the Swan uppoised 
On gleaming wings, the Dolphin gliding on 
With glistening scales, and that poetic steed, 
With beamy mane, whose hoof struck out from earth 
The fount of Hippocrene, and many more, 
Fair clustered splendors, with whose rays the Night 
Shall close her march in glory, ere she yield, 
To the young Day, the great earth steeped in dew. 
So spake the monitor, and I perceived 
How vain were my repinings, and my thought 
Went backward to the vanished years an...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

The Great Adventure of Max Breuck

...es.
The evening poured on them its benison,
And flower-scents, that only night-time frees,
Rose up around them from the beamy ground,
Silvered and shadowed by a tranquil moon.
Within the arbour, long they lay embraced,
In such enraptured sweetness as they found
Close-partnered each to each, and thinking soon
To be enwoven, long ere night to morning faced.

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At last Max spoke, "Dear Heart, this night is ours,
To watch it pale, together, into dawn,
Pressing our souls apart li...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

...der and fire: leading his starry hosts thro' the
waste wilderness [PL 27]he promulgates his ten commands, 
glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay,
Where the son of fire in his eastern cloud, while the
morning plumes her golden breast,
Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony
law to dust, loosing the eternal horses from the dens of night,
crying

Empire is no more! and now the lion & wolf shall cease.


Chorus

Let the Priests of the Raven of ...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Triumph Of Time

...AN>To brainless men. But Wisdom o'er the fieldCasts her keen glance, and lifts her beamy shieldTo meet the point of Fate, that flies afar,And with stern vigilance expects the war.Perhaps in vain my admonitions fall,Yet still the Muse repeats the solemn call;Nor can she see unmoved your senses drown'dBy Circe's...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

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