10 Best Famous Annabelle Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Annabelle poems. This is a select list of the best famous Annabelle poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Annabelle poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of annabelle poems.

• All Famous Annabelle Poems

 Herbert broke our engagement of eight years
When Annabelle returned to the village
From the Seminary, ah me!
If I had let my love for him alone
It might have grown into a beautiful sorrow --
Who knows? -- filling my life with healing fragrance.
But I tortured it, I poisoned it,
I blinded its eyes, and it became hatred --
Deadly ivy instead of clematis.
And my soul fell from its support,
Its tendrils tangled in decay.
Do not let the will play gardener to your soul
Unless you are sure
It is wiser than your soul's nature.

 Little Annabelle to please,
 (Lacking grace, I grant),
Grandpa down on hands and knees
 Plays the elephant.
Annabelle shrieks with delight,
 Bouncing up and down,
On his back and holding tight
 To his dressing gown.

As they roll and bowl along,
 Round and round the room,
There is sunshine and a song
 'Spite December gloom.
Yet we hear not Grandpa's groans,
 Hushed his beard inside,
As his old rheumatic bones
 Ache with every stride.

He has known his golden days,
 Soldiered with the best;
And to prove the people's praise
 Medals bright his breast.
Yet though his renown we chant,
 How we love him well
When he plays the elephant
 Just for Annabelle!

 All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me
Sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness
Of spirit and contempt of your soul's rights
Which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you.
You really grew to hate me for love of me,
Because I was your soul's happiness,
Formed and tempered
To solve your life for you, and would not.
But you were my misery. If you had been
My happiness would I not have clung to you?
This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.