10 Best Famous Breathing Space Poems

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

• All Famous Breathing Space Poems

To-day is but a breathing space, quaff wine!
Thou wilt not see again this life of thine;
So, as the world becomes the spoil of time,
Offer thyself to be the spoil of wine!

 We were all one heart and one race
 When the Abbey trumpets blew.
 For a moment's breathing-space
 We had forgotten you.
 Now you return to your honoured place
 Panting to shame us anew.

 We have walked with the Ages dead--
 With our Past alive and ablaze.
 And you bid us pawn our honour for bread,
 This day of all the days!
 And you cannot wait till our guests are sped,
 Or last week's wreath decays?

 The light is still in our eyes
 Of Faith and Gentlehood,
 Of Service and Sacrifice;
 And it does not match our mood,
 To turn so soon to your treacheries
 That starve our land of her food.

 Our ears still carry the sound
 Of our once-Imperial seas,
 Exultant after our King was crowned,
 Beneath the sun and the breeze.
 It is too early to have them bound
 Or sold at your decrees.

 Wait till the memory goes,
 Wait till the visions fade,
 We may betray in time, God knows,
 But we would not have it said,
 When you make report to our scornful foes,
 That we kissed as we betrayed!

 Tell, if thou canst, and truly, whence doth come
This camphire, storax, spikenard, galbanum,
These musks, these ambers, and those other smells
Sweet as the Vestry of the Oracles.
I'll tell thee:—while my Julia did unlace
Her silken bodice but a breathing space,
The passive air such odour then assumed
As when to Jove great Juno goes perfumed,
Whose pure immortal body doth transmit
A scent that fills both heaven and earth with it.