Famous Branchy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Duns Scotuss Oxford

...Towery city and branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded;
The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did
Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; 
Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours
That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded
Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded
Rural r...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley


Road-Song of the Bandar-Log

...shape of a Cupid's bow?
 Now you're angry, but -- never mind,
 Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!


Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two -- 
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.
 Now we're going to -- never mind,
 Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!


All the talk we ever have heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird -- 
Hide or fin or scale or...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Sir Galahad

...and mail; 
But o'er the dark a glory spreads, 
And gilds the driving hail. 
I leave the plain, I climb the height; 
No branchy thicket shelter yields; 
But blessed forms in whistling storms 
Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. 

A maiden knight--to me is given 
Such hope, I know not fear; 
I yearn to breathe the airs of heaven 
That often meet me here. 
I muse on joy that will not cease, 
Pure spaces clothed in living beams, 
Pure lilies of eternal peace, 
Whose odours hau...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The House That Was

...
By homelier thorns; and whether the rain drifts 
Or sun scortches, he holds the downs in ken, 
The western vales; his branchy tiers he lifts, 
Older than many a generation of men....Read more of this...
by Binyon, Laurence

The Talking Oak

...while he sinks or swells 
The full south-breeze around thee blow 
The sound of minster bells. 

The fat earth feed thy branchy root, 
That under deeply strikes! 
The northern morning o'er thee shoot, 
High up, in silver spikes! 

Nor ever lightning char thy grain, 
But, rolling as in sleep, 
Low thunders bring the mellow rain, 
That makes thee broad and deep! 

And hear me swear a solemn oath, 
That only by thy side 
Will I to Olive plight my troth, 
And gain her for my brid...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


The Vernal Age

...he evening breezes sigh
Solitary, there stray I.

Close along the shaded stream,
Source of many a youthful dream,
Where branchy cedars dim the day
There I muse, and there I stray.

Yet, what can please amid this bower,
That charmed the eye for many an hour!
The budding leaf is lost to me,
And dead the bloom on every tree.

The winding stream, that glides along,
The lark, that tunes her early song,
The mountain's brow, the sloping vale,
The murmuring of the western gale,

Have...Read more of this...
by Freneau, Philip

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