Famous Breathers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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In Memoriam A. H. H.: 118. Contemplate all this work of Tim

...s youth;
Nor dream of human love and truth,
As dying Nature's earth and lime;
But trust that those we call the dead
Are breathers of an ampler day
For ever nobler ends. They say,
The solid earth whereon we tread
In tracts of fluent heat began,
And grew to seeming-random forms,
The seeming prey of cyclic storms,
Till at the last arose the man;

Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime,
The herald of a higher race,
And of himself in higher place,
If so he type this work of t...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make

...e my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead.
You still shall live—such virtue hath my pen—
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet LXXXI

...e my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen--
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

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