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Famous Browses Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hardy, Thomas
...n
Nestlings play,
Within walls of weathered stone,
Far away
From the files of formal houses,
By the bough the firstling browses,
Lives a Sweet: no merchants meet,
No man barters, no man sells
Where she dwells.

Upon that fabric fair
"Here is she!"
Seems written everywhere
Unto me.
But to friends and nodding neighbors,
Fellow wights in lot and labors,
Who descry the times as I,
No such lucid legend tells
Where she dwells.

Should I lapse to what I was
In days by--
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by Smart, Christopher
...a note added to the scale, which the Lord hath made fuller, stronger and more glorious. 

For I offer my goat as he browses the vine, bless the Lord from chambering and drunkeness. 

For there is a traveling for the glory of God without going to Italy or France. 

For I bless the children of Asher for the evil I did them and the good I might have received at their hands. 

For I rejoice like a worm in the rain in him that cherishes and from him that tramples.<...Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...ng a sleep;
Life death overtaking;
Deep underneath deep?

"Erect as a sunbeam,
Unspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses,
Undaunted and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
King leaves of his covert,
Your silence he sings.

"The waves, unashamed,
In difference sweet,
Play glad with the breezes,
Old playfellows meet;
The journeying atoms,
Primordial wholes,
Firmly draw, firmly drive,
By their animate poles.

"Sea, earth, air, sou...Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...waking a sleep,
Life death overtaking,
Deep underneath deep.

Erect as a sunbeam
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses
Undaunted and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
Kind leaves of his covert!
Your silence he sings.

The waves unashamed
In difference sweet,
Play glad with the breezes,
Old playfellows meet.
The journeying atoms,
Primordial wholes,
Firmly draw, firmly drive,
By their animate poles.

Sea, earth, air, sound, silence,
Plan...Read more of this...

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