Famous Built To Last Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Built To Last poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous built to last poems. These examples illustrate what a famous built to last poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...vate soul,
Beckon it when to go and came,
Self-announced its hour of doom?
Fair the soul's recess and shrine,
Magic-built to last a season;
Masterpiece of love benign,
Fairer that expansive reason
Whose omen't is, and sign.
Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know
What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?
Verdict which accumulates
From lengthening scroll of human fates,
Voice of earth to earth returned,
Prayers of saints that inly burned,--
Saying, What is excellent...Read more of this...
by
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...The south-wind brings
Life, sunshine, and desire,
And on every mount and meadow
Breathes aromatic fire,
But over the dead he has no power,
The lost, the lost he cannot restore,
And, looking over the hills, I mourn
The darling who shall not return.
I see my empty house,
I see my trees repair their boughs,
And he, —the wondrous child,
Whose silver warbl...Read more of this...
by
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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