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Famous Chimed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brooke, Rupert
...e eyes I loved. 
The cup was filled. The bodies moved.
The drifting petal came to ground. 
The laughter chimed its perfect round. 
The broken syllable was ended. 
And I, so certain and so friended, 
How could I cloud, or how distress,
The heaven of your unconsciousness? 
Or shake at Time’s sufficient spell, 
Stammering of lights unutterable? 
The eternal holiness of you, 
The timeless end, you never knew,
The peace that lay, the light that shone. 
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by Hardy, Thomas
...ir enterprise?'...

XIII 
Some in the background then I saw,
Sweet women, youths, men, all incredulous,
Who chimed as one: 'This is figure is of straw,
This requiem mockery! Still he lives to us!'

XIV 
I could not prop their faith: and yet
Many I had known: with all I sympathized;
And though struck speechless, I did not forget
That what was mourned for, I, too, once had prized.

XV 
Still, how to bear such loss I deemed
The insistent question for each animate...Read more of this...

by Newbolt, Sir Henry
...ride with Picton and with Pack, 
Among his grammars inly burned 
To storm the Afghan mountain-track. 
When midnight chimed, before Quebec 
He watched with Wolfe till he morning star; 
At noon he saw from Victory's deck 
The sweep and splendour of England's war. 

Beyond the book his teaching sped, 
He left on whom he taught the trace 
Of kinship with the deathless dead, 
And faith in all the Island race. 
He passed : his life a tangle seemed, 
His age from fame an...Read more of this...

by Lowell, Amy
...light which seeped in under the window curtains,
And lay there, shivering,
While the bells of St. George the Martyr chimed the quarter after 
seven....Read more of this...

by Symons, Arthur
...nite. 

The very day was not too long; 
I felt so patient; I could wait, 
Being certain. So, the hours in song 
Chimed out the minutes of my fate. 

For she was coming, she, at last, 
I knew: I knew that bolts and bars 
Could stay her not; my heart throbbed fast, 
I was not more certain of the stars. 

The twilight came, grew deeper; now 
The hour struck, minutes passed, and still 
The passionate fervour of her vow 
Ran in my heart's ear audible. 

I had n...Read more of this...



by Lowell, Amy
...the open clasp. The locket's edge
Cut at her fingers like a pushing wedge.
A heavy cart went by, a distant bell
Chimed ten, the fire flickered in the grate.
She was alone. Her throat began to swell
With sobs. What kept her here, why should she wait?
The violin she had begun to hate
Lay in its case before her. Here she flung
The cover open. With the fiddle swung
Over her head, the hanging clock's loud ticking
Caught on her ear. 'Twas slow, and a...Read more of this...

by Benet, Stephen Vincent
...tend her; 
Come, piteous, gentle love, and set me free!" 

He ceased -- and, slowly rising o'er the deep, 
A faint song chimed, grew clearer, till at last 
A golden horn of light began to creep 
Where the dumb ripples sweep, 
Making the sea one splendor where it passed. 

A golden boat! The bright oars rested soon, 
And the prow met the sand. The purple veils 
Misting the cabin fell. Fair as the moon 
When the morning comes too soon, 
And all the air is silver in ...Read more of this...

by Masefield, John
...cool wind go like grace 
About the sleeping market-place. 
The clock struck three, and sweetly, slowly, 
The bells chimed Holy, Holy, Holy; 
And in a second's pause there fell 
The cold note of the chapel bell. 
And then a cock crew, flapping wings, 
And summat made me think of things. 
How long those ticking clocks had gone 
From church to chapel, on and on, 
Ticking the time out, ticking slow 
To men and girls who'd come and go, 
And how they ticked in belfry d...Read more of this...

by Crowley, Aleister
...KUTH

Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe.
Only ablove me is a citron tinge
As if some echo of red, gold and lue
Chimed on the night and let its shadow through.
Yet I who am thus prisoned and exiled
Am the right heir of glory, the crowned child.

I match my might against my Fate's
I gird myself to reach the ultimate shores,
I arm myself the war to win:-
Lift up your heads, O mighty gates!
Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors!
The King of Glory shall come in....Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...d maybe we are all the same
That stip the body bare.'
 O my dear, O my dear.

But no dogs barked, and midnights chimed,
And through the chime she'd say,
'That was a lucky thought of mine,
My lover. looked so gay';
But heaved a sigh if the chambermaid
Looked half asleep all day.
 O my dear, O my dear.

'No, not another song,' siid he,
'Because my lady came
A year ago for the first time
At midnight to my room,
And I must lie between the sheets
When the clock...Read more of this...

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