Famous Cinnabar Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Cinnabar poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cinnabar poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cinnabar poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Let Girdlestone, house of Girdlestone rejoice with Crysocarpum a kind of Ivy.
Let Homer, house of Homer rejoice with Cinnabar which makes a red colour.
Let Lenox, house of Lenox rejoice with Achnas the Wild Pear Tree. God be gracious to the Duke of Richmond.
Let Altham, house of Altham rejoice with the Everlasting Apple-Tree.
Let Travell, house of Travell rejoice with Ciborium The Egyptian Bean.
Let Tyers, house of Tyers rejoice with Ægilops a kind of bulbous root....Read more of this...
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Smart, Christopher
...A bonny bird I found today
Mired in a melt of tar;
Its silky breast was silver-grey,
Its wings were cinnabar.
So still it lay right in the way
Of every passing car.
Yet as I gently sought to pry
It loose, it glared at me;
You would have thought its foe was I,
It pecked so viciously;
So fiercely fought, as soft I sought
From death to set it free.
Its pinions pitifully frail
I wrested from the muck;
I feared the feathers of its tail
Would never come unstuc...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...aits,
The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates,
The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar,
Where first two men spread wings for flight and dared the hawk afar.
There stands the cunning workman, the crafty past all praise,
The man who chained the Minotaur, the man who built the Maze.
His young son is beside him and the boy's face is a light,
A light of dawn and wonder and of valor infinite.
Their great vans beat the cloven air, li...Read more of this...
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Benet, Stephen Vincent
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