Famous Coated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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against the ladling of doom

...crisis has a fact to get straight
it needn't be the end of the world
beginnings too are coated with death

because we've had enough of the old's
dirty jokes doesn't mean there's no
more grass ready to push itself up

or dreams can't go on being lived
the dreamers' necks having been twisted
(visions root in mists and spread outwards)
the chrysalis has to be taken apart
for the wings to erupt into freedom
ideas grow from the flesh they've grown i...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...ge, magnolia, 
Tangles as tangled in him as any cane-brake or swamp, 
He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
Off him pasturage, sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie, 
Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird,
 night-heron, and eagle; 
His spirit surrounding his country’s spirit, unclosed to good and evil, 
Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times, ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Galatea Encore

...though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't
talk. As though with the mercury in its sphincter,
immobile, by a leaf-coated pond
a statue stands white like a blight of winter.
After such snow, there is nothing indeed: the ins
and outs of centuries, pestered heather.
That's what coming full circle means - 
when your countenance starts to resemble weather,
when Pygmalion's vanished. And you are free
to cloud your folds, to bare the navel.
Future at last! That is, bleached de...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph

Gareth And Lynette

...cast it down, 
And from it like a fuel-smothered fire, 
That lookt half-dead, brake bright, and flashed as those 
Dull-coated things, that making slide apart 
Their dusk wing-cases, all beneath there burns 
A jewelled harness, ere they pass and fly. 
So Gareth ere he parted flashed in arms. 
Then as he donned the helm, and took the shield 
And mounted horse and graspt a spear, of grain 
Storm-strengthened on a windy site, and tipt 
With trenchant steel, around him slowly pre...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Having it Out with Melancholy

...


2BOTTLES


Elavil, Ludiomil, Doxepin, 
Norpramin, Prozac, Lithium, Xanax, 
Wellbutrin, Parnate, Nardil, Zoloft. 
The coated ones smell sweet or have 
no smell; the powdery ones smell 
like the chemistry lab at school 
that made me hold my breath.



3SUGGESTION FROM A FRIEND


You wouldn't be so depressed
if you really believed in God.



4OFTEN


Often I go to bed as soon after dinner 
as seems adult
(I mean I try to wait for dark)
in order to push away 
from the massive ...Read more of this...
by Kenyon, Jane


Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather

...useless arrows only, 
Paused to rest beneath a pine-tree, 
From whose branches trailed the mosses, 
And whose trunk was coated over 
With the Dead-man's Moccasin-leather, 
With the fungus white and yellow.
Suddenly from the boughs above him 
Sang the Mama, the woodpecker: 
"Aim your arrows, Hiawatha, 
At the head of Megissogwon, 
Strike the tuft of hair upon it, 
At their roots the long black tresses; 
There alone can he be wounded!"
Winged with feathers, tipped with jasper, ...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Koening Of The River

...th choking with lilies
and curtained with midges, Koenig poled the shallop
past the abandoned ferry and the ferry piles
coated with coal dust. Staying aboard, he saw, up
in a thick meadow, a sand-colored mule,
untethered, with no harness, and no signs
of habitation round the ruined factory wheel
locked hard in rust, and through whose spokes the vines
of wild yam leaves leant from overweight;
the wild bananas in the yellowish sunlight
were dugged like aching cows with unmilked...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

Moon Fishing

...moon to a heartless man?
Put back your hearts and get on your knees
and drink as you never have,
until your throats are coated with silver
and your voices ring like bells."

And they fished with their lips and tongues
until the water was gone
and the moon had slipped away
in the soft, bottomless mud....Read more of this...
by Mueller, Lisel

Morning Walk

...g sunshafts

in a duel

In the wall’s shadow I web

my prints to pattern

The moist stone virgins.

The lawns are white-coated

their throats red

With berries and bird-song;

in petrified gardens

Hyacinth tongues lip the wall.

Leaf mould muffles my heel-taps

the enormous trees totter

In the hyaline air; I hear the

Sunday strollers in their

Mist-making walks, pressing through them

like some voiceless ghost....Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Musketaquid

...soft and silvered air, 
And loiter willing by yon loitering stream. 
Sparrows far off, and nearer, April's bird, 
Blue-coated, flying before from tree to tree, 
Courageous sing a delicate overture 
To lead the tardy concert of the year. 
Onward and nearer rides the sun of May; 
And wide around, the marriage of the plants 
Is sweetly solemnized. Then flows amain 
The surge of summer's beauty; dell and crag, 
Hollow and lake, hillside and pine arcade, 
Are touched with genius....Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Musketaquid

...rn's soft and silvered air,
And loiter willing by yon loitering stream.
Sparrows far off, and, nearer, yonder bird
Blue-coated, flying before, from tree to tree,
Courageous sing a delicate overture,
To lead the tardy concert of the year.
Onward, and nearer draws the sun of May,
And wide around the marriage of the plants
Is sweetly solemnized; then flows amain
The surge of summer's beauty; dell and crag,
Hollow and lake, hill-side, and pine arcade,
Are touched with genius. Yon...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France

...ng years. 

III 

et sought they neither recompense nor praise, 
Nor to be mentioned in another breath 
Than their blue coated comrades whose great days 
It was their pride to share -- ay, share even to the death! 
Nay, rather, France, to you they rendered thanks 
(Seeing they came for honor, not for gain), 
Who, opening to them your glorious ranks, 
Gave them that grand occasion to excel, 
That chance to live the life most free from stain 
And that rare privilege of dying we...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

Oh, Why Not Be Happy?{1}

...usic enticing fond lovers to meet; 
 The violets are blooming and nestling their heads 
 In richest profusion on moss-coated beds. 
 Then why not be happy 
 This bright summer day, 
 When Nature is fairest 
 And all is so gay? 
 
 LEOPOLD WRAY. 
 
 {Footnote 1: Music composed by Elizabeth Philip.} 


 




...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America

...ng, lying on the dirt floor with pigs and chickens

around you. The walls, the floor and even the roof of the

hut were coated with your sperm and her come.

 "You slept on the floor at night and used your sperm for

a pillow and her come for a blanket.

 "The people in the town were so afraid of you that they

could do nothing.

 "After a while she started going around town without any

clothes on, and the people of the town said that it was not a

good thing, and when you s...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Pickthorn Manor

...urs all her dreams.

XXI
Eunice forgets to eat, watching their faces Flickering 
in the wind-blown candle's shine.
Blue-coated lackeys tiptoe to their places, And set out plates 
of fruit and jugs of wine.
The table glitters black like Winter ice. The Dartle's rushing, 
and the gentle clash
Of blossomed branches, drifts into her ears. And 
through the casement sash
She sees each cherry stem a pointed slice
Of splintered moonlight, topped with all the spice
And shimmer of the ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Burden Of Itys

...oar will chase
Adown the chestnut-copses all a-bloom,
And ivory-limbed, grey-eyed, with look of pride,
After yon velvet-coated deer the virgin maid will ride.

Sing on! and I the dying boy will see
Stain with his purple blood the waxen bell
That overweighs the jacinth, and to me
The wretched Cyprian her woe will tell,
And I will kiss her mouth and streaming eyes,
And lead her to the myrtle-hidden grove where Adon lies!

Cry out aloud on Itys! memory
That foster-brother of rem...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

The Cow-Juice Cure

...eal flooid is the lubrication you require;
Yer nervus frame-up's like a bunch of snarled piano wire.
You want to get it coated up with addypose tishoo,
So's it will work elastic-like, an' milk's the dope for you."

Well, Billy was complyable, an' in a month it's strange,
That cow-juice seemed to oppyrate a most amazin' change.
"Call up the water-wagon, Dan, an' book my seat," sez he.
"'Tis mighty *****," sez Deep-hole Dan, "'twas just the same with
me."
They shanghaied little...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Flight Of The Duchess

...At next year's end, in a velvet suit,
With a gilt glove on his hand, his foot
In a silken shoe for a leather boot,
Petticoated like a herald,
In a chamher next to an ante-room,
Where he breathed the breath of page and groom,
What he called stink, and they, perfume:
---They should have set him on red Berold
Mad with pride, like fire to manage!
They should have got his cheek fresh tannage
Such a day as to-day in the merry sunshine!
Had they stuck on his fist a rough-foot merlin...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Poet in the Nursery

...to bed with me and gloated, 
Learning the lines that seemed to sound most grand; 
So soon the pretty emerald green was coated 
With jam and greasy marks from my hot hand, 
While round the nursery for long months there floated 
Wonderful words no one could understand....Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

The Return

...or the wind tracking slowly through
the stalks or riding above the barren ground. Later
he'd come home, his dress shoes coated with dust or mud,
his long black overcoat stained or tattered
at the hem, sit wordless in his favorite chair,
his necktie loosened, and stare at nothing. At first
my brothers and I tried conversation, questions
only he could answer: Why had he gone to war?
Where did he learn Arabic? Where was his father?
I remember none of this. I read it all later,
y...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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