Famous Coinage Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Coinage poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous coinage poems. These examples illustrate what a famous coinage poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ome and a useful sight.
Unfailing and exuberant all the time,
Having no gold he paid with golden rhyme,
Of older coinage than his old defeat,
A debt that like himself was obsolete
In Art’s long hazard, where no man may choose
Whether he play to win or toil to lose....Read more of this...
by
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...e.
So the last sight that Enid had of home
Was all the marble threshold flashing, strown
With gold and scattered coinage, and the squire
Chafing his shoulder: then he cried again,
'To the wilds!' and Enid leading down the tracks
Through which he bad her lead him on, they past
The marches, and by bandit-haunted holds,
Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern,
And wildernesses, perilous paths, they rode:
Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon:
A...Read more of this...
by
Keats, John
...ee what may be gain'd
By ear industrious, and attention meet:
Misers of sound and syllable, no less
Than Midas of his coinage, let us be
Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown;
So, if we may not let the Muse be free,
She will be bound with garlands of her own....Read more of this...
by
Meredith, George
...s gold,
And the great price we pay for it full worth:
We have it only when we are half earth.
Little avails that coinage to the old!...Read more of this...
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