Famous Coined Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Arrival

...w let me lie down, under
A wide-branched indifference,
Shovel-faces like pennies
Down the back of the mind,
Find voices coined to
An argot of motor-horns,
And let the cluttered-up houses
Keep their thick lives to themselves.

For this ignorance of me
Seems a kind of innocence.
Fast enough I shall wound it:
Let me breathe till then
Its milk-aired Eden,
Till my own life impound it-
Slow-falling; grey-veil-hung; a theft,
A style of dying only....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip


Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals

...s pet;
Natural history proves it true-
Women and elephants never forget.

L'ENVOI

Prince, a precept I'd leave for you,
Coined in Eden, existing yet:
Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo-
Women and elephants never forget....Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy

Beowulf (Modern English)

...ghter. Now his hardened heir
comes here, seeking a loyal ally!
The sea-venturers used to say then,
those who carried coined gifts to the Geats
thither as thanks, that he had the strength
of thirty men in his hand-grip and fame in war as well.
Holy God has sent him to us as a support,
to the West-Danes, as I have hope,
against the terror of Grendel. I must offer treasures
to that good chieftain for his mindful courage.
Be of haste, bid their allied band to enter and ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Bishop Blougrams Apology

...
Its dozen noisy years, without a chance 
That wedding an archduchess, wearing lace, 
And getting called by divers new-coined names, 
Will drive off ugly thoughts and let me dine, 
Sleep, read and chat in quiet as I like! 
Therefore I will not. 

Take another case; 
Fit up the cabin yet another way. 
What say you to the poets? shall we write 
Hamlet, Othello--make the world our own, 


Without a risk to run of either sort? 
I can't--to put the strongest reason first. 
"But t...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Ii

...weth,
And mine was like the searching bee—
I found her sweetness all for me.
God plied him in the mint of time,
And coined for us a golden day,
And rolled it ringing down life's way
With love's sweet music in its chime.
And God unclasped the Book of Ages,
And laid it open to our sight;
Upon the dimness of its pages,
So long consigned to rayless night,
He shed the glory of his light.
We read them well, we read them long,
And ever thrilling did we see
That love ru...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul


Solar

...lified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.

Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

The Book of Thel

...ready drawn,
4.14 Where a thousand fighting men in ambush lie?
4.15 Or an Eye of gifts and graces show'ring fruits and coined gold?
4.16 Why a Tongue impress'd with honey from every wind?
4.17 Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw creations in?
4.18 Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror, trembling, and affright?
4.19 Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
4.20 Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?" 

4.21 The Virgin started from her seat, and with a...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Mountain Squatter

...orks her way around 
And gathers up the sheep; 

And, working wide and shy, 
She holds them rounded up. 
The cash ain't coined to buy 
That little collie pup. 

And so I draw a screw 
For self and dog and keep 
To boundary-ride for you, 
O Riverina Sheep! 

And, when the autumn rain 
Has made the herbage grow, 
You travel off again, 
And glad -- no doubt -- to go. 

But some are left behind 
Around the mountain's spread, 
For those we cannot find 
We put them down as dead. 

...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

To A World-Reformer

...
Trust the proverb! I ne'er have been deceived by it yet.
Thou canst not sufficiently prize humanity's value;
Let it be coined in deed as it exists in thy breast.
E'en to the man whom thou chancest to meet in life's narrow pathway,
If he should ask it of thee, hold forth a succoring hand.
But for rain and for dew, for the general welfare of mortals,
Leave thou Heaven to care, friend, as before, so e'en now....Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

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