Famous Coldest Poems by Famous Poets

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92. Suppressed Stanzas of 'The Vision'

...Whitefoord’s rosy charms,
Still threats the tiny, feather’d arms,
 The barbed dart,
While lovely Wilhelmina warms
 The coldest heart. 7


After 21st stanza of the text (at “That, to adore”):—Where Lugar leaves his moorland plaid, 8
Where lately Want was idly laid,
I markèd busy, bustling Trade,
 In fervid flame,
Beneath a Patroness’ aid,
 Of noble name.


Wild, countless hills I could survey,
And countless flocks as wild as they;
But other scenes did charms display,
 That be...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Beowulf (Modern English)

...9-43)

“Then we were in the sea together for five nights,
until the current drove us apart. The welling waters,
the coldest of weather, the glooming night,
and the north wind battle-grim turned against us.
The waves were cruel, and the spirits of sea-monsters
were stirred up. There my body-sark gave me
some help against their hatred, hardened and hand-linked,
the woven war-dress laying on my breast,
fretted with gold. A speckled harmer, hostile,
had me fast, tore m...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Custer

...t are the sternest when enraged.
All felt the swift contagion of his ire, 
For he was one who could arouse and fire
The coldest heart, so ardent was his own.
His fearless eye, his calm intrepid tone, 
Bespoke the leader, strong with conscious power, 
Whom following friends will bless, while foes will curse and cower.



XX.
Again they charge! and now among the killed
Lies Hamilton, his wish so soon fulfilled, 
Brave Elliott pursues across the field
The flying foe, his own you...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Deer Dancer

...Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter except the
hardcore.It was the coldest night of the year, every place shut down, but
not us.Of course we noticed when she came in.We were Indian ruins.She
was the end of beauty.No one knew her, the stranger whose tribe we
recognized, her family related to deer, if that's who she was, a people
accustomed to hearing songs in pine trees, and making them hearts.

The woman inside the woman wh...Read more of this...
by Harjo, Joy

Farewell To The Muse

...Infancy's days,
Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part;
Then rise on the gale this the last of my lays,
The coldest effusion which springs from my heart.

This bosom, responsive to rapture no more,
Shall hush thy wild notes, nor implore thee to sing;
The feelings of childhood, which taught thee to soar,
Are wafted far distant on Apathy's wing.

Though simple the themes of my rude flowing Lyre,
Yet even these themes are departed for ever;
No more beam the eyes whic...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)


Great are the Myths

...or said, forget not that Silence is also
 expressive, 
That anguish as hot as the hottest, and contempt as cold as the coldest, may be without
 words. 

2
Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is; 
Do you imagine it has stopt at this? the increase abandon’d? 
Understand then that it goes as far onward from this, as this is from the times when it
 lay in
 covering waters and gases, before man had appear’d.

Great is the quality of Truth in man; 
The quality of tru...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Hiawathas Friends

...re roaming 
Idly in the fields and forests; 
In the Winter you are cowering 
O'er the firebrands in the wigwam! 
In the coldest days of Winter 
I must break the ice for fishing; 
With my nets you never help me! 
At the door my nets are hanging, 
Dripping, freezing with the water; 
Go and wring them, Yenadizze! 
Go and dry them in the sunshine!"
Slowly, from the ashes, Kwasind 
Rose, but made no angry answer; 
From the lodge went forth in silence, 
Took the nets, that hung tog...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

June Dreams In January

...ent Italy
That he had dreamed to blossom in his soul.
"I'll date this dream," he said; "so: `Given, these,
On this, the coldest night in all the year,
From this, the meanest garret in the world,
In this, the greatest city in the land,
To you, the richest folk this side of death,
By one, the hungriest poet under heaven,
-- Writ while his candle sputtered in the gust,
And while his last, last ember died of cold,
And while the mortal ice i' the air made free
Of all his bones and...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

Mazeppa

...ances
At Warsaw's youth, some songs, and dances, 
Awaited but the usual chances,
Those happy accidents which render
The coldest dames so very tender,
To deck her Count with titles given,
'Tis said, as passports into heaven;
But, strange to say, they rarely boast
Of these, who have deserved them most.

V

'I was a goodly stripling then;
At seventy years I so may say, 
That there were few, or boys or men,
Who, in my dawning time of day,
Of vassal or of knight's degree, 
Could v...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Mount Kearsarge Shines

...s but remains still. Tonight
we carry armloads of logs

from woodshed to Glenwood and build up the fire 
that keeps the coldest night outside our windows.
Sit by the woodstove, Camilla, 
while I bring glasses of white,

and we'll talk, passing the time, about weather 
without pretending that we can alter it:
Storms stop when they stop, no sooner,
leaving the birches glossy

with ice and bent glittering to rimy ground.
We'll avoid the programmed weatherman grinning 
from the b...Read more of this...
by Hall, Donald

Ode to the Muse

...entle as the turtle's breast; 
Where'er thy feath'ry steps shall lead,
To side-long hill, or flow'ry mead; 
To sorrow's coldest, darkest cell,
Or where, by Cynthia's glimm'ring ray, 
The dapper fairies frisk and play
About some cowslip's golden bell;
And, in their wanton frolic mirth,
Pluck the young daisies from the earth,
To canopy their tiny heads, 
And decorate their verdant beds; 
While to the grass-hopper's shrill tune,
They quaff libations to the moon, 
From acorn gobl...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

On a Lady Throwing Snow-Balls at Her Lover

...atin of Petronious Ascanius.]

When, wanton fair, the snowy orb you throw, 
I feel a fire before unknown in snow. 
E'en coldest snow I find has pow'r to warm 
My breast, when flung by Julia's lovely arm. 
T'elude love's pow'rful arts I strive in vain, 
If ice and snow can latent fires contain. 
These frolics leave: the force of beauty prove, 
With equal passion cool my ardent love....Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher

Phoebus with Admetus

...
 That had thee here obscure. 

You with shelly horns, rams! and, promontory goats, 
 You whose browsing beards dip in coldest dew! 
Bulls, that walk the pastures in kingly-flashing coats! 
 Laurel, ivy, vine, wreathed for feasts not few! 
You that build the shade-roof, and you that court the rays, 
 You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent: 
He has been our fellow, the morning of our days; 
 Us he chose for housemates, and this way went. 
 God! of whom music 
 And so...Read more of this...
by Meredith, George

The Crisis

...ing fight with Fate.[Pg 112]
Friends gave his proffered hand their coldest clasp,
Or took it not at all; and Poverty,
That bruised his body with relentless grasp,
Grinned, taunting, when he struggled to be free.
But though with helpless hands he beat the air,
His need extreme yet found no voice in prayer.
Then he prevailed; and forthwith snobbish Fate,
Like some whipped cur, came fawning at his feet;
Those who had s...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

The Lost Path

...d?

Or will my clamorous knocking shake the trees 
With lonely thunder through the stillnesses, 
And then lie down--the coldest fear of all-- 
To nothing, and deliberate silence fall 
On the house deep in the silence, and no one come 
To door or window, staring blind and dumb?...Read more of this...
by Wylie, Elinor

The Old Huntsman

...ns, and I rode 
The lumbering brute that’s beat in half a mile, 
And blunders into every blind old ditch. 
Hell was the coldest scenting land I’ve known,
And both my whips were always lost, and hounds 
Would never get their heads down; and a man 
On a great yawing chestnut trying to cast ’em 
While I was in a corner pounded by 
The ugliest hog-backed stile you’ve clapped your eyes on.
There was an iron-spiked fence round all the coverts, 
And civil-spoken keepers I couldn’t t...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

The Seafarer

...ust bide above brine.
Neareth nightshade, snoweth from north,
Frost froze the land, hail fell on earth then
Corn of the coldest. Nathless there knocketh now
The heart's thought that I on high streams
The salt-wavy tumult traverse alone.
Moaneth alway my mind's lust
That I fare forth, that I afar hence
Seek out a foreign fastness.
For this there's no mood-lofty man over earth's midst,
Not though he be given his good, but will have in his youth greed;
Nor his deed to the daring...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra

To Sir Robert Wroth

...river, or the bush,    Or shooting at the greedy thrush, Thou dost with some delight the day out-wear,    Although the coldest of the year ! The whilst the several seasons thou hast seen    Of flowery fields, of cop'ces green, The mowed meadows, with the fleeced sheep,   And furrows laden with their weight ; The apple-harvest, that doth longer last ;    The hogs return'd home fat from mast ; The trees cut out in log, and those boughs made    A fire now, that lent a shade ! T...Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben

Victory

...Do as you will, you have had your life
 many have not

signing it in his olden script:

 Meister aus Deutschland

•

In coldest Europe end of that war
frozen domes iron railings frozen stoves lit in the
 streets
memory banks of cold

the Nike of Samothrace
on a staircase wings in blazing
backdraft said to me
: : to everyone she met
 Displaced, amputated never discount me

Victory
 indented in disaster striding
 at the head of stairs

 for Tory Dent...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne

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