Famous Communing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Canzone X

...e the summer sun the snow. At first I fondly thoughtCommuning with mine ardent flame to winSome brief repose, some time of truce within:This was the hope which broughtMe courage what I suffer'd to explain,Now, now it leaves me martyr to my pain:But still, continuing mine amorous song,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


Canzone XXI

...n snow,Feels in its certain core death's coming blow;For thus, in weak self-communing, has roll'dOf my vain life the better portion by:Worse burden surely ne'erTried mortal man than that which now I bear;Though death be seated nigh,For future life still seeking councils new,I know and love the good, yet...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

In Youth I have Known One

...tains - the intense 
Reply of Hers to Our intelligence! 

I. 

In youth I have known one with whom the Earth 
In secret communing held - as he with it, 
In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth: 
Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit 
From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth 
A passionate light - such for his spirit was fit - 
And yet that spirit knew - not in the hour 
Of its own fervour - what had o'er it power. 

II. 

Perhaps it may be that my mind is ...Read more of this...
by Poe, Edgar Allan

New York at Night

...forgot?
Nature forsakes this man-begot
And festering wilderness, and now
The long still hours are here, no jot
Of dear communing do I know;
Instead the glaring, man-filled city groans below!...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Sonnet LVIII

...eems that my fond kenOf peace sees promise in that aspect kind.When further communing I hold with herBenignantly she smiles, as if she heardAnd well could answer to mine every word:But far o'er mine thy pride and pleasure were,Bright, warm and young, Pygmalion, to have press'dThine image long and oft, while mine not once has...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


Sonnet XXVIII

..., where shall I find so wild a wood,A way so rough that there Love cannot goCommuning with me the long day and night? Macgregor....Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Palace of Art

...r feastful mirth,
Joying to feel herself alive,
Lord over Nature, Lord of the visible earth,
Lord of the senses five;


Communing with herself: "All these are mine,
And let the world have peace or wars,
'T is one to me." She--when young night divine
Crown'd dying day with stars,


Making sweet close of his delicious toils--
Lit light in wreaths and anadems,
And pure quintessences of precious oils
In hollow'd moons of gems,


To mimic heaven; and clapt her hands and cried,
"I ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Princess (part 1)

...ed thousand men, 
And bring her in a whirlwind: then he chewed 
The thrice-turned cud of wrath, and cooked his spleen, 
Communing with his captains of the war. 

At last I spoke. 'My father, let me go. 
It cannot be but some gross error lies 
In this report, this answer of a king, 
Whom all men rate as kind and hospitable: 
Or, maybe, I myself, my bride once seen, 
Whate'er my grief to find her less than fame, 
May rue the bargain made.' And Florian said: 
'I have a sister at...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Way

...ng and jostling. Left behind were 
the trees
and the flowers,
The half-realized beauty of quiet, the sacred unconscious communing.
And now he is come to a river, a line of gray, sullen water,
Not blue and splashing, but dark, rolling somberly on to the ocean.
But on the far side is a city whose windows flame gold in the sunset.
It lies fair and shining before him, a gem set betwixt sky and water,
And spanning the river a bridge, frail promise to longing desire,
Flung by man i...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

To M.L.S

...evoted,
And think that these weak lines are written by him-
By him who, as he pens them, thrills to think
His spirit is communing with an angel's....Read more of this...
by Poe, Edgar Allan

When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd

...blooming, returning with spring,
I cease from my song for thee; 
From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee, 
O comrade lustrous, with silver face in the night. 

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Yet each I keep, and all, retrievements out of the night; 
The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird,
And the tallying chant, the echo arous’d in my soul, 
With the lustrous and drooping star, with the countenance full of woe, 
With the lilac tall, and its blossom...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Years of the Modern

...geography, all lands; 
—What whispers are these, O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?
Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe? 
Is humanity forming, en-masse?—for lo! tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim; 
The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war; 
No one knows what will happen next—such portents fill the days and nights; 
Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, i...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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