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Famous Confiding Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Manrique, Jorge
...,—
Make ready now to take the vaunted
High guerdon you have merited
For this great journey!

“Upon this holy trust confiding,
And in the faith entire and pure
You e'er commended,
Away,—unto your new abiding,
Take up the Life that shall endure
When this is ended!”


Respondeth the Grand-Master

“Waste we not here the final hours
This puny life can now afford
My mortal being;
But let my will in all its powers
Conformable approach the Lord
And His decreeing.
...Read more of this...



by Brontë, Emily
...Death! that struck when I was most confiding
In my certain faith of joy to be -
Strike again, Time's withered branch dividing
From the fresh root of Eternity! 

Leaves, upon Time's branch, were growing brightly,
Full of sap, and full of silver dew;
Birds beneath its shelter gathered nightly;
Daily round its flowers the wild bees flew. 

Sorrow passed, and plucked the golden blossom;
Guilt...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...annot see my soul but know 'tis there
Nor ever saw his house nor furniture,
Who has invited me with him to dwell;
But a confiding guest consult as well,
What raiment honor him the most,
That I be adequately dressed,
For he insures to none
Lest men specified adorn
Procuring him perpetual drest
By dating it a sudden feast....Read more of this...

by Cowper, William
...ould wither,
Nor flocks nor herds be there:
Yet God the same abiding,
His praise shall tune my voice;
For, while in Him confiding,
I cannot but rejoice....Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...ed, 
Methinks the accuser's rest is long indulged. 

III. 

The hour is past, and Lara too is there, 
With self-confiding, coldly patient air; 
Why comes not Ezzelin? The hour is past, 
And murmurs rise, and Otho's brow's o'ercast, 
"I know my friend! his faith I cannot fear, 
If yet he be on earth, expect him here; 
The roof that held him in the valley stands 
Between my own and noble Lara's lands; 
My halls from such a guest had honour gain'd, 
Nor had Sir Ezzelin h...Read more of this...



by Dickinson, Emily
...One of the ones that Midas touched
Who failed to touch us all
Was that confiding Prodigal
The reeling Oriole --

So drunk he disavows it
With badinage divine --
So dazzling we mistake him
For an alighting Mine --

A Pleader -- a Dissembler --
An Epicure -- a Thief --
Betimes an Oratorio --
An Ecstasy in chief --

The Jesuit of Orchards
He cheats as he enchants
Of an entire Attar
For his decamping wants --

The splendor of a Bur...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...d grey, 
And worn for want of sleep, 
Received the news in camp one day 
Behind the travelling sheep 

That Edward Rex, confiding in 
His known integrity, 
By hand and seal on parchment skin 
Had made hiim a J.P. 

He read the news with eager face 
But found no word of pay. 
"I'd like to see my sister's place 
And kids on Christmas Day. 

"I'd like to see green grass again, 
And watch clear water run, 
Away from this unholy plain, 
And flies, and dust, and sun...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...She laid her docile Crescent down
And this confiding Stone
Still states to Dates that have forgot
The News that she is gone --

So constant to its stolid trust,
The Shaft that never knew --
It shames the Constancy that fled
Before its emblem flew --...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...cence lain
Is more distinct than ours --
And ours surrendered for its sake
As Capsules are for Flower's --
Or is it the confiding sheen
Dissenting to enamor us
Of Detriment divine?...Read more of this...

by Schiller, Friedrich von
...bore,
Nor might his soul its faith give o'er;
Nor could the tyrant's scorn deriding,
Steal from that faith one thought confiding!"

"Too late! what horror hast thou spoken!
Vain life, since it cannot requite him!
But death with me can yet unite him;
No boast the tyrant's scorn shall make--
How friend to friend can faith forsake.
But from the double death shall know,
That truth and love yet live below!"

The sun sinks down--the gate's in view,
The cross looms dismal on th...Read more of this...

by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...

Thus doth the kernel, while dry, cover that motionless 
life.
Upward then strives it to swell, in gentle moisture confiding,

And, from the night where it dwelt, straightway 
ascendeth to light.
Yet still simple remaineth its figure, when first it appeareth;

And 'tis a token like this, points out the child 
'mid the plants.
Soon a shoot, succeeding it, riseth on high, and reneweth,

Piling-up node upon node, ever the primitive form;
Yet not ever alike: for the ...Read more of this...

by Newbolt, Sir Henry
...e kept her in a basket by the fire, 
Fed her, and thought she well might live – till suddenly
I the very moment of most confiding hope
She arised herself all tense, qivered and drooped and died.
Tears sprang into my eyes- why not? The heart of man
Soon sets itself to love a living companion, 
The more so if by chance it asks some care of him.
And this one had the kind of loveliness that goes
Far deeper than the optic nerve- full fathom five
To the soul’socean cave, wh...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...ming things myself. 

On Sundays he controlled a "school", 
And played "two-up" the livelong day; 
And many a young confiding fool 
He shore of his financial wool; 
And when he lost he would not pay. 

He organised a shearers' race, 
And "touched" me to provide the prize. 
His pack-horse showed surprising pace 
And won hands down -- he was The Ace, 
A well-known racehorse in disguise. 

Next day the bruiser of the shed 
Displayed an opal-tinted eye, 
With larg...Read more of this...

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