Famous Cooled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Cherry-Time

...ll be fairies quite. 

When I sound the fairy call, 
Gather here in silent meeting, 
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, 
Cooled with dew and cherries eating. 
 Merry, merry, 
 Take a cherry; 
 Mine are sounder, 
 Mine are rounder, 
 Mine are sweeter. 
 For the eater 
 When the dews fall.
And you’ll be fairies all....Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert


Cliche Came Out of its Cage

...for a man to die 
Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing. 
Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune 
Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions; 
Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears ... 
You said it. Did you mean it? Oh inordinate liar, stop.

2

Or did you mean another kind of heathenry? 
Think, then, that under heaven-roof the little disc of the earth, 
Fortified Midgard, lies encircled by the ravening Worm. 
Over its icy...Read more of this...
by Lewis, C S

daft icarus

...et till i melted
just like that daft icarus before me
and i thought
  well why the sod not
so i jumped in a pond till i cooled
and the blood from a scratch on my hand
turned the green water red but not a
thick peasant came to be in on the wonder
and i had to go home soaking wet
to a tongue that had blisters and a belt
round the head from my dad - but i lived

which is more than daft icarus did...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

Elegy: Walking the Line

...r Garner’s help
The time he needed cash for his son’s bail
And offered all his place. A noble spring
Under the oak root cooled his milk and butter.
He called me “honey,” working with us there
(My father bought three acres as a gift),
His wife pale, hair a country orange, voice
Uncanny, like a ghost’s, through the open door
Behind her, chickens scratching on the floor.
Barred Rocks, our chickens; one, a rooster, splendid
Sliver and grey, red comb and long sharp spurs,
Once cha...Read more of this...
by Bowers, Edgar

First Anniversary

...d the sun was fall'n out of the sphere: 
Justice obstructed lay, and reason fooled; 
Courage disheartened, and religion cooled. 
A dismal silence through the palace went, 
And then loud shrieks the vaulted marbles rent, 
Such as the dying chorus sings by turns, 
And to deaf seas, and ruthless tempests mourns, 
When now they sink, and now the plundering streams 
Break up each deck, and rip the oaken seams. 

But thee triumphant hence the fiery car, 
And fiery steeds had borne ...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


For A Lady Who Must Write Verse

...ht curl and caper,
Let it lick the words away.

Never print, poor child, a lay on
Love and tears and anguishing,
Lest a cooled, benignant Phaon
Murmur, "Silly little thing!"...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy

Gareth And Lynette

...past without the gate. 

So Gareth past with joy; but as the cur 
Pluckt from the cur he fights with, ere his cause 
Be cooled by fighting, follows, being named, 
His owner, but remembers all, and growls 
Remembering, so Sir Kay beside the door 
Muttered in scorn of Gareth whom he used 
To harry and hustle. 

'Bound upon a quest 
With horse and arms--the King hath past his time-- 
My scullion knave! Thralls to your work again, 
For an your fire be low ye kindle mine! 
Will th...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Gerontion

...h a thousand small deliberations
Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do,
Suspend its operations, will the weevil
Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn,
White feathers in the snow...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Goblin Market

...t night long Lizzie watched by her,
Counted her pulse's flagging stir,
Felt for her breath,
Held water to her lips, and cooled her face
With tears and fanning leaves:
But when the first birds chirped about their eaves,
And early reapers plodded to the place
Of golden sheaves,
And dew-wet grass
Bowed in the morning winds so brisk to pass,
And new buds with new day
Opened of cup-like lilies on the stream,
Laura awoke as from a dream,
Laughed in the innocent old way,
Hugged Lizz...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina

Hamatreya

...I theirs, 
If they cannot hold me, 
But I hold them?'

When I heard the Earth-song, 
I was no longer brave; 
My avarice cooled 
Like lust in the chill of the grave....Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How Lucy Backslid

...fu' she could n't he'p but know
Dat wid jes' de present dancahs she was ownah of de flo';
But I t'ink she 'd kin' o' cooled down ef she happened on de sly
Fu' to noticed dat 'ere lightnin' dat I seed in Lucy's eye.
An' she would n't been so 'stonished w'en de people gin a shout,
An' Lucy th'owed huh mantle back an' come a-glidin' out.
Some ahms was dah to tek huh an' she fluttahed down de flo'
Lak a feddah f'om a bedtick w'en de win' commence to blow.
Soon ez Tildy s...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Isaac and Archibald

...ad that day from Tilbury Town.— 
“Magnificent,” said Isaac; and he told 
About the beautiful west wind there was 
Which cooled and clarified the atmosphere. 
“You must have made it with your legs, I guess,”
Said Archibald; and Isaac humored him 
With one of those infrequent smiles of his 
Which he kept in reserve, apparently, 
For Archibald alone. “But why,” said he, 
“Should Providence have cider in the world
If not for such an afternoon as this?” 
And Archibald, with a soft...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Last Instructions to a Painter

...hemselves to seek, 
Nor other courtship knew but to his cheek. 
Oft, as he in chill Esk or Seine by night 
Hardened and cooled his limbs, so soft, so white, 
Among the reeds, to be espied by him, 
The nymphs would rustle; he would forward swim. 
They sighed and said, `Fond boy, why so untame 
That fliest love's fires, reserved for other flame?' 
Fixed on his ship, he faced that horrid day 
And wondered much at those that ran away. 
Nor other fear himself could comprehend 
The...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Lovers Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden

...t your face sweet with its silence, last night when the moon's
dream overflowed the world of slumber.
To-day in the dew-cooled calm of the dawn you are walking to
God's temple, bathed and robed in white, with a basketful of
flowers in your hand. I stand aside in the shade under the tree,
with my head bent, in the calm of the dawn by the lonely road to
the temple....Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath

Opening the Geode

...ed, boiled over, 
mounded up in smoking hills
no giant mixing spoon 
smoothed out the lumps and bubbles 
as the pottage cooled to rock. 

No kitchen timer ticked 
precisely the eons required 
to fill the gritty pits 
slowly, drop by drop 
with layers of glassy salts, 
agate, opal, quartz; 

no listening ear inclined 
over the silicon mold 
to hear the chink of crystals 
rising geometrically 
facet upon facet 
in the airless dark. 

No hand lifted the stony lid 
to add light, ...Read more of this...
by Alger, Julie Hill

Paradise Lost: Book 11

...
And fear of God; from whom their piety feigned 
In sharp contest of battle found no aid 
Against invaders; therefore, cooled in zeal, 
Thenceforth shall practice how to live secure, 
Worldly or dissolute, on what their lords 
Shall leave them to enjoy; for the earth shall bear 
More than enough, that temperance may be tried: 
So all shall turn degenerate, all depraved; 
Justice and temperance, truth and faith, forgot; 
One man except, the only son of light 
In a dark age, a...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Rite of Spring

...g of wheat straw
into ropes, lapping them tight
Round stem and snout, then a light

That sent the pump up in a flame
It cooled, we lifted her latch,
Her entrance was wet, and she came....Read more of this...
by Heaney, Seamus

Telling the Bees

...ide farm. 

I mind me how with a lover's care 
From my Sunday coat 
I brushed off the burrs, and smoothed my hair, 
And cooled at the brookside my brow and throat. 

Since we parted, a month had passed, -- 
To love, a year; 
Down through the beeches I looked at last 
On the little red gate and the well-sweep near. 

I can see it all now, -- the slantwise rain 
Of light through the leaves, 
The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, 
The bloom of her roses under the eaves. 

Just...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf

The Knife

...sea and a fine day,
from inside these caves I look and dream.

Your hair explicable as a waterfall
in some black liquid cooled by legend
fell across my thought in a moment
became a garment I am naked without
lines drawn across through morning and evening.

And in your body each minute I died
moving your thigh could disinter me
from a grave in a distant city:
your breasts deserted by cloth, clothed in twilight
filled me with tears, sweet cups of flesh.

Yes, to touch two finge...Read more of this...
by Douglas, Keith

To Marguerite

...watery plain --
Oh, might our marges meet again!

Who ordered, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cooled?
Who renders vain their deep desire? --
A god, a god their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea....Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

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