Famous Cowers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Clasp Of Hands

...SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers
That bask in heavenly heat
When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers,
Soft, small, and sweet.

A babe's hands open as to greet
The tender touch of ours
And mock with motion faint and fleet

The minutes of the new strange hours
That earth, not heaven, must mete;
Buds fragrant still from heaven's own bowers,
Soft, small, and sweet.

A velvet vice with springs of steel
That fasten in a trice
And clench the fingers fast th...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles


a reader's de profundis

...sk the path they strode
wrapped their ascetic bloodstreams in the holy pages
before which (even today) the congregation cowers

da vinci was an artist scientist (probably a necromancer)
had his own black sun – dabbled in the anti-matter
that official truth hates (creates) – that nurtures riddles 
through passageways that breed the ill-reputed answer
(soiled honour’s defence against sly caesar’s fiddles)
hissing its way lightwards through conspiracy chatter

christ had a woman...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

Evening

...277" target="_blank">[Pg 277]The tide is rising high.
Beneath some friendly blade of grass
The lazy beetle cowers;
The coffers of the air are filled
With offerings from the flowers.
And slowly buzzing o'er my head
A swallow wings her flight;
I hear the weary plowman sing
As falls the restful night.
...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages

...the bell of the last annunciation.

Where is the end of them, the fishermen sailing
Into the wind's tail, where the fog cowers?
We cannot think of a time that is oceanless
Or of an ocean not littered with wastage
Or of a future that is not liable
Like the past, to have no destination.

We have to think of them as forever bailing,
Setting and hauling, while the North East lowers
Over shallow banks unchanging and erosionless
Or drawing their money, drying sails at dockage;
Not ...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Four Songs Of Four Seasons

...t of the will of the wind on the wall,
Fluttering the wall-flowers, sighing and playing,
Shrinking again as a bird that cowers,
Thinking of hours when the flowers have to fall?

Out of the throats of the loud birds showering,
Out of the folds where the flag-lilies leap,
Out of the mouths of the roses stirred,
Out of the herbs on the walls reflowering,
Out of the heights where the sheer snows sleep,
Out of the deep and the steep, one word.

One from the lips of the lily-flames...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles


Someones Mother

...n gown Communion bright,
Singingly she trod
Up and up the stair of light,
And thee was waiting - God.

Someone's Mother cowers down
By the old church wall;
Soft above the sleeping town
Snow begins to fall;
Now her rags are lily fair,
but unproud is she:
Someone's Mother is not there . . .
Lo! she climbs the starry stair
Only angels see....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Cross-Roads

...nches
are knocking -- knocking. The sun in the sky is a flat, 
red plate,
the branches creak and grate. She screams and cowers, 
for the green foliage
is a lowering wave surging to smother her. But she sees 
nothing.
The stake holds firm. The body writhes, the body squirms.
The blue spots widen, the flesh tears, but the stake wears well
in the deep, black ground. It holds the body in the still, 
black ground.

Two years! The body has been in the ground two years. It 
is worn ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Ship of Death

...outside world. 

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying 
and our strength leaves us, 
and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, 
cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life. 

VII 

We are dying, we are dying, so all we can do 
is now to be willing to die, and to build the ship 
of death to carry the soul on the longest journey. 

A little ship, with oars and food 
and little dishes, and all accoutrements 
fitting and ready for ...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

The Supplanter: A Tale

...thee here!" he says, 
 "For winning me from one 
Who ever in her living days 
 Was pure as cloistered nun!" 

XI 

She cowers, and he takes his track 
 Afar for many a mile, 
For evermore to be apart 
 From her who could beguile 
His senses by her burning heart, 
 And win his love awhile. 

XII 

A year: and he is travelling back 
 To her who wastes in clay; 
From day-dawn until eve he fares 
 Along the wintry way, 
From day-dawn until eve repairs 
 Unto her mound to pray. 
...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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