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Famous Creeper Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hardy, Thomas
...ntlemen. 

The bower we shrined to Tennyson, 
Gentlemen, 
Is roof-wrecked; damps there drip upon 
Sagged seats, the creeper-nails are rust, 
The spider is sole denizen; 
Even she who voiced those rhymes is dust, 
Gentlemen! 

We who met sunrise sanguine-souled, 
Gentlemen, 
Are wearing weary. We are old; 
These younger press; we feel our rout 
Is imminent to A?des' den,-- 
That evening shades are stretching out, 
Gentlemen! 

And yet, though ours be failing frames, 
G...Read more of this...



by Fu, Du
...stry incense stove apart hidden pillow Mountain tower white battlements hide sad reed whistle Ask look stone on creeper moon Already reflect islet before rushes reeds flowers  Over Kuizhou's lonely wall, the setting sun slants, Every day I follow the Plough to look to the capital city. I hear an ape; the third call really makes tears fall, Undertaking a mission, in vain I follow the eighth month raft. The muralle...Read more of this...

by Lawrence, D. H.
...What large, dark hands are those at the window
Lifted, grasping the golden light
Which weaves its way through the creeper leaves
          To my heart's delight?

Ah, only the leaves! But in the west,
In the west I see a redness come
Over the evening's burning breast--
          --'Tis the wound of love goes home!

  The woodbine creeps abroad
  Calling low to her lover:
    The sun-lit flirt who all the day
    Has poised above her lips in play
    And stol...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...ng its Ethiop berries; and woodbine,
Of velvet leaves and bugle-blooms divine;
Convolvulus in streaked vases flush;
The creeper, mellowing for an autumn blush;
And virgin's bower, trailing airily;
With others of the sisterhood. Hard by,
Stood serene Cupids watching silently.
One, kneeling to a lyre, touch'd the strings,
Muffling to death the pathos with his wings;
And, ever and anon, uprose to look
At the youth's slumber; while another took
A willow-bough, distilling ...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...rden blazes brightly with the rose-bush and the peach,
 And the koil sings above it, in the siris by the well,
From the creeper-covered trellis comes the squirrel's chattering speech,
 And the blue jay screams and flutters where the cheery sat-bhai dwell.
But the rose has lost its fragrance, and the koil's note is strange;
 I am sick of endless sunshine, sick of blossom-burdened bough.
Give me back the leafless woodlands where the winds of Springtime range --
 Give me...Read more of this...



by Smart, Christopher
...one remarkably hard. God be gracious to Bennet. 

Let Mowbray, house of Mowbray rejoice with The Black and Blue Creeper a beautiful small bird of Brazil. 

Let Aldrich, house of Aldrich rejoice with the Trincalo or Tricolor, a leaf without a flower or the flower of a leaf. 

Let Culmer, house of Culmer rejoice with Phloginos a gem of a fire-colour. 

Let Catesby, house of Catesby rejoice with Cerites a precious stone like wax. 

Let Atterbury, house of...Read more of this...

by Lawson, Henry
...And a sorrow found us there; 
For our home amid the ranges 
Was not safe from searching Care. 
On he came, a silent creeper; 
And another mountain threw 
O'er our lives a shadow deeper 
Than the shade of Bukaroo. 

All the farm is disappearing; 
For the home has vanished now, 
Mountain scrub has choked the clearing, 
Hid the furrows of the plough. 
Nearer still the scrub is creeping 
Where the little garden grew; 
And the old folks now are sleeping 
At the foot of...Read more of this...

by Nesbitt, Kenn
...o study
so she can go play.
She’ll dig in her mine,
going deeper and deeper,
then fight off a skeleton,
zombie, or creeper.
She’ll engineer buildings
from dirt, wood, and stone,
then go out exploring
the landscape alone.
She’ll build and collect and
she’ll run, jump, and swing.
There’s only one problem…
we don’t learn a thing.
 --Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © Kenn Nesbitt 2016. All Rights Reserved....Read more of this...

by Stevens, Wallace
...p, but 
516 Marvelling sometimes at the shaken sleep. 
517 Then third, a thing still flaxen in the light, 
518 A creeper under jaunty leaves. And fourth, 
519 Mere blusteriness that gewgaws jollified, 
520 All din and gobble, blasphemously pink. 
521 A few years more and the vermeil capuchin 
522 Gave to the cabin, lordlier than it was, 
523 The dulcet omen fit for such a house. 
524 The second sister dallying was shy 
525 To fetch the one full-pinio...Read more of this...

by Gibran, Kahlil
...r was also the hunted: 

For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast. 

And the flier was also the creeper; 

For when my wings were spread in the sun their shadow upon the earth was a turtle. 

And I the believer was also the doubter; 

For often have I put my finger in my own wound that I might have the greater belief in you and the greater knowledge of you. 

And it is with this belief and this knowledge that I say, 

You are not enclosed withi...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.


Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;
And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.
The Jackal may follow the Tiger, but, Cub, whe...Read more of this...

by Piercy, Marge
...n the soil under your feet.
Penetrate quietly as the earthworm that blows no trumpet.
Fight persistently as the creeper that brings down the tree.
Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden.
Gnaw in the dark and use the sun to make sugar.

Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses.
Live a life you can endure: Make love that is loving.
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in,
a thicket and bramble wilderness t...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...Mellstock Lodge and Avenue 
 Towards her door I went, 
And sunset on her window-panes 
 Reflected our intent. 

The creeper on the gable nigh 
 Was fired to more than red 
And when I came to halt thereby 
 "Bright as my joy!" I said. 

Of late days it had been her aim 
 To meet me in the hall; 
Now at my footsteps no one came; 
 And no one to my call. 

Again I knocked; and tardily 
 An inner step was heard, 
And I was shown her presence then 
 With scarce an answ...Read more of this...

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