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Famous Cubit Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...Moon -- and Star!
You are very far --
But were no one
Farther than you --
Do you think I'd stop
For a Firmament --
Or a Cubit -- or so?

I could borrow a Bonnet
Of the Lark --
And a Chamois' Silver Boot --
And a stirrup of an Antelope --
And be with you -- Tonight!

But, Moon, and Star,
Though you're very far --
There is one -- farther than you --
He -- is more than a firmament -- from Me --
So I can never go!...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily



...nd a tawny mask
Of drifting cloud, and from the ocean's marge
Rose the red plume, the huge and horned casque,
The seven-cubit spear, the brazen targe!
And clad in bright and burnished panoply
Athena strode across the stretch of sick and shivering sea!

To the dull sailors' sight her loosened looks
Seemed like the jagged storm-rack, and her feet
Only the spume that floats on hidden rocks,
And, marking how the rising waters beat
Against the rolling ship, the pilot cried
To the ...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar
...amused, 
And listened with a patient grace 
That we, the wise ones, had refused;

I think of metres that he wrote 
For Cubit, the ophidian guest: 
“What Lilith, or Dark Lady”… Well, 
Time swallows Cubit with the rest. 

I think of last words that he said
One midnight over Calverly: 
“Good-by—good man.” He was not good; 
So Clavering was wrong, you see. 

I wonder what had come to pass 
Could he have borrowed for a spell
The fiery-frantic indolence 
That made a ghost of Leffi...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...et. 
Till days go out which now go on.

XII

Only to lift the turf unmown 
From off the earth where it has grown, 
Some cubit-space, and say ‘Behold, 
Creep in, poor Heart, beneath that fold, 
Forgetting how the days go on.’


XIII

What harm would that do? Green anon 
The sward would quicken, overshone 
By skies as blue; and crickets might 
Have leave to chirp there day and night 
While my new rest went on, went on.

XIV

From gracious Nature have I won
Such liberal bounty? ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...rrowful, 
And down upon him bare the bandit three. 
And at the midmost charging, Prince Geraint 
Drave the long spear a cubit through his breast 
And out beyond; and then against his brace 
Of comrades, each of whom had broken on him 
A lance that splintered like an icicle, 
Swung from his brand a windy buffet out 
Once, twice, to right, to left, and stunned the twain 
Or slew them, and dismounting like a man 
That skins the wild beast after slaying him, 
Stript from the thre...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord



...My God -- He sees thee --
Shine thy best --
Fling up thy Balls of Gold
Till every Cubit play with thee
And every Crescent hold --
Elate the Acre at his feet --
Upon his Atom swim --
Oh Sun -- but just a Second's right
In thy long Race with him!...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily
...ved his tents far off; 
Then, from the mountain hewing timber tall, 
Began to build a vessel of huge bulk; 
Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and highth; 
Smeared round with pitch; and in the side a door 
Contrived; and of provisions laid in large, 
For man and beast: when lo, a wonder strange! 
Of every beast, and bird, and insect small, 
Came sevens, and pairs; and entered in as taught 
Their order: last the sire and his three sons, 
With their four wives; and God mad...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry