Famous Day Of Rest Poems by Famous Poets

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

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313. Lament of Mary Queen of Scots

...NOW Nature hangs her mantle green
 On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o’ daisies white
 Out o’er the grassy lea;
Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams,
 And glads the azure skies;
But nought can glad the weary wight
 That fast in durance lies.


Now laverocks wake the merry morn
 Aloft on dewy wing;
The merle, in his noontide bow’r,
 Makes woo...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


A Song To David

...
Did God impress His hallow'd name, 
 For ocular belief. 

 XXXVII 
OMEGA! GREATEST and the BEST, 
Stands sacred to the day of rest, 
 For gratitude and thought; 
Which bless'd the world upon his pole, 
And gave the universe his goal, 
 And clos'd th'infernal draught. 

 XXXVIII 
O DAVID, scholar of the Lord! 
Such is thy science, whence reward
 And infinite degree; 
O strength, O sweetness, lasting ripe! 
God's harp thy symbol, and thy type 
 The lion and the bee! 

 XXXIX 
...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher

Nagasaki Days

...listening to Black spirituals, tapping their feet, appreciating
 words singing by in mountain winds
on a pleasant sunny day of rest -- the wild wind blew thru
 blue Heavens
filled with fluffy clouds stretched from Central City to Rocky
 Flats, Plutonium sizzled in its secret bed,
hot dogs sizzled in the Lion's Club lunchwagon microwave
 mouth, orangeade bubbled over in waxen cups
Traffic moved along Colefax, meditators silent in the Diamond
 Castle shrine-room at Boulder foll...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

Samson Agonistes

...ight bereav'd
May chance to number thee with those
Whom Patience finally must crown.
This Idols day hath bin to thee no day of rest,
Labouring thy mind
More then the working day thy hands,
And yet perhaps more trouble is behind. 
For I descry this way
Some other tending, in his hand
A Scepter or quaint staff he bears,
Comes on amain, speed in his look.
By his habit I discern him now
A Public Officer, and now at hand.
His message will be short and voluble.

Off: Ebrews, the Pr...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

When the Children Come Home

...On a lonely selection far out in the West 
An old woman works all the day without rest, 
And she croons, as she toils 'neath the sky's glassy dome, 
`Sure I'll keep the ould place till the childer come home.' 

She mends all the fences, she grubs, and she ploughs, 
She drives the old horse and she milks all the cows, 
And she sings to herself as she thatch...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry


When the Children Come Home

...On a lonely selection far out in the West 
An old woman works all the day without rest, 
And she croons, as she toils 'neath the sky's glassy dome, 
`Sure I'll keep the ould place till the childer come home.' 

She mends all the fences, she grubs, and she ploughs, 
She drives the old horse and she milks all the cows, 
And she sings to herself as she thatch...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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