Famous Devine Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Lyric Day

...hy die, say I? Let us live on
In lyric world of song and shine,
With ecstasy from dawn to dawn,
Until we greet the dawn Devine.
For I believe, with star and sun,
With peak and plain, with sea and sod,
Inextricably we are one,
Bound in the Wholeness - God....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Chopin

...voice was needed, sweet and true and fine 
As the sad spirit of the evening breeze, 
Throbbing with human passion, yet devine 
As the wild bird's untutored melodies. 
A voice for him 'neath twilight heavens dim, 
Who mourneth for his dead, while round him fall 
The wan and noiseless leaves. A voice for him 
Who sees the first green sprout, who hears the call 
Of the first robin on the first spring day. 
A voice for all whom Fate hath set apart, 
Who, still misprized, must pe...Read more of this...
by Lazarus, Emma

Les pas

...dent muets et glacés.

Personne pure, ombre divine,
Qu'ils sont doux, tes pas retenus !
Dieux !... tous les dons que je devine
Viennent à moi sur ces pieds nus ! 

Si, de tes lèvres avancées,
Tu prépares pour l'apaiser,
A l'habitant de mes pensées
La nourriture d'un baiser, 

Ne hâte pas cet acte tendre,
Douceur d'être et de n'être pas,
Car j'ai vécu de vous attendre,
Et mon coeur n'était que vos pas....Read more of this...
by Valery, Paul

Marthys younkit

...e first on Red Hoss Mountain, wuz truly a' event!
The miners sawed off short on work ez soon ez they got word
That Dock Devine allowed to Casey what had just occurred;
We loaded up an' whooped around until we all wuz hoarse
Salutin' the arrival, wich weighed ten pounds, uv course!

Three years, and sech a pretty child!--his mother's counterpart!
Three years, an' sech a holt ez he had got on every heart!
A peert an' likely little tyke with hair ez red ez gold,
A-laughin', todd...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

Saltbush Bills Second Flight

...e is not a fighting man at all! 
He has shaved his beard, and has cut his hair, but I spotted him at a look; 
He is Tom Devine, who has worked for years for Saltbush Bill as cook. 
Bill coached him up in the fighting yard, and taught him the tale by rote, 
And they shammed to fight, and they got your grass, and divided your five-pound note. 
'Twas a clean take-in; and you'll find it wise -- 'twill save you a lot of pelf -- 
When next you're hiring a fighting man, just fight h...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


The Passing of Gundagai

...This Gundagai turned out to be 
For strife and all-round villainy 
The very worst I ever knew! 

He started racing Jack Devine, 
And grumbled when I made him stop. 
The pace he showed was extra fine, 
But all those pure-bred ewes of mine 
Were bleeding like a butcher's shop. 

He cursed the sheep, he cursed the shed, 
From roof to rafter, floor to shelf: 
As for my mongrel ewes, he said, 
I ought to get a razor-blade 
And shave the blooming things myself. 

On Sundays he cont...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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