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Famous Discoloured Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lawrence, D. H.
...st of a blossom, shows 
Night blenched with a thousand snows. 

Of hawthorn and of lilac trees, 
White lilac; shows discoloured night 
Dripping with all the golden lees 
Laburnum gives back to light. 

And shows the red of hawthorn set 
On high to the purple heaven of night, 
Like flags in blenched blood newly wet, 
Blood shed in the noiseless fight. 

Of life for love and love for life, 
Of hunger for a little food, 
Of kissing, lost for want of a wife 
Long ago,...Read more of this...



by Byron, George (Lord)
...ng and green,
Luxuriant with their annual leaves,
Ere strown by those autumnal eves
That nip the forest's foliage dead,
Discoloured with a lifeless red,
Which stands thereon like stiffened gore
Upon the slain when battle's o'er,
And some long winter's night hath shed
Its frost o'er every tombless head,
So cold and stark, the raven's beak
May peck unpierced each frozen cheek:
'Twas a wild waste of underwood, 
And here and there a chestnut stood, 
The strong oak, and the hardy ...Read more of this...

by Southey, Robert
...nt on.

The full-orb'd moon that beam'd around
Pale splendor thro' the night,
Cast through the crimson canopy
A dim-discoloured light.

And swiftly down the hurrying stream
In silence still they sail,
And the long streamer fluttering fast
Flapp'd to the heavy gale.

And he was mute in sullen thought
And she was mute with fear,
Nor sound but of the parting tide
Broke on the listening ear.

The little babe began to cry
And waked his mother's care,
"Now give to m...Read more of this...

by Marvell, Andrew
...s shed; 
That port which so majestic was and strong, 
Loose and deprived of vigour, stretched along: 
All withered, all discoloured, pale and wan-- 
How much another thing, nor more that man? 
Oh human glory vain, oh death, oh wings, 
Oh worthless world, oh transitory things! 

Yet dwelt that greatnesss in his shape decayed, 
That still through dead, greater than death he laid: 
And in his altered face you something feign 
That threatens death he yet will live again. 

No...Read more of this...

by St Vincent Millay, Edna
...ur grief.

Boys and girls that steal
From the shocking laughter
Of the old, to kneel
By a dripping rafter
Under the discoloured eaves,
Out of trunks with hingeless covers
Lifting tales of saints and lovers,
Travellers, goblins, theives,

Suns that shine by night,
Mountains made from valleys,—
Bear me to the light,
Flat upon your bellies
By the webby window lie,
Where the little flies are crawling,
Read me, margin me with scrawling,
Do no let me die!

Sexton, ply your trad...Read more of this...



by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...l side
Was indeed one of that deluded crew,
And that the grass which methought hung so wide
And white, was but his thin discoloured hair,
And that the holes it vainly sought to hide
Were or had been eyes.--"lf thou canst forbear
To join the dance, which I had well forborne,"
Said the grim Feature, of my thought aware,
"I will now tell that which to this deep scorn
Led me & my companions, and relate
The progress of the pageant since the morn;
"If thirst of knowledge doth n...Read more of this...

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