Famous Dismissing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Her Immortality

...re;
On your fidelity I count
Through many a coming year."

--I started through me at her plight,
So suddenly confessed:
Dismissing late distaste for life,
I craved its bleak unrest.

"I will not die, my One of all!--
To lengthen out thy days
I'll guard me from minutest harms
That may invest my ways!"

She smiled and went. Since then she comes
Oft when her birth-moon climbs,
Or at the seasons' ingresses
Or anniversary times;

But grows my grief. When I surcease,
Through whom a...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


I or Someone Like Me

...dded in the bass of boughs,
the tenor of branches, the percussion of twigs.

He, or someone like him, laughed at first,
dismissing what had happened as the incandescence
of youthful metabolism, as the slight fermentation
of the last of the wine, or as each excuse of love.
Learning then the constancy of music and of mind,
now he takes seriously that visionary wood
where he saw his being and his future underfoot
and someone like me listening for a resolution....Read more of this...
by Bell, Marvin

Night Piece

...w the silence up,
A blanket round your ears;
Lay darkness close and sure,
Inverted cup to cup
On your acquiescent eyes:
Dismissing body's last outposted spies....Read more of this...
by Tessimond, A S J

Paradise Lost: Book 02

...e settled state 
Of order, how in safety best we may 
Compose our present evils, with regard 
Of what we are and where, dismissing quite 
All thoughts of war. Ye have what I advise." 
 He scarce had finished, when such murmur filled 
Th' assembly as when hollow rocks retain 
The sound of blustering winds, which all night long 
Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull 
Seafaring men o'erwatched, whose bark by chance 
Or pinnace, anchors in a craggy bay 
After the tempe...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Samson Agonistes

...re coming to the
Feast before the Lords and People, to play or shew his strength in
thir presence; he at first refuses, dismissing the publick officer with
absolute denyal to come; at length perswaded inwardly that this
was from God, he yields to go along with him, who came now the
second time with great threatnings to fetch him; the Chorus yet
remaining on the place, Manoa returns full of joyful hope, to
procure e're long his Sons deliverance: in the midst of which
discourse...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Starting from Paumanok

...thing can ever be greater—nothing can ever deserve more than it
 deserves; 
Regarding it all intently a long while—then dismissing it,
I stand in my place, with my own day, here. 

Here lands female and male; 
Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world—here the flame of
 materials; 
Here Spirituality, the translatress, the openly-avow’d, 
The ever-tending, the finale of visible forms;
The satisfier, after due long-waiting, now advancing, 
Yes, here comes my mistress, th...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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