Famous Earthy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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173. Elegy on Stella

...nd soundly sleeps the ever dear
 Inhabitant below.


Pardon my transport, gentle shade,
 While o’er the turf I bow;
Thy earthy house is circumscrib’d,
 And solitary now.


Not one poor stone to tell thy name,
 Or make thy virtues known:
But what avails to me-to thee,
 The sculpture of a stone?


I’ll sit me down upon this turf,
 And wipe the rising tear:
The chill blast passes swiftly by,
 And flits around thy bier.


Dark is the dwelling of the Dead,
 And sad their house of ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Absalom And Achitophel

...of thy metal made,
While nations stand secure beneath thy shade.
What though his birth were base, yet comets rise
From earthy vapours e'er they shine in skies.
Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver's issue, as by prince's son.
This arch-attestor, for the public good,
By that one deed ennobles all his blood.
Who ever ask'd the witnesses' high race,
Whose oath with martyrdom did Stephen grace?
Ours was a Levite, and as times went then,
His tribe were God-almighty's ...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

An Imitation of Spenser

...hro' heaven wide
Scatter'st the rays of light, and truth's beams,
In lucent words my darkling verses dight,
And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,
That wisdom may descend in fairy dreams,
All while the jocund hours in thy train
Scatter their fancies at thy poet's feet;
And when thou yields to night thy wide domain,
Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.
For brutish Pan in vain might thee assay
With tinkling sounds to dash thy nervous verse,
Sound without sense; ...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

Come Into the Garde Maud

...She is coming, my own, my sweet; 
Were it ever so airy a tread, 
My heart would hear her and beat, 
Were it earth in an earthy bed; 
My dust would hear her and beat, 
Had I lain for a century dead; 
Would start and tremble under her feet, 
And blossom in purple and red....Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Come Into The Garden Maud

...e is coming, my own, my sweet; 
 Were it ever so airy a tread, 
My heart would hear her and beat, 
 Were it earth in an earthy bed; 
My dust would hear her and beat, 
 Had I lain for a century dead; 
Would start and tremble under her feet, 
 And blossom in purple and red....Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


First Anniversary

...ignant than Saturn: 
And though they all Platonic years should reign, 
In the same posture would be found again. 
Their earthy projects under ground they lay, 
More slow and brittle than the China clay: 
Well may they strive to leave them to their son, 
For one thing never was by one king done. 
Yet some more active for a frontier town, 
Taken by proxy, beg a false renown; 
Another triumphs at the public cost, 
And will have won, if he no more have lost; 
They fight by others...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Isabella or The Pot of Basil

..., child?--What good can thee betide,
"That thou should'st smile again?"--The evening came,
And they had found Lorenzo's earthy bed;
The flint was there, the berries at his head.

XLV.
Who hath not loiter'd in a green church-yard,
And let his spirit, like a demon-mole,
Work through the clayey soil and gravel hard,
To see skull, coffin'd bones, and funeral stole;
Pitying each form that hungry Death hath marr'd,
And filling it once more with human soul?
Ah! this is holiday to wh...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Lachin Y Gair

...h! were you destined to die at Culloden, 
Victory crowned not your fall with applause: 
Still were you happy in death's earthy slumber, 
You rest with your clan in the caves of Braemar; 
The pibroch resounds, to the piper's loud number, 
Your deeds on the echoes of dark Loch na Garr. 

Years have rolled on, Loch na Garr, since I left you, 
Years must elapse ere I tread you again: 
Nature of verdure and flowers has bereft you, 
Yet still are you dearer than Albion's plain. 
En...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Lui Et Elle

...large, I am almost frightened.

He is much smaller,
Dapper beside her,
And ridiculously small.

Her laconic eye has an earthy, materialistic look,
His, poor darling, is almost fiery.
His wimple, his blunt-prowed face,
His low forehead, his skinny neck, his long, scaled, striving legs,
So striving, striving,
Are all more delicate than she,
And he has a cruel scar on his shell.

Poor darling, biting at her feet,
Running beside her like a dog, biting her earthy, splay feet,
Nip...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Maud

...is coming, my own, my sweet; 
Were it ever so airy a tread, 
My heart would hear her and beat, 
Were it earth in an earthy bed; 70 
My dust would hear her and beat, 
Had I lain for a century dead; 
Would start and tremble under her feet, 
And blossom in purple and red. ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Morning (Love Sonnet XXVII)

...Naked you are simple as one of your hands;
Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round.
You've moon-lines, apple pathways
Naked you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

Naked you are blue as a night in Cuba;
You've vines and stars in your hair.
Naked you are spacious and yellow
As summer in a golden church.

Naked you are tiny as one of your nails;
Curved, subtle, rosy, till the day is born
And you withdraw...Read more of this...
by Neruda, Pablo

On Being Human

...no nose.

The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes 
On death, and why, they utterly know; but not 
The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries. 
The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot 
Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate 
Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf's billowy curves, 
Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges.
—An angel has no nerves.

Far richer they! I know the senses' witchery 
Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see; 
I...Read more of this...
by Lewis, C S

On Time

...supreme Throne
Of him, t'whose happy-making sight alone,
When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime,
Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, 
Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time....Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Sea Dreams

...e landward exit of the cave,
Bright with the sun upon the stream beyond:
And near the light a giant woman sat,
All over earthy, like a piece of earth,
A pickaxe in her hand: then out I slipt
Into a land all of sun and blossom, trees
As high as heaven, and every bird that sings:
And here the night-light flickering in my eyes
Awoke me.' 

`That was then your dream,' she said,
`Not sad, but sweet.' 

`So sweet, I lay,' said he,
`And mused upon it, drifting up the stream
In fancy...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Grave-digger

...than he can know,
The grave-digger brings his human woe,
That never wears out, and lays its head
Slowly down in that earthy bed.


By all the surrounding roads, each day
They come towards him, the coffins white,
They come in processions infinite;
They come from the distances far away.
From corners obscure and out-of-the-way.
From the heart of the towns—and the wide-spreading
plain.
The limitless plain, swallows up their track;
They come with their escort of peop...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

The Living Dead

...inted;
And some, alas! were very bad,
And some, alack! were best unprinted.
But if I've made my muse a bawd
(Since I am earthy as a ditch is),
I'll answer humbly to my God:
Most men at times have toyed with bitches.

Yes, I have played with Lady Rhyme,
And had a long and lovely innings;
And when the Umpire calls my time
I'll blandly quit and take my winnings.
I'll hie me to some Sleepydale,
And feed the ducks and pat the poodles,
And prime my paunch with cakes and ale,
And bl...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Old Age Of Queen Maeve

...call
The children of the Maines out of sleep,
And set them digging under Bual's hill.
We shadows, while they uproot his earthy housc,
Will overthrow his shadows and carry off
Caer, his blue-eyed daughter that I love.
I helped your fathers when they built these walls,
And I would have your help in my great need,
Queen of high Cruachan.'
 'I obey your will
With speedy feet and a most thankful heart:
For you have been, O Aengus of the birds,
Our giver of good counsel and good lu...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

The Triumph Of Death

...which the world doth fear;Another company, who had not beenFreed from their earthy burden there were seen,To try if prayers could appease the wrath,Or stay th' inexorable hand, of Death.That beauteous crowd convened to see the endWhich all must taste; each neighbour, every friendStood by, when grim Death with her hand took h...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Why Do Birds Sing?

...lling as I write
Its obligato of delight;
And in its fervour, as in mine,
I fathom tenderness divine,
And pity those of earthy ear
Who cannot hear . . . who cannot hear.

Let poets pattern pretty words:
For lovely largesse - bless you, Birds!...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

You Andrew Marvell

...th's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night

To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow

And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change

And now at Kermanshah the gate
Dark empty and the withered grass
And through the twilight now the late
Few travelers in the we...Read more of this...
by MacLeish, Archibald

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