Famous Easeful Poems by Famous Poets

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

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crematorium-return

...soar then hover - sucked to grass
flatten about me as soft-soaked boards 
matting me to this parent place

and then i'm easeful - a hand scoops
dissent away (leaves me as tree)
settles the self down to its true
abasement where nothing escapes
its wanting (earth flesh being free)

i'm taken by your touching
there's no skin between us now
as tree i am death's avenue
you are its fruits attaching
distilled ripeness to the bough

i possess the step i came for
my senses burst into ...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


Gareth And Lynette

...speak, and doubted him 
No more than he, himself; but felt him mine, 
Of closest kin to me: yet--wilt thou leave 
Thine easeful biding here, and risk thine all, 
Life, limbs, for one that is not proven King? 
Stay, till the cloud that settles round his birth 
Hath lifted but a little. Stay, sweet son.' 

And Gareth answered quickly, 'Not an hour, 
So that ye yield me--I will walk through fire, 
Mother, to gain it--your full leave to go. 
Not proven, who swept the dust of ruin...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Having it Out with Melancholy

...
9WOOD THRUSH


High on Nardil and June light 
I wake at four, 
waiting greedily for the first
note of the wood thrush. Easeful air 
presses through the screen 
with the wild, complex song 
of the bird, and I am overcome


by ordinary contentment. 
What hurt me so terribly 
all my life until this moment? 
How I love the small, swiftly 
beating heart of the bird 
singing in the great maples; 
its bright, unequivocal eye....Read more of this...
by Kenyon, Jane

Ode to a Nightingale

...murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50 

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time 
I have been half in love with easeful Death, 
Call'd him soft names in many a mus¨¨d rhyme, 
To take into the air my quiet breath; 
Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 55 
To cease upon the midnight with no pain, 
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad 
In such an ecstasy! 
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain¡ª 
To thy high requiem become a sod. 60 

Tho...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Romance

...notes of mating birds;

To hear you ask if I shall love always,
And myself answer: Till the end of days;

To feel your easeful sigh of happiness
When on your trembling lips I murmur: Yes;

It is so sweet. We know it is not true.
What matters it? The night must shed her dew.

We know it is not true, but it is sweet -- 
The poem with this music is complete....Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude


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