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Famous Eerily Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Morris, William
...Wearily, drearily,
Half the day long,
Flap the great banners
High over the stone;
Strangely and eerily
Sounds the wind's song,
Bending the banner-poles.

While, all alone,
Watching the loophole's spark,
Lie I, with life all dark,
Feet tether'd, hands fetter'd
Fast to the stone,
The grim walls, square-letter'd
With prison'd men's groan.

Still strain the banner-poles
Through the wind's song,
Westward the banner rolls
Over my wrong....Read more of this...



by Po, Li
...untain moon went all the way with me.
Backward I looked, to see the heights aflame
With a pale light that glimmered eerily.

A little lad undid the rustic latch
As hand in hand your cottage we did gain,
Where green limp tendrils at our cloaks did catch,
And dim bamboos o'erhung a shadowy lane.

Gaily I cried, "Here may we rest our fill!"
Then choicest wines we quaffed; and cheerily
"The Wind among the Pines" we sang, until
A few faint stars hung in the Galaxy....Read more of this...

by Morris, William
...Wearily, drearily,
Half the day long,
Flap the great banners
High over the stone;
Strangely and eerily
Sounds the wind's song,
Bending the banner-poles.

While, all alone,
Watching the loophole's spark,
Lie I, with life all dark,
Feet tether'd, hands fetter'd
Fast to the stone,
The grim walls, square-letter'd
With prison'd men's groan.

Still strain the banner-poles
Through the wind's song,
Westward the banner rolls
Over my wrong....Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...ll still the sky and darkling drearily;
She feels the chilly breath of dear, dead days
 Come sifting through the alders eerily.

Oh, how the roses riot in their bloom!
 The curtains stir as with an ancient pain;
Her old piano gleams from out the gloom
 And waits and waits her tender touch in vain.

But now her hands like moonlight brush the keys
 With velvet grace -- melodious delight;
And now a sad refrain from over seas
 Goes sobbing on the bosom of the night;

And ...Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...are greener,
Nipped by the frost till the tang of their loosened balsam is keener;
And one little wind in their boughs, eerily swaying and swinging,
Very soft and low, like a wandering minstrel is singing. 

Beautiful is the year, but not as the springlike maiden
Garlanded with her hopes­rather the woman laden
With wealth of joy and grief, worthily won through living,
Wearing her sorrow now like a garment of praise and thanksgiving. 

Gently the dark comes down over t...Read more of this...



by Lawson, Henry
...gs home.
And mud-stained, wet, and weary,
Through ranges dark goes he;
While hobble-chains and tinware
Are sounding eerily. 
. . . . .

The floods are in the ocean,
The stream is clear again,
And now a verdant carpet
Is stretched across the plain.
But someone's eyes are saddened,
And someone's heart still bleeds
In sorrow for the drover
Who sleeps among the reeds....Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...ellow from axle to felloe, 
Throats blank of sound, but prophetic to sight. 

IV 

Gas-glimmers drearily, blearily, eerily 
Lit our pale faces outstretched for one kiss, 
While we stood prest to them, with a last quest to them 
Not to court perils that honour could miss. 

V 

Sharp were those sighs of ours, blinded these eyes of ours, 
When at last moved away under the arch 
All we loved. Aid for them each woman prayed for them, 
Treading back slowly the track of...Read more of this...

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