Famous Encircles Poems by Famous Poets

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Beneath Night's falling dews and bending skies.
Her dark brown hair, with gleams of flitting gold,
Her queenly head encircles as a crown;
A wealth of hair whose careless waves enfold
The quivering sunlight, and its rays chain down.
But soon she starts, for even at her side
There stands a youthful from with fearless pride;
At first upon her face a deep surprise,
And then a haughty look within her eyes,
As turning round she views the handsome face
So near her own wi...Read more of this...
by Sherrick, Fannie Isabelle


Draw up your chair near mine

...d from the forehead to the lips.
How I love you then, my bright beloved, in your welcoming, gently swooning body, that encircles me in its turn and dissolves me in its gladness! Everything becomes dearer to me—your mouth, your arms, your kindly breasts where my poor, tired forehead will lie quietly near your heart after the moment of riotous pleasure that you grant me.
For I love you still better after the sensual hour, when your goodness, still more steadfast and maternal,...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

Punch Song

...g juice,
The strength of the acid
So burning reduce.

The bright sparkling water
Now pour in the bowl;
Water all-gently
Encircles the whole.

Let drops of the spirit
To join them now flow;
Life to the living
Naught else can bestow.

Drain it off quickly
Before it exhales;
Save when 'tis glowing,
The draught naught avails....Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

Sleepers The

...ern—the well-belov’d soldiers all pass
 through, 
The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns, 
The chief encircles their necks with his arm, and kisses them on the cheek, 
He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another—he shakes hands, and bids good-by
 to
 the
 army.

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Now I tell what my mother told me to-day as we sat at dinner together, 
Of when she was a nearly grown girl, living home with her parents on the old homestead. 

A red squaw came one break...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Coliseum

...d stones. 
Not all our power is gone- not all our fame- 
Not all the magic of our high renown- 
Not all the wonder that encircles us- 
Not all the mysteries that in us lie- 
Not all the memories that hang upon 
And cling around about us as a garment, 
Clothing us in a robe of more than glory."...Read more of this...
by Poe, Edgar Allan


The Flaming Circle

...ves in its growth.
Can this be the mystical marriage—this clash and communion;
This pain of possession that frees and encircles us both?...Read more of this...
by Untermeyer, Louis

The German Parnassus

...tirr'd my blood,
And the seal so pure and chaste
By them on my lips was placed.

With her modest pinions, see,
Philomel encircles me!
In these bushes, in yon grove,

Calls she to her sister-throng,

And their heavenly choral song
Teaches me to dream of love.

Fullness waxes in my breast
Of emotions social, blest;
Friendship's nurtured?love awakes,--
And the silence Phoebus breaks
Of his mountains, of his vales,
Sweetly blow the balmy gales;
All for whom he shows affection,
Wh...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

The Good Part That Shall Not Be Taken Away

...r pride
Are in the village school.

Her soul, like the transparent air
That robes the hills above,
Though not of earth, encircles there
All things with arms of love.

And thus she walks among her girls
With praise and mild rebukes;
Subduing e'en rude village churls
By her angelic looks.

She reads to them at eventide
Of One who came to save;
To cast the captive's chains aside
And liberate the slave.

And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, ...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Lascar

...ertile vallies glide
"To bathe the feasted Fiends of Pride!
"Or, hence, broad Sun ! extinguish'd be!
"For endless night encircles Me!

"What is, to me, the City gay?
"And what, the board profusely spread?
"I have no home, no rich array,
"No spicy feast, no downy bed!
"I, with the dogs am doom'd to eat,
"To perish in the peopled street,
"To drink the tear of deep despair;
"The scoff and scorn of fools to bear!
"I sleep upon a bed of stone,
"I pace the meadows, wild--alone!
"An...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

The Wanderer

...d,
Peacefully he slumbers!
Oh thou, born among the ruins
Spread by great antiquity,
On thee rest her spirit!
He whom it encircles
Will, in godlike consciousness,
Ev'ry day enjoy.
Full, of germ, unfold,
As the smiling springtime's
Fairest charm,
Outshining all thy fellows!
And when the blossom's husk is faded,
May the full fruit shoot forth
From out thy breast,
And ripen in the sunshine!

WOMAN.

God bless him!--Is he sleeping still?
To the fresh draught I nought can add,
Savi...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

To See Him Again

...ith quivering stars,
or during dawn's maiden brightness
or afternoons of sacrifice?

Or at the edge of a pale path
that encircles the farmlands,
or upon the rim of a trembling fountain,
whitened by a shimmering moon?

Or beneath the forest's
luxuriant, raveled tresses
where, calling his name,
I was overtaken by the night?
Not in the grotto that returns
the echo of my cry?

Oh no. To see him again --
it would not matter where --
in heaven's deadwater
or inside the boiling vort...Read more of this...
by Mistral, Gabriela

Unconscious

...kies though wrought
By the heavenly King yet know it not;
And man who moves in the twilight dim
Feels not the love that encircles him,
Though in heart, on bosom, and eyelids press
Lips of an infinite tenderness,
He turns away through the dark to roam
Nor heeds the fire in his hearth and home....Read more of this...
by Russell, George William

Under Siege

...eternity 
In the state of siege, space becomes time 
That has missed its yesterday and its tomorrow. 

*** 
The martyr encircles me every time I live a new day 
And questions me: Where were you? Take every word 
You have given me back to the dictionaries 
And relieve the sleepers from the echo’s buzz. 

*** 
The martyr enlightens me: beyond the expanse 
I did not look 
For the virgins of immortality for I love life 
On earth, amid fig trees and pines, 
But I cannot reach it,...Read more of this...
by Darwish, Mahmoud

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