Famous Enrapture Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Lyric Day

...I deem that there are lyric days
So ripe with radiance and cheer,
So rich with gratitude and praise
That they enrapture all the year.
And if there is a God babove,
(As they would tell me in the Kirk,)
How he must look with pride and love
Upon his perfect handiwork!

To-day has been a lyric day
I hope I shall remember long,
Of meadow dance and roundelay,
Of woodland glee, of glow and song.
Such joy I saw in maidens eyes,
In mother gaze such tender bliss . . .
How ear...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Apollo Musagetes

...at garments out-glistening
The gold-flower'd broom? 

What sweet-breathing presence
Out-perfumes the thyme?
What voices enrapture
The night's balmy prime? 

'Tis Apollo comes leading
His choir, the Nine.
--The leader is fairest,
But all are divine. 

They are lost in the hollows!
They stream up again!
What seeks on this mountain
The glorified train?-- 

They bathe on this mountain,
In the spring by their road;
Then on to Olympus,
Their endless abode. 

--Whose proase do they ...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

Canal Bank Walk

...a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven 
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven....Read more of this...
by Kavanagh, Patrick

Duino Elegies: The First Elegy

...st godlike youth suddenly left forever,
and the emptiness felt for the first time
those harmonious vibrations which now enrapture
and comfort and help us....Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria

Song of Callicles The

...hat garments out-glistening
The gold-flower'd broom?

What sweet-breathing Presence
Out-perfumes the thyme?
What voices enrapture
The night's balmy prime?—

'Tis Apollo comes leading
His choir, The Nine.
—The Leader is fairest,
But all are divine.

They are lost in the hollows.
They stream up again.
What seeks on this mountain
The glorified train?—

They bathe on this mountain,
In the spring by their road.
Then on to Olympus,
Their endless abode.

—Whose praise do they mentio...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew


The Song of Callicles

...hat garments out-glistening
The gold-flower'd broom?

What sweet-breathing Presence
Out-perfumes the thyme?
What voices enrapture
The night's balmy prime?—

'Tis Apollo comes leading
His choir, The Nine.
—The Leader is fairest,
But all are divine.

They are lost in the hollows.
They stream up again.
What seeks on this mountain
The glorified train?—

They bathe on this mountain,
In the spring by their road.
Then on to Olympus,
Their endless abode.

—Whose praise do they mentio...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

To M

...in those once celestial eyes.

These might the boldest Sylph appall,
When gleaming with meridian blaze;
Thy beauty must enrapture all;
But who can dare thine ardent gaze?

'Tis said that Berenice's hair,
In stars adorns the vault of heaven;
But they would ne'er permit thee there,
Who wouldst so far outshine the seven.

For did those eyes as planets roll,
Thy sister-lights would scarce appear:
E'en suns, which systems now control,
Would twinkle dimly through their sphere....Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

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