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Famous Estranges Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hall, Donald
...old woman,
middle-aged against our old age,
sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand. 
Another friend of decades estranges himself 
in words that pollute thirty years. 
Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge 
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything....Read more of this...



by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...but this the sound of thy sad soul, 
 The shadow of thy swift spirit, this shut scroll 
I lay my hand on, and not death estranges 
 My spirit from communion of thy song-- 
 These memories and these melodies that throng 
Veil'd porches of a Muse funereal-- 
 These I salute, these touch, these clasp and fold 
 As though a hand were in my hand to hold, 
Or through mine ears a mourning musical 
 Of many mourners roll'd. 

I among these, I also, in such station 
 As when the p...Read more of this...

by Gordon, Adam Lindsay
...arder to keep --
We had strength to labour and souls to reason,
And seed to scatter and fruits to reap.
Though time estranges and fate disperses,
We have had our loves and loving mercies.
Though the gifts of the light in the end are curses,
Yet bides the gift of darkness -- sleep!

See! girt with tempest and wing'd with thunder,
And clad with lightning and shod with sleet,
The strong winds treading the swift waves sunder
The flying rollers with frothy feet.
One gl...Read more of this...

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