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Famous Fleeted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brontë, Emily
...cks of wandering sheep.

Even as I stood with raptured eye,
Absorbed in bliss so deep and dear,
My hour of rest had fleeted by,
And back came labour, bondage, care....Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...hipmen and Scotsmen. 

Then the Norse leader,
Dire was his need of it,
Few were his following,
Fled to his warship;
Fleeted his vessel to sea with the king in it,
Saving his life on the fallow flood. 

Also the crafty one,
Constantinus,
Crept to his north again,
Hoar-headed hero! 

Slender warrant had
He to be proud of
The welcome of war-knives--
He that was reft of his
Folk and his friends that had
Fallen in conflict,
Leaving his son too
Lost in the carnage,
Mangled ...Read more of this...

by Moore, Thomas
...she still display, 
And, when nearest, and most inviting, 
Then waft the fair gem away? 

If thus the young hours have fleeted, 
When sorrow itself look'd bright; 
If thus the fair hope hath cheated, 
That led thee along so light; 
If thus the cold world now wither 
Each feeling that once was dear -- 
Come, child of misfortune, come hither, 
I'll weep with thee, tear for tear....Read more of this...

by Schiller, Friedrich von
...n the twenty-membered hart,
Than the mountain roe?

Where the arm that sturdily
Bent the deadly bow?
See, its life hath fleeted by,--
See, it hangeth low!

Happy he!--He now has gone
Where no snow is found:
Where with maize the fields are sown,
Self-sprung from the ground;

Where with birds each bush is filled,
Where with game the wood;
Where the fish, with joy unstilled,
Wanton in the flood.

With the spirits blest he feeds,--
Leaves us here in gloom;
We can only praise ...Read more of this...

by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...zard, interest. 

And are they thus? The fine, the fingering beams
Their young delightful hour do feature down
That fleeted else like day-dissolv?d dreams 
Or ringlet-race on burling Barrow brown. 

She leans on him with such contentment fond 
As well the sister sits, would well the wife; 
His looks, the soul’s own letters, see beyond,
Gaze on, and fall directly forth on life. 

But ah, bright forelock, cluster that you are 
Of favoured make and mind and health an...Read more of this...



by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...me then!
And I said, "Play once more to me!"

And he kindly play'd again,
So la, la! &c.

All my peace for aye has fleeted,

All my happiness has flown;
Yet my ears are ever greeted

With that olden, blissful tone,
So la, la! &c.

1791....Read more of this...

by Russell, George William
...sleep.


The ruby vesture wrapped us round
As twain in one; we left behind
The league-long murmur of the shore
And fleeted swifter than the wind.


The distance rushed upon the bark:
We neared unto the mystic isles:
The heavenly city we could mark,
Its mountain light, its jewel dark,
Its pinnacles and starry piles.


The glory brightened: “Do not fear;
For we are real, though what seems
So proudly built above the waves
Is but one mighty spirit’s dreams.


“Ou...Read more of this...

by Schiller, Friedrich von
...then sang,
And figures divine saw the light;--
The age that acknowledged sweet phantasy's sway
Can never return, it has fleeted away.

The gods from their seats in the heavens were hurled,
And their pillars of glory o'erthrown;
And the Son of the Virgin appeared in the world
For the sins of mankind to atone.
The fugitive lusts of the sense were suppressed,
And man now first grappled with thought in his breast.

Each vain and voluptuous charm vanished now,
Wherein ...Read more of this...

by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...window,
Kept awake my loving spirit,
Rousing new and tender yearnings
In my newly-waken'd bosom.
And the night thus fleeted o'er me,
And Aurora found me sleeping,--
Ay, the sun could scarce arouse me.

Now at length is come the Summer,
And the early fly so busy
Draws me from my pleasing slumbers
At the first-born morning-glimmer.
Mercilessly then returns she,
Though the half-aroused one often
Scares her from him with impatience,
And she lures her shameless sisters...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...t other, when she came 
From barren deeps to conquer all with love; 
And down the streaming crystal dropt; and she 
Far-fleeted by the purple island-sides, 
Naked, a double light in air and wave, 
To meet her Graces, where they decked her out 
For worship without end; nor end of mine, 
Stateliest, for thee! but mute she glided forth, 
Nor glanced behind her, and I sank and slept, 
Filled through and through with Love, a happy sleep. 

Deep in the night I woke: she, near m...Read more of this...

by Russell, George William
...THE TWILIGHT fleeted away in pearl on the stream,
And night, like a diamond done, stood still in our dream.
Your eyes like burnished stones or as stars were bright
With the sudden vision that made us one with the night.


We loved in infinite spaces, forgetting here
The breasts that were lit with life and the lips so near;
Till the wizard willows waved in the win...Read more of this...

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