Famous Framing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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First Anniversary

...wondrous order and consent, 
When Cromwell tuned the ruling Instrument, 
While tedious statesmen many years did hack, 
Framing a liberty that still went back, 
Whose numerous gorge could swallow in an hour 
That island, which the sea cannot devour: 
Then our Amphion issued out and sings, 
And once he struck, and twice, the powerful strings. 

The Commonwealth then first together came, 
And each one entered in the willing frame; 
All other matter yields, and may be ruled; 
Bu...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


Gods Funeral

...we, thy knell who shall survive?
Whence came it we were tempted to create
One whom we can no longer keep alive?

VII 
'Framing him jealous, fierce, at first,
We gave him justice as the ages rolled,
Will to bless those by circumstance accurst,
And longsuffering, and mercies manifold.

VIII 
'And, tricked by our own early dream
And need of solace, we grew self-deceived,
Our making soon our maker did we deem,
And what we had imagined we believed,

IX 
'Till, in Time's stayless ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

I could not think of thee as piecèd rot,

...wert laid, and saw

The natural flowers ignoring thee sans blame,

And the encroaching grass, with casual flaw,

Framing the stone to age where was thy name,

I knew not how to feel, nor what to be

Towards thy fate's material secrecy....Read more of this...
by Pessoa, Fernando

Long Long Ago

...
After that its happiness and dancing in the hawthornes!
The aperitifs had changed the names and colors
Of the rainbows framing the mirrors.

Long long ago you loved me....Read more of this...
by Desnos, Robert

Revulsion

...THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter
Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss,
Out of the night there looms a sense 'twere better
To fail obtaining whom one fails to miss.

For winning love we win the risk of losing,
And losing love is as one's life were riven;
It cuts like contumely and keen ill-using
To cede what was superfluously given.

Let me then feel no more the ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


Sea Dreams

...ld;
He at his own: but when the wordy storm
Had ended, forth they came and paced the shore,
Ran in and out the long sea-framing caves,
Drank the large air, and saw, but scarce believed
(The sootflake of so many a summer still
Clung to their fancies) that they saw, the sea.
So now on sand they walk'd, and now on cliff,
Lingering about the thymy promontories,
Till all the sails were darken'd in the west,
And rosed in the east: then homeward and to bed:
Where she, who kept a ten...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Song of the Broad-Axe

...he echoes resounding through the vacant building; 
The huge store-house carried up in the city, well under way,
The six framing-men, two in the middle, and two at each end, carefully bearing on their
 shoulders a
 heavy stick for a cross-beam, 
The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long
 side-wall, two
 hundred feet from front to rear, 
The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the
 bricks, 
The...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C

...hat wondrous Order and Consent,
When Cromwell tun'd the ruling Instrument;
While tedious Statesmen many years did hack,
Framing a Liberty that still went back;
Whose num'rous Gorge could swallow in an hour
That Island, which the Sea cannot devour:
Then our Amphion issues out and sings,
And once he struck, and twice, the pow'rful Strings.
The Commonwealth then first together came,
And each one enter'd in the willing Frame;
All other Matter yields, and may be rul'd;
But who the...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

The Last Meeting

...men to fight. 
Lightly along the terraces I trod, 
Crunching the rubble till I found the door 
That gaped in twilight, framing inward gloom. 
An owl flew out from under the high eaves 
To vanish secretly among the firs,
Where lofty boughs netted the gleam of stars. 
I stumbled in; the dusty floors were strewn 
With cumbering piles of planks and props and beams; 
Tall windows gapped the walls; the place was free 
To every searching gust and jousting gale;
But now they slept; ...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

The Mountain And The Lake

...my mountain -- well I know,
For I have watched it from its dawn-dream start,
Stilling its mirror to her splendid snow,
Framing her image in its trembling heart;
Glassing her graciousness of greening wood,
Kissing her throne, melodiously mad,
Thrilling responsive to her every mood,
Gloomed with her sadness, gay when she is glad.

My lake has dreamed and loved since time was born;
Will love and dream till time shall cease to be;
Gazing to Her in worship half forlorn,
Who looks...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt)

...and their fain eyes looked and loved,
As she told of the hidden matters whereby the world is moved:
And she told of the framing of all things, and the houses of the heaven;
And she told of the star-worlds' courses, and how the winds be driven;
And she told of the Norns and their names, and the fate that abideth the earth;
And she told of the ways of the King-folk in their anger and their mirth;
And she spoke of the love of women, and told of the flame that burns,
And the fall...Read more of this...
by Morris, William

The Torture of Cuauhtemoc

...cent fell to chide or to betray, 
Only it chanced that bound beside the king 
Lay one whom Nature, more than other men 
Framing for delicate and perfumed ease, 
Not yet, along the happy ways of Youth, 
Had weaned from gentle usages so far 
To teach that fortitude that warriors feel 
And glory in the proof. He answered not, 
But writhing with intolerable pain, 
Convulsed in every limb, and all his face 
Wrought to distortion with the agony, 
Turned on his lord a look of wild a...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

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