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Famous Gabled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
...ugh twisted cherry-trees The old house glowed, 
geranium-hued, with bricks
Bloomed in the sun like roses, low and long, Gabled, 
and with quaint tricks
Of chimneys carved and fretted. Out of these
Grey smoke was shaken, which the faint Spring breeze
Tossed into nothing. Then a thrush's 
song

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Needled its way through sound of bees and river. The 
notes fell, round and starred, between young leaves,
Trilled to a spiral lilt, stopped on a quiver. The Lady Eu...Read more of this...



by Dyke, Henry Van
...the discreet and tranquil Quaker dwellings,
With their demure brick faces and immaculate white-stone doorsteps;
And the gabled houses of the Dutch, with their high stoops and iron railings,
(I can see their little brass knobs shining in the morning sunlight);
And the solid houses of the descendants of the Puritans,
Fronting the street with their narrow doors and dormer-windows;
And the triple-galleried, many-pillared mansions of Charleston,
Standing sideways in their gardens ...Read more of this...

by Dyke, Henry Van
...AUGUST 17, 1914 

The gabled roofs of old Malines
Are russet red and gray and green,
And o'er them in the sunset hour
Looms, dark and huge, St. Rombold's tower.
High in that rugged nest concealed,
The sweetest bells that ever pealed,
The deepest bells that ever rung,
The lightest bells that ever sung,
Are waiting for the master's hand
To fling their music o'er the land.Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...irty-two years since, up against the sun, 
Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, 
Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, 
And four lives paid for what the seven had won. 

They were the first by whom the deed was done, 
And when I look at thee, my mind takes flight 
To that day's tragic feat of manly might, 
As though, till then, of history thou hadst none. 

Yet ages ere men topped thee, late and soon 
Thou watch'dst each night the planets lift and lowe...Read more of this...

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