Famous Glinted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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102. To a Mountain Daisy

...he, to greet
 The purpling east.


Cauld blew the bitter-biting north
Upon thy early, humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
 Amid the storm,
Scarce rear’d above the parent-earth
 Thy tender form.


The flaunting flow’rs our gardens yield,
High shelt’ring woods and wa’s maun shield;
But thou, beneath the random bield
 O’ clod or stane,
Adorns the histie stibble field,
 Unseen, alane.


There, in thy scanty mantle clad,
Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread,
Thou lifts thy...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


214. Song—How Long and Dreary is the Night

...etween us lie,
 How can I be but eerie!


How slow ye move, ye heavy hours,
 As ye were wae and weary!
It was na sae ye glinted by,
 When I was wi’ my dearie!
It was na sae ye glinted by,
 When I was wi’ my dearie!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

485. Song—How lang and dreary is the night

...How can I be but eerie?
 For oh, &c.


How slow ye move, ye heavy hours;
 The joyless day how dreary:
It was na sae ye glinted by,
 When I was wi’ my Dearie!
 For oh, &c....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Working Party

...' 
When squeezing past some men from the front-line: 
White faces peered, puffing a point of red; 
Candles and braziers glinted through the chinks 
And curtain-flaps of dug-outs; then the gloom 
Swallowed his sense of sight; he stooped and swore 
Because a sagging wire had caught his neck.

A flare went up; the shining whiteness spread 
And flickered upward, showing nimble rats 
And mounds of glimmering sand-bags, bleached with rain; 
Then the slow silver moment died in dark....Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

Clancy Of The Mounted Police

....

Colder it grew and colder, till the last heat left the earth,
 And there in the great stark stillness the bale fires glinted and gleamed,
And the Wild all around exulted and shook with a devilish mirth,
 And life was far and forgotten, the ghost of a joy once dreamed.

Death! And one who defied it, a man of the Mounted Police;
 Fought it there to a standstill long after hope was gone;
Grinned through his bitter anguish, fought without let or cease,
 Suffering, straining, s...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Dining-Room Tea

...length
Human eyes grew, mortal strength 
Wearied; and Time began to creep. 
Change closed about me like a sleep. 
Light glinted on the eyes I loved. 
The cup was filled. The bodies moved.
The drifting petal came to ground. 
The laughter chimed its perfect round. 
The broken syllable was ended. 
And I, so certain and so friended, 
How could I cloud, or how distress,
The heaven of your unconsciousness? 
Or shake at Time’s sufficient spell, 
Stammering of lights unutterable? 
Th...Read more of this...
by Brooke, Rupert

In the Highlands

...he low green meadows 
 Bright with sward; 
And when even dies, the million-tinted, 
And the night has come, and planets glinted, 
 Lo, the valley hollow 
 Lamp-bestarr'd! 

O to dream, O to awake and wander 
There, and with delight to take and render, 
 Through the trance of silence, 
 Quiet breath! 
Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses, 
Only the mightier movement sounds and passes; 
 Only winds and rivers, 
 Life and death....Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Kotri, by the River

...ce, but not again.

   She lay and laughed and listened beside the water's edge.
   The glancing river glistened and glinted through the sedge.
   Green parrots flew above her and, as the daylight died,
   Her young arms drew her lover more closely to her side.

   Oh days so warm and golden! oh nights so cool and still!
   When Love would not be holden, and Pleasure had his will.
   Days, when in after leisure, content to rest we lay,
   Nights, when her lips' soft...Read more of this...
by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory

South Wind

...South Wind, this May-day morning,— 
With larks aloft, or skimming with the swallow, 
Or with blackbirds in a green, sun-glinted thicket? 

Oh, I heard you like a tyrant in the valley; 
Your ruffian haste shook the young, blossoming orchards;
You clapped rude hands, hallooing round the chimney, 
And white your pennons streamed along the river. 

You have robbed the bee, South Wind, in your adventure, 
Blustering with gentle flowers; but I forgave you 
When you stole to me shyl...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

The Lady of the Lake

...
     The next but swept a lone hill-side
     Where heath and fern were waving wide:
     The sun's last glance was glinted back
     From spear and glaive, from targe and jack,—
     The next, all unreflected, shone
     On bracken green and cold gray stone.
     XI.

     Fitz-James looked round,—yet scarce believed
     The witness that his sight received;
     Such apparition well might seem
     Delusion of a dreadful dream.
     Sir Roderick in suspense he...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Trout

...ere?
Do you hunt for fishes' eggs,
Or watch tadpoles grow their legs?
Do the little trouts have school
In some deep sun-glinted pool,
And in recess play at tag
Round that bed of purple flag?
I have tried so hard to catch you,
Hours and hours I've sat to watch you;
But you never will come out,
Naughty little speckled trout!...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Working Party

...' 
When squeezing past some men from the front-line: 
White faces peered, puffing a point of red; 
Candles and braziers glinted through the chinks 
And curtain-flaps of dug-outs; then the gloom 
Swallowed his sense of sight; he stooped and swore 
Because a sagging wire had caught his neck.

A flare went up; the shining whiteness spread 
And flickered upward, showing nimble rats 
And mounds of glimmering sand-bags, bleached with rain; 
Then the slow silver moment died in dark....Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

Tinuviel

...far
Where leaves of years were thickly strewn,
By light of moon and ray of star
In frosty heavens shivering.
Her mantle glinted in the moon,
As on a hill-top high and far
She danced, and at her feet was strewn
A mist of silver quivering.

When winter passed, she came again,
And her song released the sudden spring,
Like rising lark, and falling rain,
And melting water bubbling.
He saw the elven-flowers spring
About her feet, and healed again,
He longed by her to dance and sing...Read more of this...
by Tolkien, J R R

To A Mountain Daisy

...ithe, to greet
The purpling east.

Cauld blew the bitter-biting north
Upon thy early, humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
Amid the storm,
Scarce reared above the parent-earth
Thy tender form.

The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield,
High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield;
But thou, beneath the random bield
O' clod or stane,
Adorns the histie stibble-field,
Unseen, alane.

There, in thy scanty mantle clad,
Thy snawy bosom sunward spread,
Thou lifts thy unassum...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

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