Famous Gloated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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chickens claw

...tains
dragged on the harsh stone floor
and the fitful crash re-echoed
of the limping thickset door
a distant churchbell gloated
a groan grew in the trees
a shudder of horror shook the coffin
the crone sank to her knees
the coffin lid was lifting slowly
a weird light glowed within
and a hand as thin as a chicken's claw
seized the crone and pulled her in...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


Frederick Douglass

...trong bow of his pow'r he strung
And sent his arrows to the very den
Where grim Oppression held his bloody place
And gloated o'er the mis'ries of a race.

And he was no soft-tongued apologist;
He spoke straight-forward, fearlessly uncowed;
The sunlight of his truth dispelled the mist
And set in bold relief each dark-hued cloud;
To sin and crime he gave their proper hue,
And hurled at evil what was evil's due.

Thro' good and ill report he cleaved his way
Right on...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

I Loved..

...eed. 
Nature I worshipped, whose fecundity 
Embraces every vision the most fair, 
Of perfect benediction. From a boy 
I gloated on existence. Earth to me 
Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there 
One trembling opportunity for joy....Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

Popcorn Glass Balls and Cranberries

...nce I loved a spider 
When I was born a fly, 
A velvet-footed spider 
With a gown of rainbow-dye. 
She ate my wings and gloated. 
She bound me with a hair. 

She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.


VII. CRICKETS ON A STRIKE

The foolish queen of fairyland
From her milk-white throne in a lily-bell,
Gave command to her cricket-band
To play for her when the dew-...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

The Mystery Of Mister Smith

...uddenly I felt that I
Must change my life or I would die.

A sign I saw: A ROOM TO LET.
It had a musty, dusty smell;
It gloated gloom, it growled and yet
Somehow I felt I liked it well.
I paid the rent a month ahead:
That night I smoked my pipe in bed.

From out my world I disappeared;
My walk and talk changed over-night.
I bought black glasses, grew a beard -
Abysmally I dropped from sight;
Old Tax Collector, Mister Smith
Became a memory, a myth.

I see my wife in widow's we...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


The Poet in the Nursery

...e twisting like a chain of daisies 
With great big splendid words a sentence long. 

I took the book to bed with me and gloated, 
Learning the lines that seemed to sound most grand; 
So soon the pretty emerald green was coated 
With jam and greasy marks from my hot hand, 
While round the nursery for long months there floated 
Wonderful words no one could understand....Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

The Raven

...This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
    On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
            She shall press, ah, nevermore!

    Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
    “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
    Respit...Read more of this...
by Poe, Edgar Allan

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly

...Once I loved a spider
When I was born a fly,
A velvet-footed spider
With a gown of rainbow-dye.
She ate my wings and gloated.
She bound me with a hair.
She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart....Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

uganda cry

...nda opened out in me
and what now lacerates its dreams

uganda (victim to a white
man's piece of chalk) now victim to
a gloated bitterness in black
your griefs have swamped the nile

and i lounge here (a long way home)
disturbed and pillowed by these words...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

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