Famous Glooming Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As the Time Draws Nigh

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AS the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud, 
A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. 

I shall go forth, 
I shall traverse The States awhile—but I cannot tell whither or how long; 
Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my voice will suddenly cease.

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O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this? 
Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?... And yet ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Audley Court

...ut the leaf
Twilights of airy silver, till we reach’d
The limit of the hills; and as we sank
From rock to rock upon the glooming quay,
The town was hush’d beneath us: lower down
The bay was oily calm; the harbour-buoy,
Sole star of phosphorescence in the calm,
With one green sparkle ever and anon
Dipt by itself, and we were glad at heart....Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Beowulf (Modern English)

...n the sea together for five nights,
until the current drove us apart. The welling waters,
the coldest of weather, the glooming night,
and the north wind battle-grim turned against us.
The waves were cruel, and the spirits of sea-monsters
were stirred up. There my body-sark gave me
some help against their hatred, hardened and hand-linked,
the woven war-dress laying on my breast,
fretted with gold. A speckled harmer, hostile,
had me fast, tore me to the sea floor,
gri...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Enoch Arden

...lanes,
The peacock-yewtree and the lonely Hall,
The horse he drove, the boat he sold, the chill
November dawns and dewy-glooming downs,
The gentle shower, the smell of dying leaves,
And the low moan of leaden-color'd seas. 

Once likewise, in the ringing of his ears,
Tho' faintly, merrily--far and far away--
He heard the pealing of his parish bells;
Then, tho' he knew not wherefore, started up
Shuddering, and when the beauteous hateful isle
Return'd upon him, had not his poor...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Gareth And Lynette

...ere silent seeing, pitched 
Beside the Castle Perilous on flat field, 
A huge pavilion like a mountain peak 
Sunder the glooming crimson on the marge, 
Black, with black banner, and a long black horn 
Beside it hanging; which Sir Gareth graspt, 
And so, before the two could hinder him, 
Sent all his heart and breath through all the horn. 
Echoed the walls; a light twinkled; anon 
Came lights and lights, and once again he blew; 
Whereon were hollow tramplings up and down 
And ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt)

...Table is no more."


Then fell thick rain, plume droopt and mantle clung,
And pettish cries awoke, and the wan day
Went glooming down in wet and weariness:
But under her black brows a swarthy one
Laugh'd shrilly, crying, "Praise the patient saints,
Our one white day of Innocence hath past,
Tho' somewhat draggled at the skirt. So be it.
The snowdrop only, flowering thro' the year,
Would make the world as blank as Winter-tide.
Come--let us gladden their sad eyes, our Queen's
An...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Iii

...ought but sorrow's room.
All—all was dim within that bower,
What time the sun divorced the day;
And all the shadows, glooming gray,
Proclaimed the sadness of the hour.
She could not speak—no word was needed;
Her look, half strength and half despair,
Told me I had not vainly pleaded,
That she would not ignore my prayer.
And so she turned and left me there,
And as she went, so passed my bliss;
[Pg 38]She loved me, I ...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Just Whistle A Bit

...refuse to shine:
And a gleam that mocks the starlight clear
Within you glows benign.
Till the dearth of light in the glooming skies
Is lost to the sight of your soul-lit eyes.
What matters the absence of moon or star?
The light within is the best by far.
Just whistle a bit, if there 's work to do,
With the mind or in the soil.
And your note will turn out a talisman true
To exorcise grim Toil.
It will lighten your burden and make you feel
That there 's nothing like...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Mariana

...ing of the bats, 
When thickest dark did trance the sky, 
She drew her casement-curtain by, 
And glanced athwart the glooming flats. 
She only said, "My life is dreary, 
He cometh not," she said; 
She said, "I am aweary, aweary, 
I would that I were dead!" 

Upon the middle of the night, 
Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: 
The cock sung out an hour ere light: 
From the dark fen the oxen's low 
Came to her: without hope of change, 
In sleep she seem'd to walk...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

My Little March Girl

...girl.

What self-possession looks out of her eyes! 
What are the wild winds, and what are the skies, 
Frowning and glooming when, brimming with life, 
Cometh the little maid ripe for the strife? 
Ah! Wind, and bah! Wind, what might have you now? 
What can you do with that innocent brow? 
Blow, Wind, and grow, Wind, and eddy and swirl, 
But bring to me, Wind,—my little March girl....Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Pelleas And Ettarre

...his good horse 
To a tree, cast himself down; and as he lay 
At random looking over the brown earth 
Through that green-glooming twilight of the grove, 
It seemed to Pelleas that the fern without 
Burnt as a living fire of emeralds, 
So that his eyes were dazzled looking at it. 
Then o'er it crost the dimness of a cloud 
Floating, and once the shadow of a bird 
Flying, and then a fawn; and his eyes closed. 
And since he loved all maidens, but no maid 
In special, half-awake h...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Sonnet LXII

...let vs eschew,
and fly the faults with which we did offend.
Then shall the new yeares ioy forth freshly send,
into the glooming world his gladsome ray:
and all these stormes which now his beauty blend,
shall turne to caulmes and tymely cleare away.
So likewise loue cheare you your heauy spright,
and chaunge old yeares annoy to new delight....Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

The Black Virgin

...e thee in the high vitrailles, 
On Cornish crags take for salute of swords 
O'er peacock seas the far salute of sails, 
Glooming in bronze or gay in painted wood, 
A great doll given when the child is good, 
Save that She gave the Child who gave the doll, 
In whom all dolls are dreams of motherhood. 

I have found thee like a little shepherdess 
Gay with green ribbons; and passed on to find 
Michael called Angel hew the Mother of God 
Like one who fills a mountain with a mind...Read more of this...
by Chesterton, G K

The Hound of Heaven

...hen round the half-glimpse d turrets, slowly wash again.
But not 'ere Him who summoneth
I first have seen, enwound
With glooming robes purpureal; Cypress crowned.
His name I know, and what his trumpet saith.
Whether Man's Heart or Life it be that yield thee harvest,
Must thy harvest fields be dunged with rotten death ?

Now of that long pursuit,
Comes at hand the bruit.
That Voice is round me like a bursting Sea:
And is thy Earth so marred,
Shattered in shard on shard?
Lo, al...Read more of this...
by Thompson, Francis

The Last Tournament

...ble is no more.' 

Then fell thick rain, plume droopt and mantle clung, 
And pettish cries awoke, and the wan day 
Went glooming down in wet and weariness: 
But under her black brows a swarthy one 
Laughed shrilly, crying, `Praise the patient saints, 
Our one white day of Innocence hath past, 
Though somewhat draggled at the skirt. So be it. 
The snowdrop only, flowering through the year, 
Would make the world as blank as Winter-tide. 
Come--let us gladden their sad eyes, our...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Three Voices

...d a carol fresh and free,
He laughed aloud for very glee:
There came a breeze from off the sea: 

It passed athwart the glooming flat -
It fanned his forehead as he sat -
It lightly bore away his hat, 

All to the feet of one who stood
Like maid enchanted in a wood,
Frowning as darkly as she could. 

With huge umbrella, lank and brown,
Unerringly she pinned it down,
Right through the centre of the crown. 

Then, with an aspect cold and grim,
Regardless of its battered rim,
Sh...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

Trees Against The Sky

...thing the peace of life,
Ease after toil and strife . . .
Hark to their silver sigh!
Olives against the sky.

Cypresses glooming the sky,
Stark at the end of the road;
Failing and faint am I,
Lief to be eased of my load;
There where the stones peer white
in the last of the silvery light,
Quiet and cold I'll lie -
Cypresses etching the sky.

Trees, trees against the sky -
O I have loved them well!
There are pleasures you cannot buy,
Treasurers you cannot sell,
And not the smal...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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