Famous Glowering Poems by Famous Poets

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

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An Island

...rievably astray,
Has ruined the last chorus of a play 
That will, so he avers, be played again some day; 
And you, poor glowering ghost, 
Have staggered under laurel here to boast 
Above me, dying, while you lean
In triumph awkward and unclean, 
About some words of his that you have read? 
Thing, do I not know them all? 
He tells me how the storied leaves that fall 
Are tramped on, being dead?
They are sometimes: with a storm foul enough 
They are seized alive and they are bl...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Beowulf (Modern English)

...w Lord God—
indeed nor could they praise the Helmet of Heaven,
the Sovereign of Glory. Woe to those who must
through glowering malice shove down their souls
into the fathoming fire, who must not expect comfort
or one jot of change! It will be well for those
who are allowed after their death-day to seek the Lord
and beg for protection in the Father’s embrace! (ll. 175-88)

 

III.

And so Halfdane’s son perpetually boiled
over these troubled times, nor could the ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law

...th suspicion, rumor, fantasy,
crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge
of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

Nervy, glowering, your daughter
wipes the teaspoons, grows another way.

 2

Banging the coffee-pot into the sink
she hears the angels chiding, and looks out
past the raked gardens to the sloppy sky.
Only a week since They said: Have no patience.

The next time it was: Be insatiable.
Then: Save yourself; others you cannot save.
Sometimes she's let the tapstream sca...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne

The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race

...and the frown
Of the witch-men lean, and laughed them down.
(O rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile.)

The cake-walk royalty then began
To walk for a cake that was tall as a man
To the tune of "Boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,"
While the witch-men laughed, with a sinister air,
With a touch of ***** dialect, and as rapidly as possible toward the end.
And sang with the scalawags prancing there: --
"Walk with care, walk with care,
Or Mumbo-Ju...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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