Famous Golden Touch Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Silent Steps

by Rabindranath Tagore
 Have you not heard his silent steps? 
He comes, comes, ever comes. 

Every moment and every age, 
every day and every night he comes, comes, ever comes. 

Many a song have I sung in many a mood of mind, 
but all their notes have always proclaimed, 
`He comes, comes, ever comes.' 

In the fragrant days of sunny April through...Read more of this...

Ill clutch -- and clutch

by Emily Dickinson
 I'll clutch -- and clutch --
Next -- One -- Might be the golden touch --
Could take it --
Diamonds -- Wait --
I'm diving -- just a little late --
But stars -- go slow -- for night --

I'll string you -- in fine Necklace --
Tiaras -- make -- of some --
Wear you on Hem --
Loop up a Countess -- with you...Read more of this...

Contentment

by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 "Man wants but little here below."



LITTLE I ask; my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone,
(A very plain brown stone will do,)
That I may call my own;
And close at hand is such a one,
In yonder street that fronts the sun.

Plain food is quite enough for me;
Three courses are as good as ten;--
If Nature can subsist on three,
Thank...Read more of this...

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