Famous Grayness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Before Storm

...There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman,
The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman's cry,
And the deeps beyond the bar are moaning with evil presage
Of a storm that will leap from its lair in that dour north-eastern sky. 

Slowly the pale mists rise, like ghosts of the sea, in the offing,
Creeping all wan and chilly by headland and s...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud


Leaning Over Eros

...t to plummet from the lifted candle.
Should closeness be so vulnerable to fact?

The wrinkles in her gown – a troubling grayness
amid chaste white – I see as always moved
by some upended breeze against their terrace;
his face I see as turned, not wholly proved,

his faith in her confirmed in that he sleeps.
She scorches one long finger on the flame.
It all takes place unerringly and fluid
as Psyche’s first defeat of Cupid’s aim.

And you are...somewhere. Never mind my grief.
...Read more of this...
by Reeser, Jennifer

Song of the Moon

...The moonlight breaks upon the city's domes,
And falls along cemented steel and stone,
Upon the grayness of a million homes,
Lugubrious in unchanging monotone. 
Upon the clothes behind the tenement,
That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines,
Linking each flat to each indifferent,
Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

There is no magic from your presence here,
Ho, moon, sad moon, tuck up your trailing robe,
Whose silver seems antique and s...Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude

Sonnet 05 - I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

...et. Behold and see
What a great heap of grief lay hid in me,
And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn
Through the ashen grayness. If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to darkness utterly,
It might be well perhaps. But if instead
Thou wait beside me for the wind to blow
The gray dust up, . . . those laurels on thine head,
O my Beloved, will not shield thee so,
That none of all the fires shall scorch and shred
The hair beneath. Stand farther off then! go....Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The Drunkards in the Street

...
I say my prayers by my white bed to-night, 
With the arms of God about me, with the angels singing, singing 
Until the grayness of my soul grows white....Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel


The Thin People

...her knife had pared

The moon to a rind of little light.
Now the thin people do not obliterate

Themselves as the dawn
Grayness blues, reddens, and the outline

Of the world comes clear and fills with color.
They persist in the sunlit room: the wallpaper

Frieze of cabbage-roses and cornflowers pales
Under their thin-lipped smiles,

Their withering kingship.
How they prop each other up!

We own no wilderness rich and deep enough
For stronghold against their stiff

Battalions...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

The Town Down by the River

...ans, 
Plodding forward from afar; 
Forward now into the darkness 
Where the men before us are; 
Forward, onward, out of grayness, 
To the light that shone so far."

IV

Said the Watcher by the Way 
To some aged ones who lingered, 
To the shrunken, the claw-fingered, 
"So you come for me to-day."-- 
"Yes, to give you warning; 
You are old," one said; 
"You have hairs on your head, 
Fit for laurel, not for scorning.

"From the first of early morning 
We have toiled along to fin...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Transparent Man

...enty-twenty,
Or used to be, but of course I can't unravel
The tousled snarl of intersecting limbs,
That mackled, cinder grayness. It's a riddle
Beyond the eye's solution. Impenetrable.
If there is order in all that anarchy
Of granite mezzotint, that wilderness,
It takes a better eye than mine to see it.
It set me on to wondering how to deal
With such a thickness of particulars,
Deal with it faithfully, you understand,
Without blurring the issue. Of course I know
That within a...Read more of this...
by Hecht, Anthony

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