Famous Grimness Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Grimness poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous grimness poems. These examples illustrate what a famous grimness poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ith your loving ruth,
You spare them knowledge of Dark Truth.
To sad humanity alone,
(Creation's triumph ultimate)
The grimness of the grave is known,
The dusty destiny await . . . .
Oh bird and beast, with joy, elance
Effulgently your ingorance!
Oh man, previsioning the hearse,
With fortitude accept your curse!...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...eal it with your kiss.
For all the love I gave,
you owe me this.
Inside of me, she had
your lips and tongue, my air
of grimness, thin and sad,
with your thick hair.
Inside of you, I trust,
she was a simple mesh
of need and paper, lust –
potential flesh.
And there was such pure song
in life begun from you,
I held the dead too long,
as women do,
but leaving like you did,
when only I could feel
the biding, body, bid
of what was real,
she’s put out with the cur,
the garbage,...Read more of this...
by
Reeser, Jennifer
...of a balm-breathing baby,
As they grope through the grave-yard of creeds, under skies growing green at a groan for the grimness of God.
Blank is the book of his bounty beholden of old, and its binding is blacker than bluer:
Out of blue into black is the scheme of the skies, and their dews are the wine of the bloodshed of things;
Till the darkling desire of delight shall be free as a fawn that is freed from the fangs that pursue her,
Till the heart-beats of hell shall be hush...Read more of this...
by
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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