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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by
Robert William Service
Birds have no consciousness of doom:
Yon thrush that serenades me daily
From scented snow of hawthorn bloom
Would not trill out his glee so gaily,
Could he foretell his songful breath
Would sadly soon be stilled in death.
Yon lambs that frolic on the lea
And incarnate the joy of life,
Would scarce disport them could they see
The shadow of the butcher's knife:
Oh Nature, with your...Read more of this...
by
Jennifer Reeser
Fold this, our daughter’s grave,
and seal 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...Read more of this...
by
Algernon Charles Swinburne
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine,
Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float,
Are they looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine,
These that we feel in the blood of our blushes...Read more of this...
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