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Famous Gushing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...recollection’s pow’r is giv’n—
If, in the vale of humble life,
The victim sad of fortune’s strife,
I, thro’ the tender-gushing tear,
Should recognise my master dear;
If friendless, low, we meet together,
Then, sir, your hand—my Friend and Brother!...Read more of this...



by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
..., 
Where ev'ry grace and ev'ry virtue dwells, 
And where the springs of knowledge and of thought 
In riv'lets clear and gushing streams flow down 
Attempt a strain? How sing in rapture high 
Or touch in vari'd melody the lyre 
The lyre so long neglected and each strain 
Unmeditated, and long since forgot? 
But yet constrain'd on this occasion sweet 
To this fam'd hall and this assembly fair 
With comely presence honouring the day, 
She fain would pay a tributary strain. 
...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...er cunning nest, 
 And bell-flowers bow their stems. 

 LIV 
With vinous syrup cedars spout; 
From rocks pure honey gushing out, 
 For ADORATION springs; 
All scenes of painting crowd the map 
Of nature; to the mermaid's pap 
 The scaled infant clings. 

 LV 
The spotted ounce and playsome cubs
Run rustling 'mongst the flow'ring shrubs, 
 And lizards feed the moss; 
For ADORATION beasts embark, 
While waves upholding halcyon's ark 
 No longer roar and toss. 

 LVI...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now, 
I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of
 the gushing showers I give now, 
I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so
 lovingly now....Read more of this...

by Poe, Edgar Allan
...arkle there.

Young flowers were whispering in melody
To happy flowers that night- and tree to tree;
Fountains were gushing music as they fell
In many a star-lit grove, or moon-lit dell;
Yet silence came upon material things-
Fair flowers, bright waterfalls and angel wings-
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang:

"'Neath the blue-bell or streamer-
Or tufted wild spray
That keeps, from the dreamer,
The moonbeam away-
Bright b...Read more of this...



by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...y name, 
.
The ice about thy heart melts as the snow 
.
On mountain heights, and in swift overflow 
.
Comes gushing from thy lips in sobs of shame. 
.
Thou makest full confession; and a gleam, 
.

As of the dawn on some dark forest cast, 
.

Seems on thy lifted forehead to increase; 
.

Lethe and Euno? -- the remembered dream 
.

And the forgotten sorrow -- bring at last 
.

That perfect pardon which is perfect peace.
V.Written ...Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...es rear 
Their leaves the earliest of the year  
And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom: 5 

And oft by yon blue gushing stream 
Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head  
And feed deep thought with many a dream  
And lingering pause and lightly tread; 
Fond wretch! as if her step disturb'd the dead! 10 

Away! we know that tears are vain  
That Death nor heeds nor hears distress: 
Will this unteach us to complain? 
Or make one mourner weep the less? 
And thou who...Read more of this...

by Pope, Alexander
...th a tear.
I tremble too, where'er my own I find,
Some dire misfortune follows close behind.
Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
There stern religion quench'd th' unwilling flame,
There died the best of passions, love and fame.

Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join
Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine.
Nor foes nor fortune t...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...ls and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use
Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,
On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks,
Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes,
That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers,
And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine,
The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet,
The glow...Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...too of the sky
Studded with stars; - it is no dream;
The wild horse swims the wilder stream! 
The bright broad river's gushing tide 
Sweeps, winding onward, far and wide,
And we are half-way, struggling o'er 
To yon unknown and silent shore.
The waters broke my hollow trance,
And with a temporary strength
My stiffened limbs were rebaptized.
My courser's broad breast proudly braves,
And dashes off the ascending waves,
And onward we advance
We reach the slippery shore ...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...ath, 
ILLUSTRIOUS WOLFE on earth's cold bosom lay; 
His anxious soldiers thronging round, 
Bath'd with their tears each gushing wound; 
As on his pallid lip the fleeting breath, 
In faint, and broken accents, stole away, 
Loud shouts of TRIUMPH fill'd the skies! 
To Heaven he rais'd his gratelul eyes; 
"'TIS VIC'TRY'S VOICE," the Hero cried! 
"I THANK THEE, BOUNTEOUS HEAVEN,"­then smiling, DIED! 

TARLETON, thy mind, above the POET's praise 
Asks not the labour'd task of flat...Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...hall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;
And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom:

And oft by yon blue gushing stream
Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head,
And feed deep thought with many a dream,
And lingering pause and lightly tread;
Fond wretch! as if her step disturbed the dead!

Away! ye know that tears are vain,
That death nor heeds nor hears distress:
Will this unteach us to complain?
Or make one mourner weep the less?
And thou -who tell'st me to forget...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...ked, 
Smote him into the midriff with a stone 
That beat out life; he fell;and, deadly pale, 
Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused. 
Much at that sight was Adam in his heart 
Dismayed, and thus in haste to the Angel cried. 
O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen 
To that meek man, who well had sacrificed; 
Is piety thus and pure devotion paid? 
To whom Michael thus, he also moved, replied. 
These two are brethren, Adam, and to come 
Out of thy loi...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...ing, desperate gulp of “flower” and “bower,” 
With “Sonnet to Matilda’s Eyebrow” quite, quite frantic;
With gushing, sentimental reading circles turn’d to ice or stone; 
With many a squeak, (in metre choice,) from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, London; 
As she, the illustrious Emigré, (having, it is true, in her day, although the same,
 changed,
 journey’d considerable,) 
Making directly for this rendezvous—vigorously clearing a path for herself—striding
 through...Read more of this...

by Turner Smith, Charlotte
...atre, and pageant pomp of Courts,
Are only worth regard; forgets all taste
For Nature's genuine beauty; in the lapse
Of gushing waters hears no soothing sound,
Nor listens with delight to sighing winds,
That, on their fragrant pinions, waft the notes
Of birds rejoicing in the trangled copse;
Nor gazes pleas'd on Ocean's silver breast,
While lightly o'er it sails the summer clouds
Reflected in the wave, that, hardly heard,
Flows on the yellow sands: so to his mind,
That long h...Read more of this...

by Schiller, Friedrich von
...p hastily,
The weak place of the foe explored,
And in his entrails plunged my sword,
Sinking it even to the hilt;
Black gushing forth, his blood was spilt.
Down sank he, burying in his fall
Me with his body's giant ball,
So that my senses quickly fled;
And when I woke with strength renewed,
The dragon in his blood lay dead,
While round me grouped my squires all stood."

The joyous shouts, so long suppressed,
Now burst from every hearer's breast,
Soon as the knight the...Read more of this...

by Scott, Sir Walter
...ing strife they stood
     And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood;
     No stinted draught, no scanty tide,
     The gushing flood the tartars dyed.
     Fierce Roderick felt the fatal drain,
     And showered his blows like wintry rain;
     And, as firm rock or castle-roof
     Against the winter shower is proof,
     The foe, invulnerable still,
     Foiled his wild rage by steady skill;
     Till, at advantage ta'en, his brand
     Forced Roderick's weapon from...Read more of this...

by Schiller, Friedrich von
...
As the links in a chain,
Again and again
Flies the bucket from hand to hand;
High in arches up-rushing
The engines are gushing,
And the flood, as a beast on the prey that it hounds
With a roar on the breast of the element bounds.
To the grain and the fruits,
Through the rafters and beams,
Through the barns and garners it crackles and streams!
As if they would rend up the earth from its roots,
Rush the flames to the sky
Giant-high;
And at length,
Wearied out and despairin...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...nted stem,
Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave
To each, but whoso did receive of them,
And taste, to him the gushing of the wave
Far far away did seem to mourn and rave
On alien shores; and if his fellow spake,
His voice was thin, as voices from the grave;
And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake,
And music in his ears his beating heart did make.

They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fath...Read more of this...

by Bronte, Charlotte
...espondency,
When sorrowful for home.
In vain I try; I cannot sing;
All feels so cold and dead;
No wild distress, no gushing spring
Of tears in anguish shed; 

But all the impatient gloom of one
Who waits a distant day,
When, some great task of suffering done,
Repose shall toil repay.
For youth departs, and pleasure flies,
And life consumes away,
And youth's rejoicing ardour dies
Beneath this drear delay; 

And Patience, weary with her yoke,
Is yielding to despair,
And...Read more of this...

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