Famous Hardens Poems by Famous Poets

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

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110. Epistle to a Young Friend

...illicit rove,
 Tho’ naething should divulge it:
I waive the quantum o’ the sin,
 The hazard of concealing;
But, Och! it hardens a’ within,
 And petrifies the feeling!


To catch dame Fortune’s golden smile,
 Assiduous wait upon her;
And gather gear by ev’ry wile
 That’s justified by honour;
Not for to hide it in a hedge,
 Nor for a train attendant;
But for the glorious privilege
 Of being independent.


The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip,
 To haud the wretch in order;
But wh...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Before

...n is posed,
before I am transposed.
Before the weeds fill the gardens,
before there are no pardons,
before the concrete hardens.
Before all the flute-holes are covered,
beore things are locked in then cupboard,
before the rules are discovered.
Before the conclusion is planned,
before God closes his hand,
before we have nowhere to stand....Read more of this...
by Amichai, Yehuda

Narcissus

...lowing their example,
nature re-enters herself;
contemplating its own sap, the flower
becomes too soft, and the boulder hardens...

It's the return of all desire that enters
toward all life embracing itself from afar...
Where does it fall? Under the dwindling
surface, does it hope to renew a center?...Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria

Shine Perishing Republic

...garity, heavily thickening 
 to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
 mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots 
 to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and deca-
 dence; and home to the mother.

You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stub-
 bornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less tha...Read more of this...
by Jeffers, Robinson

Sonnet 54

...ith constant eye,
Delights not in my merth nor rues my smart:
But when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart.
What then can move her? if nor merth nor mone,
She is no woman, but a senceless stone....Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


Sonnet LIIII

...h constant eye,
delights not in my merth nor rues my smart:
but when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry
she laughes, and hardens euermore her hart.
What then can moue her? if nor merth nor mone,
she is no woman, but a sencelesse stone....Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

The Town Down by the River

...need you.

"And are ravens there to feed you 
In the Town down the River, 
Where the gift appalls the giver 
And youth hardens day by day? 
O you brave and you unshaken, 
Are you truly on your way? 
And are sirens in the River, 
That you come so far to-day?"

"You are old and we have listened," 
Said the voice of one who halted; 
"You are sage and self-exalted, 
But your way is not our way. 
You that cannot aid us 
Give us words to eat. 
Be assured that they are sweet, 
And ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The White Bees

...
May you hear the humming of the white bee's wing
Murmur o'er the meadow, ere the night bells call. 

Wait till winter hardens in the cold grey sky,
Wait till leaves are fallen and the brooks all freeze,
Then above the gardens where the dead flowers lie,
Swarm the merry millions of the wild white bees. 


II 

Out of the high-built airy hive,
Deep in the clouds that veil the sun, 
Look how the first of the swarm arrive; 
Timidly venturing, one by one,
Down through the tranqu...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

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