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Famous Hawthorns Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...st wayward Fortune’s adverse hand
 For ever, ever keep me here!


How lovely, Nith, thy fruitful vales,
 Where bounding hawthorns gaily bloom;
And sweetly spread thy sloping dales,
 Where lambkins wanton through the broom.
Tho’ wandering now must be my doom,
 Far from thy bonie banks and braes,
May there my latest hours consume,
 Amang the friends of early days!...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...!


In gowany glens thy burnie strays,
Where bonie lasses bleach their claes,
Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes,
 Wi’ hawthorns gray,
Where blackbirds join the shepherd’s lays,
 At close o’ day.


Thy rural loves are Nature’s sel’;
Nae bombast spates o’ nonsense swell;
Nae snap conceits, but that sweet spell
 O’ witchin love,
That charm that can the strongest quell,
 The sternest move....Read more of this...

by Gregory, Rg
...as the landscape falls away
the hawthorn in its gnarly fashion
is content to stand alone
berries (the very tint of passion)
that birds are wont to feed upon
bloodstain the shortened day

a stubborn tree that speaks
of crusty age - its thorns alert
to any too-spirited invasion
who comes (it seems to say) gets hurt 
not those birds with juicy beaks
insects s...Read more of this...

by Hughes, Ted
...h your eyes
As I would see it again through your children's eyes.
Through your eyes it was foreign.
Plain hedge hawthorns were peculiar aliens,
A mystery of peculiar lore and doings.
Anything wild, on legs, in your eyes
Emerged at a point of exclamation
As if it had appeared to dinner guests
In the middle of the table. Common mallards
Were artefacts of some unearthliness,
Their wooings were a hypnagogic film
Unreeled by the river. Impossible
To comprehend ...Read more of this...

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