Famous Heartiest Poems by Famous Poets

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

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To a Boy Whistling

by James Whitcomb Riley
 The smiling face of a happy boy
With its enchanted key
Is now unlocking in memory
My store of heartiest joy.

And my lost life again to-day,
In pleasant colors all aglow,
From rainbow tints, to pure white snow,
Is a panorama sliding away.

The whistled air of a simple tune
Eddies and whirls my thoughts around,
As fairy balloons of thistle-down
Sail through the air of June.

O happy boy...Read more of this...

In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory

by William Butler Yeats
 I

Now that we're almost settled in our house
I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us
Beside a fire of turf in th' ancient tower,
And having talked to some late hour
Climb up the narrow winding stair to bed:
Discoverers of forgotten truth
Or mere companions of my youth,
All, all are in my thoughts to-night being dead.

 II

Always we'd have the new friend...Read more of this...

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