Famous Hieroglyphic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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115. The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge Tarbolton

...nd spent the cheerful, festive night;
Oft, honour’d with supreme command,
 Presided o’er the sons of light:
And by that hieroglyphic bright,
 Which none but Craftsmen ever saw
Strong Mem’ry on my heart shall write
 Those happy scenes, when far awa.


May Freedom, Harmony, and Love,
 Unite you in the grand Design,
Beneath th’ Omniscient Eye above,
 The glorious Architect Divine,
That you may keep th’ unerring line,
 Still rising by the plummet’s law,
Till Order bright complete...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


A poem on divine revelation

...the dawn of this fair morn 
And boasts her rites mysterious no more; 
Her hidden learning wrapt in symbols strange 
Of hieroglyphic character, engrav'd 
On marble pillar, or the mountain rock, 
Or pyramid enduring many an age. 
She now receives asserted and explain'd 
That holy law, which on mount Sinai writ 
By God's own finger, and to Moses giv'n, 
And to the chosen seed, a rule of life. 
And strict obedience due; but now once more 
Grav'd on the living tablet of the heart...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry

Song of Myself

...Whose? 

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. 

Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic; 
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, 
Growing among black folks as among white;
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the
 same. 

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. 

Tenderly will I use you, curling grass; 
It may be you transpire from the breasts ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Haunted House

...ns and fractures on the wall,
Assuming features solemn and terrific,
Hinted some tragedy of that old hall,
Locked up in hieroglyphic.

Some tale that might, perchance, have solved the doubt,
Wherefore, among those flags so dull and livid,
The banner of the bloody hand shone out
So ominously vivid.

Some key to that inscrutable appeal
Which made the very frame of Nature quiver,
And every thrilling nerve and fiber feel
So ague-like a shiver.

For over all there hung a cloud of ...Read more of this...
by Hood, Thomas

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