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Famous Hived Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...use racks —
Of Hawthorn-honey that of almond smacks:
The luscious Lime-tree-honey, green as jade:
Pale Willow-honey, hived by the first rover:
That delicate honey culled
From Apple-blossom, that of sunlight tastes:
And sunlight-coloured honey of the Clover.
Then, when the late year wastes,
When night falls early and the noon is dulled
And the last warm days are over,
Unlock the store and to your table bring
Essence of every blossom of the spring.
And if, when wind...Read more of this...
by Armstrong, Martin



...Your hands easy
weight, teasing the bees
hived in my hair, your smile at the
slope of my cheek. On the
occasion, you press
above me, glowing, spouting
readiness, mystery rapes
my reason

When you have withdrawn
your self and the magic, when
only the smell of your
love lingers between
my breasts, then, only
then, can I greedily consume
your presence....Read more of this...
by Angelou, Maya
...n can spin into a blanket against the winter. 
seventy years of stories he clutches round his bones, 
seventy years are hived in him like old honey. 

During that year, Charleville to the Hunter, 
nineteen-one it was, and the drought beginning; 
sixty head left at the McIntyre, the mud round them 
hardened like iron; and the yellow boy died 
in the sulky ahead with the gear, but the horse went on, 
stopped at Sandy Camp and waited in the evening. 
It was the flies we seen fir...Read more of this...
by Wright, Judith
...eir black ball,
A flying hedgehog, all prickles.
The man with gray hands stands under the honeycomb
Of their dream, the hived station
Where trains, faithful to their steel arcs,

Leave and arrive, and there is no end to the country.
Pom! Pom! They fall
Dismembered, to a tod of ivy.
So much for the charioteers, the outriders, the Grand Army!
A red tatter, Napoleon!

The last badge of victory.
The swarm is knocked into a cocked straw hat.
Elba, Elba, bleb on the sea!
The white ...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

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