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Famous Iciness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...rone;
She's faultless in form and in feature,
But oh, she is cold as a stone.
And so from her presence I hurry,
Her iciness quick to forget
In sensuous joy as I bury
My face in the breast of Babette.

She's only a flower of the pavement;
With Paris and Spring in her eyes;
Yet I who foresaw what the grave meant
Of passion behold with surprise,
When she greets me as gay as a linnet,
Afar from life's fever and fret
I'm twenty years younger the minute
I enter the room of ...Read more of this...



by Byron, George (Lord)
...and came, 
The lip of ashes, and the cheek of flame; 
And o'er his brow the dampening heart-drops threw 
The sickening iciness of that cold dew 
That rises as the busy bosom sinks 
With heavy thoughts from which reflection shrinks. 
Yes — there be things which we must dream and dare 
And execute ere thought be half aware: 
Whate'er might Kaled's be, it was enow 
To seal his lip, but agonise his brow. 
He gazed on Ezzelin till Lara cast 
That sidelong smile upon on th...Read more of this...

by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...o order smile. 

It's a sublte combination of a sneer and a caress, 
With a dash of warmth thrown in to relieve its iciness, 
And she greets you when she meets you with that look as if a file 
Had been used to fix and fashion out the made to order smile. 

I confess that I'm eccentric and am not a woman's man, 
For they seem to be constructed on the bunko fakir plan, 
And it somehow sets me thinking that her heart is full of guile 
When a woman looks up at me with a m...Read more of this...

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