Famous Informing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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11. Song—Here's to thy health my bonie lass

...ty pink,
 But I can live without thee:
I vow and swear I dinna care,
 How lang ye look about ye.


Thou’rt aye sae free informing me,
 Thou hast nae mind to marry;
I’ll be as free informing thee,
 Nae time hae I to tarry:
I ken thy frien’s try ilka means
 Frae wedlock to delay thee;
Depending on some higher chance,
 But fortune may betray thee.


I ken they scorn my low estate,
 But that does never grieve me;
For I’m as free as any he;
 Sma’ siller will relieve me.
I’ll count...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


A Door just opened on a street --

...Company.

The Door as instant shut -- And I --
I -- lost -- was passing by --
Lost doubly -- but by contrast -- most --
Informing -- misery --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

An Essay On Criticism

...Art from that Fund each just Supply provides,
Works without Show, and without Pomp presides:
In some fair Body thus th' informing Soul
With Spirits feeds, with Vigour fills the whole,
Each Motion guides, and ev'ry Nerve sustains;
It self unseen, but in th' Effects, remains.
Some, to whom Heav'n in Wit has been profuse.
Want as much more, to turn it to its use,
For Wit and Judgment often are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's Aid, like Man and Wife.
'Tis more to guide than spu...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

...of prostitutes; 
Renascent with grossest Nature, or among animals; 
Of that—of them, and what goes with them, my poems informing; 
Of the smell of apples and lemons—of the pairing of birds, 
Of the wet of woods—of the lapping of waves,
Of the mad pushes of waves upon the land—I them chanting; 
The overture lightly sounding—the strain anticipating; 
The welcome nearness—the sight of the perfect body; 
The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Paradise Lost: Book 12

...oud trumpets' sound, 
Ordain them laws; part, such as appertain 
To civil justice; part, religious rites 
Of sacrifice; informing them, by types 
And shadows, of that destined Seed to bruise 
The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve 
Mankind's deliverance. But the voice of God 
To mortal ear is dreadful: They beseech 
That Moses might report to them his will, 
And terrour cease; he grants what they besought, 
Instructed that to God is no access 
Without Mediator, whose hig...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


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