Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Infusing Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

by Killigrew, Anne
...ength, and Hearers also tire. 
 Al. O Heaven-taught Bard ! to Ages couldst prolong
Thy Soul-instructing, Health-infusing Song, 
I with unweary'd Appetite could hear, 
And wish my Senses were turn'd all to Ear. 
 Alcim. Old Man, thy frosty Precepts well betray
Thy Blood is cold, and that thy Head is grey: 
Who past the Pleasure Love and Youth can give, 
To spoyl't in others, now dost only live. 
Wouldst thou, indeed, if so thou couldst perswade, 
The Fair, ...Read more of this...



by Sidney, Sir Philip
...eake, when they their Muses entertaine,
Of hopes begot by feare, of wot not what desires,
Of force of heau'nly beames infusing hellish paine,
Of liuing deaths, dere wounds, faire storms, and freesing fires:
Some one his song in Ioue and Ioues strange tales attires,
Bordred with buls and swans, powdred with golden raine:
Another, humbler wit, to shepherds pipe retires,
Yet hiding royall bloud full oft in rurall vaine.
To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest stile affo...Read more of this...

by Carman, Bliss
...ne, 
Where slowly the divine 
Evinces energy, puts forth control; 
See mighty love alone 
Transmuting stock and stone, 
Infusing being, helping sense and soul. 

And what is energy, 
In-working, which bids be 
The starry pageant and the life of earth? 
What is the genesis 
Of every joy and bliss, 
Each action dared, each beauty brought to birth? 

What hangs the sun on high? 
What swells the growing rye? 
What bids the loons cry on the Northern lake? 
What stirs in swamp ...Read more of this...

by Sidney, Sir Philip
...s speak when they their Muses entertain, 
Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires: 
Of force of heav'nly beams, infusing hellish pain: 
Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires. 

Some one his song in Jove, and Jove's strange tales attires, 
Broidered with bulls and swans, powdered with golden rain; 
Another humbler wit to shepherd's pipe retires, 
Yet hiding royal blood full oft in rural vein. 

To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest style...Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...rs the horizon wall  
And with softness touching all  
Tints the human countenance 
With a color of romance 25 
And infusing subtle heats  
Turns the sod to violets  
Thou in sunny solitudes  
Rover of the underwoods  
The green silence dost displace 30 
With thy mellow breezy bass. 

Hot midsummer's petted crone  
Sweet to me thy drowsy tone 
Tells of countless sunny hours  
Long days and solid banks of flowers; 35 
Of gulfs of sweetness without bound 
In...Read more of this...



by Shakespeare, William
...he world's poor people are amazed
At apparitions, signs, and prodigies,
Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed,
Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;
So she at these sad signs draws up her breath
And sighing it again, exclaims on Death.

"Hard-favour'd tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean,
Hateful divorce of love,"--thus chides she Death,--
"Grim-grinning ghost, earth's worm, what dost thou mean
To stifle beauty and to steal his breath,
Who when he liv'd, his breath and b...Read more of this...

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Infusing poems.


Book: Shattered Sighs