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Famous Inhabits Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Murray, Les
...The lemon sunlight poured out far between things
inhabits a coolness. Mosquitoes have subsided,
flies are for later heat.
Every tree's an auburn giant with a dazzled face
and the back of its head to an infinite dusk road.
Twilights broaden away from our feet too
as rabbits bounce home up defiles in the grass.
Everything widens with distance, in this perspective.
The dog's paws, trotting...Read more of this...



by Petrarch, Francesco
...our thoughtTo picture heaven and happiness above!Her viewless form inhabits paradise,Divested of that veil,Which shadow'd while below her bloom of life,Once more to put it on,And never then to cast it off again;When so much more divine,And glorious render'd, 'twill by us...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...ain rushing 
 Will drive me wild! 
 
 "You stare as though you hardly knew my lady— 
 Sabine's her name! 
 Her dam inhabits yonder cavern shady, 
 A witch of shame, 
 Who shrieks o' nights upon the Haunted Tower, 
 With horrors piled— 
 Oh! this chill wind, etc. 
 
 "Sing on and leap—enjoying all the favors 
 Good heaven sends; 
 She, too, was young—her lips had peachy savors 
 With honey blends; 
 Give to that hag—not always old—a penny, 
 Though crime-defile...Read more of this...

by Cowper, William
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And what then is Jerusalem,
This darling object of His cares?
Where is its worth in God's esteem?
Who built it? who inhabits there?

Jehovah founded it in blood,
The blood of His incarnate Son;
There dwell the saints, once foes to God
The sinners whom He calls His own.

There, though besieged on every side,
Yet much beloved and guarded well,
From age to age they have defied
The utmost force of earth and hell.

Let earth repent, and hell despair,
This city has a su...Read more of this...

by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...Over the snow. The secret Strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thee!
And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?...Read more of this...



by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...Over the snow. The secret Strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thee!
And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?...Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...r? 
 For beauty lives with kindness: 
Love doth to her eyes repair, 
 To help him of his blindness; 
And, being help'd, inhabits there. 

Then to Silvia let us sing, 
 That Silvia is excelling; 
She excels each mortal thing 
 Upon the dull earth dwelling: 
To her let us garlands bring....Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...or a seer
and we became a home,
up into the elbows of each other's soul,
without knowing--
an invisible purchase--
that inhabits our house forever.

We were
blessed by the House-Die
by the altar of the color T.V.
and somehow managed to make a tiny marriage,
a tiny marriage
called belief,
as in the child's belief in the tooth fairy,
so close to absolute,
so daft within a year or two.
The daisies have come
for the last time.
And I who have,
each year of my l...Read more of this...

by Wordsworth, William
...its music! And I know a grove  Of large extent, hard by a castle huge  Which the great lord inhabits not: and so  This grove is wild with tangling underwood,  And the trim walks are broken up, and grass,  Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.  But never elsewhere in one place I knew  So many Nightingales: and far and near  In wood and thicket over the wide...Read more of this...

by Stevenson, Robert Louis
...not tell why, 
The Friend of the Children is sure to be by! 

He loves to be little, he hates to be big, 
'T is he that inhabits the caves that you dig; 
'T is he when you play with your soldiers of tin 
That sides with the Frenchmen and never can win. 

'T is he, when at night you go off to your bed, 
Bids you go to sleep and not trouble your head; 
For wherever they're lying, in cupboard or shelf, 
'T is he will take care of your playthings himself!...Read more of this...

by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...enkindles on its way:¡ª 
All this it knows but will not tell 
To those who cannot question well 80 
The spirit that inhabits it: 
It talks according to the wit 
Of its companions; and no more 
Is heard than has been felt before 
By those who tempt it to betray 85 
These secrets of an elder day. 
But sweetly as its answers will 
Flatter hands of perfect skill  
It keeps its highest holiest tone 
For one beloved Friend alone. 90 ...Read more of this...

by Atwood, Margaret
...hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and as you enter
it as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary....Read more of this...

by Schwartz, Delmore
...er and sun,
 Come see upon that height, and that sum
 In the seedtime of the winter's absolute,
 How yearly the phoenix inhabits the fruit.
 Behold, above all, how the tall ball
 Called the body is but a drum, but a bell
 Summoning the soul
 To rise from the catacomb of sleep and fear
 To the blaze and death of summer,

Rising from the lithe forms of the pure
Furs of the rising flames, slender and supple,
Which are the consummation of the blaze of fall and of all....Read more of this...

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