Famous Insignia Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ainsi Va le Monde

...s, in visionary gloom,
The sainted shadows of the laurel'd tomb, 
The Star of Virtue glist'ning on each breast, 
Divine insignia of the spirit blest! 
Then MILTON smiles serene, a beauteous shade, 
In worth august­in lust'rous fires array'd. 
Immortal SHAKSPERE gleams across the sight, 
Rob'd in ethereal vest of radiant light. 
Wing'd Ages picture to the dazzled view 
Each mark'd perfection­of the sacred few, 
POPE, DRYDEN, SPENSER, all that Fame shall raise, 
From CHAUCER'S ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby


Apology

...a wind-forgotten cloud,
And shroud
Me from close contact with the world.
I dwell impearled.
You blazon me with jewelled insignia.
A flaming nebula
Rims in my life. And yet
You set
The word upon me, unconfessed
To go unguessed....Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Burial of Mr. Gladstone

...s Lord Pembroke,
The representative of Her Majesty, and the Duke of Norfolk,
Carrying aloft a beautiful short wand,
The insignia of his high, courtly office, which looked very grand. 

And when the procession arrived at the grave,
Mrs Gladstone was there,
And in her countenance was depicted a very grave air;
And the dear, good lady seemed to sigh and moan
For her departed, loving husband, Wm. Ewart Gladstone. 

And on the opposite side of her stood Lord Pembroke,
And Lord Sal...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Tower Of Light

...O tower of light, sad beauty
that magnified necklaces and statues in the sea,
calcareous eye, insignia of the vast waters, cry
of the mourning petrel, tooth of the sea, wife
of the Oceanian wind, O separate rose
from the long stem of the trampled bush
that the depths, converted into archipelago,
O natural star, green diadem,
alone in your lonesome dynasty,
still unattainable, elusive, desolate
like one drop, like one grape, like the sea....Read more of this...
by Neruda, Pablo

V

...for who nicked the missing letters!)

The big blue star for booze, tobacco ads,
the magnet's monogram, the royal crest,
insignia in neon dwarf the lads
who spray a few odd FUCKS when they're depressed.

Letters of transparent tubes and gas
in Düsseldorf are blue and flash out KRUPP.
Arms are hoisted for the British ruling class
and clandestine, genteel aggro keeps them up.

And there's HARRISON on some Leeds building sites
I've taken in fun as blazoning my name,
which I've al...Read more of this...
by Harrison, Tony


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