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Famous Intimation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lanier, Sidney
...terers and their squires
Clattered in retinue, and aped his pace,
And timed their talk by his, and worked their eyes
By intimation of his glance, with great
And drilled precision.
Then said the fool:
"'Twas a brave flight, my lord, that last one! brave.
Didst note the heron once did turn about,
And show a certain anger with his wing,
And make as if he almost dared, not quite,
To strike the falcon, ere the falcon him?
A foolish damnable advised bird,
Yon heron! What? S...Read more of this...



by McGonagall, William Topaz
...ated in Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow. 

The flames burst forth about three o'clock in the afternoon,
And intimation of the outbreak spread very soon; 
And in the spectators' faces were depicted fear and consternation; 
While the news flew like lightning to the Fire Brigade Station. 

And when the Brigade reached the scene of the fire,
The merciless flames were ascending higher and higher, 
Raging furiously in all the floors above the street, 
And within twe...Read more of this...

by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...uminous circle, faint and dim,
And scarcely visible to us here,
Rounds and completes the perfect sphere;
A prophecy and intimation,
A pale and feeble adumbration,
Of the great world of light, that lies
Behind all human destinies.

Ah! if thy fate, with anguish fraught,
Should be to wet the dusty soil
With the hot tears and sweat of toil,--
To struggle with imperious thought,
Until the overburdened brain,
Weary with labor, faint with pain,
Like a jarred pendulum, retain
On...Read more of this...

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