Famous Joyance Poems by Famous Poets

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

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All Things Will Die

...outh winds are blowing

 Over the sky.
One after another the white clouds are fleeting;
Every heart this May morning in joyance is beating

 Full merrily;
 Yet all things must die.
The stream will cease to flow;
The wind will cease to blow;
The clouds will cease to fleet;
The heart will cease to beat;
 For all things must die.
 All things must die.
Spring will come never more.
 O, vanity!
Death waits at the door.
See! our friends are all forsaking
The wine and the merrymaking...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


By an Autumn Fire

...wn the whimper of wind and rain 
With undaunted laughter, echoing long, 
Cheery old tale and gay old song; 
Ours is the joyance of ripe fruition, 
Attained ambition. 
Ours is the treasure of tested loving, 
Friendship that needs no further proving; 

No more of springtime hopes, sweet and uncertain,
Here we have largess of summer in fee­
Pile high the logs till the flame be leaping,
At bay the chill of the autumn keeping,
While pilgrim-wise, we may go a-reaping
In the fairest...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Epithalamion

...ng home the bride againe; 
Bring home the triumph of our victory: 
Bring home with you the glory of her gaine; 
With joyance bring her and with jollity. 245 
Never had man more joyfull day then this, 
Whom heaven would heape with blis, 
Make feast therefore now all this live-long day; 
This day for ever to me holy is. 
Poure out the wine without restraint or stay, 250 
Poure not by cups, but by the belly full, 
Poure out to all that wull, 
And sprinkle all the post...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

Flood-Tide of Flowers

...light,
Through garden bare and empty field. 

And first, along the sheltered nooks,
The crocus runs in little brooks
Of joyance, till by light made bold
They show the gladness of their looks
In shining pools of white and gold. 

The tiny scilla, sapphire blue,
Is gently seeping in, to strew
The earth with heaven; and sudden rills
Of sunlit yellow, sweeping through,
Spread into lakes of daffodils. 

The hyacinths, with fragrant heads,
Have overflowed their sandy beds,
And fill...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

My Cicely

..."ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder,
Was faint of my joyance,
And grasses and grove shone in garments
Of glory to me.

"She lives, in a plenteous well-being,
To-day as aforehand;
The dead bore the name--though a rare one--
The name that bore she."

She lived ... I, afar in the city
Of frenzy-led factions,
Had squandered green years and maturer
In bowing the knee

To Baals illusive and specious,
Till chance had...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue

...ll laugh yourself young again.'
So the priests hated him, and he
Repaid their hate with cheerful glee. 

Ah, smiles and joyance quickly died,
For public hope grew pale and dim
In an altered time and tide,
And in its wasting withered him,
As a summer flower that blows too soon
Droops in the smile of the waning moon,
When it scatters through an April night
The frozen dews of wrinkling blight.
None now hoped more. Gray Power was seated
Safely on her ancestral throne; 
And Faith,...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sonnet XLII

...at paints the vernal year;Cloudless the skies, and smiling every plain;With joyance flush'd, Jove views his daughter dear;Love's genial power pervades earth, air, and main;All beings join'd in fond accord appear.But nought to me returns save sorrowing sighs,Forced from my inmost heart by her who boreThose keys which govern'd...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Dungeon

...bsp; A different lore: we may not thus profane  Nature's sweet voices always full of love  And joyance! Tis the merry Nightingale   That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,  As he were fearful, that an April night  Would be too short for him to utter forth  Hi? love-chant, and disburthen his full soul  Of all its music! And I know a grove&...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

The Mother

...il grasses;
Though your eyes are fast shut I can see their blue,
Splendid and soft as starshine in heaven,
With all the joyance and wisdom given
From the many souls who have stanchly striven
Through the dead years to be strong and true. 

Those fine little feet in my worn hands holden . . . 
Where will they tread ?
Valleys of shadow or heights dawn-red?
And those silken fingers, O, wee, white son,
What valorous deeds shall by them be done
In the future that yet so distant is ...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

To a Skylark

...ountains? 
What shapes of sky or plain? 
What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? 

With thy clear keen joyance 
Languor cannot be; 
Shadow of annoyance 
Never came near thee: 
Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.

Waking or asleep, 
Thou of death must deem 
Things more true and deep 
Than we mortals dream, 
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? 

We look before and after, 
And pine for what is not: 
Our sincerest laugh...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

When the Fishing Boats Go Out

...And waves of golden glory break adown the sunrise shore,
And o'er the arch of heaven pied films of vapor float.
There's joyance and there's freedom when the fishing boats go out. 

The wind is blowing freshly up from far, uncharted caves,
And sending sparkling kisses o'er the brows of virgin waves,
While routed dawn-mists shiver­oh, far and fast they flee,
Pierced by the shafts of sunrise athwart the merry sea! 

Behind us, fair, light-smitten hills in dappled splendor lie,
B...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

White Nassau

...ay long and utters his wise assuring word;
While up in their blue chantry murmur the solemn palms.
At their litanies of joyance, their ancient ceaseless psalms.

There in the endless sunlight, within the surf's low sound,
Peace tarries for a lifetime at doorways unrenowned;
And a velvet air goes breathing across the sea-girt land,
Till the sense begins to waken and the soul to understand.

There's a pier in the East River, where a black Ward Liner lies,
With her wheezy donkey...Read more of this...
by Carman, Bliss

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