Famous Joying Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bards of Passion and of Mirth written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletchers Tragi-Comedy The Fair Maid of the Inn

...arth ye live again; 
And the souls ye left behind you 
Teach us, here, the way to find you, 
Where your other souls are joying, 
Never slumber'd, never cloying. 
Here, your earth-born souls still speak 
To mortals, of their little week; 
Of their sorrows and delights; 
Of their passions and their spites; 
Of their glory and their shame; 
What doth strengthen and what maim. 
Thus ye teach us, every day, 
Wisdom, though fled far away. 

 Bards of Passion and of Mirth, 
Ye have ...Read more of this...
by Keats, John


Epithalamion

...ights sad dread, 290 
How chearefully thou lookest from above, 
And seemst to laugh atweene thy twinkling light, 
As joying in the sight 
Of these glad many, which for joy doe sing, 
That all the woods them answer, and their echo ring! 295 

Now ceasse, ye damsels, your delights fore-past; 
Enough it is that all the day was youres: 
Now day is doen, and night is nighing fast, 
Now bring the Bryde into the brydall boures. 
The night is come, now soon her disaray, 30...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

Invern

...part of all
And sith the spirit of all moveth in me
I must needs bear earth's winter
Drawn cold and grey with hours
And joying in a momentary sun,
Lo I am withered with waiting till my spring cometh!
Or crouch covetous of warmth
O'er scant-logged ingle blaze,
Must take cramped joy in tomed Longinus
That, read I him first time
The woods agleam with summer
Or mid desirous winds of spring,
Had set me singing spheres
Or made heart to wander forth among warm roses
Or curl in grass...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra

Now When The Number Of My Years

...ulfilled, and I
From sedentary life
Shall rouse me up to die,
Bury me low and let me lie
Under the wide and starry sky.
Joying to live, I joyed to die,
Bury me low and let me lie.

Clear was my soul, my deeds were free,
Honour was called my name,
I fell not back from fear
Nor followed after fame.
Bury me low and let me lie
Under the wide and starry sky.
Joying to live, I joyed to die,
Bury me low and let me lie.

Bury me low in valleys green
And where the milder breeze
Blows ...Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ruins of Rome by Bellay

...bs show boldness vain, 
And conquer'd dare the Conqueror disdain. 


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Ye pallid spirits, and ye ashy ghosts, 
Which joying in the brightness of your day, 
Brought forth those signs of your premptuous boasts 
Which now their dusty relics do bewray; 
Tell me ye spirits (sith the darksome river 
Of Styx not passable to souls returning, 
Enclosing you in thrice three wards forever, 
Do not restrain your images still mourning) 
Tell me then (for perhaps some one of you 
Yet he...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


The Palace of Art

...
More than my soul to hear her echo'd song
Throb thro' the ribbed stone;


Singing and murmuring in her feastful mirth,
Joying to feel herself alive,
Lord over Nature, Lord of the visible earth,
Lord of the senses five;


Communing with herself: "All these are mine,
And let the world have peace or wars,
'T is one to me." She--when young night divine
Crown'd dying day with stars,


Making sweet close of his delicious toils--
Lit light in wreaths and anadems,
And pure quintesse...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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