Famous Lightest Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Mans Requirements

...I 

Love me Sweet, with all thou art, 
Feeling, thinking, seeing; 
Love me in the lightest part, 
Love me in full being. 

II 

Love me with thine open youth 
In its frank surrender; 
With the vowing of thy mouth, 
With its silence tender. 

III 

Love me with thine azure eyes, 
Made for earnest grantings; 
Taking colour from the skies, 
Can Heaven's truth be wanting? 

IV 

Love me with their lids, that fall 
Snow-like at first meeting; ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Balin and Balan

...at tower would crash down on both-- 
"Rise, my sweet King, and kiss me on the lips, 
Thou art my King." This lad, whose lightest word 
Is mere white truth in simple nakedness, 
Saw them embrace: he reddens, cannot speak, 
So bashful, he! but all the maiden Saints, 
The deathless mother-maidenhood of Heaven, 
Cry out upon her. Up then, ride with me! 
Talk not of shame! thou canst not, an thou would'st, 
Do these more shame than these have done themselves.' 

She lied with ease...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Chopin

...the unspoken hope, the vague, sad reveries. 


IV

Then Nature shaped a poet's heart--a lyre 
From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows 
Drew trembling music, wakening sweet desire. 
How shall she cherish him? Behold! she throws 
This precious, fragile treasure in the whirl 
Of seething passions; he is scourged and stung, 
Must dive in storm-vext seas, if but one pearl 
Of art or beauty therefrom may be wrung. 
No pure-browed pensive nymph his Muse shall be, 
An am...Read more of this...
by Lazarus, Emma

Cleared

...honest man flat-heeled across your mouth.

"Less black than we were painted"? -- Faith, no word of black was said;
The lightest touch was human blood, and that, you know, runs red.
It's sticking to your fist to-day for all your sneer and scoff,
And by the Judge's well-weighed word you cannot wipe it off.

Hold up those hands of innocence -- go, scare your sheep together,
The blundering, tripping tups that bleat behind the old bell-wether;
And if they snuff the taint and brea...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Epipsychidion (excerpt)

...roof of blue Ionian weather,
And wander in the meadows, or ascend
The mossy mountains, where the blue heavens bend
With lightest winds, to touch their paramour;
Or linger, where the pebble-paven shore,
Under the quick, faint kisses of the sea,
Trembles and sparkles as with ecstasy--
Possessing and possess'd by all that is
Within that calm circumference of bliss,
And by each other, till to love and live
Be one: or, at the noontide hour, arrive
Where some old cavern hoar seems ...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Garden Francies

...Spanish
June's twice June since she breathed it with me?
Come, bud, show me the least of her traces,
Treasure my lady's lightest footfall!
---Ah, you may flout and turn up your faces---
Roses, you are not so fair after all!


II. SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS.

Plague take all your pedants, say I!
He who wrote what I hold in my hand,
Centuries back was so good as to die,
Leaving this rubbish to cumber the land;
This, that was a book in its time,
Printed on paper and bound in lea...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Gertrude of Wyoming

...u wert like Gertrude now
Can I forget thee, favorite child of yore?
Or thought I, in thy father's house, when thou
Wert lightest-hearted on his festive floor,
And first of all his hospitable door
To meet and kiss me at my journey's end?
But where was I when Waldegrave was no more?
And thou didst pale thy gentle head extend
In woes, that ev'n the tribe of deserts was thy friend!"

He said--and strain'd unto his heart the boy;--
Far differently, the mute Oneyda took
His calumet...Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas

Inferno (English)

...e whole race of those 
 The smallest Heaven the moon's short orbits hold 
 Excels in its creation, not thy least, 
 Thy lightest wish in this dark realm were told 
 Vainly. But show me why the Heavens unclose 
 To loose thee from them, and thyself content 
 Couldst thus continue in such strange descent 
 From that most Spacious Place for which ye burn, 
 And while ye further left, would fain return.' 

 " 'That which thou wouldst,' she said, 'I briefly tell. 
 There is no fea...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Ode

...ead;
The sacred poets first shall hear the sound,
And foremost from the tomb shall bound:
For they are covered with the lightest ground;
And straight with in-born vigour, on the wing,
Like mounting larks, to the New Morning sing.
There thou, sweet saint, before the choir shall go,
As harbinger of Heav'n, the way to show,
The way which thou so well hast learned below....Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

On The Hurricane

...Sin, 
To be of their Perfections proud, 
Too much adorn'd without, or too much rais'd within, 
Now find, that even the lightest Things, 
As the minuter parts of Air, 
When Number to their Weight addition brings, 
Can, like the small, but numerous Insects Stings, 
Can, like th' assembl'd Winds, urge Ruin and Despair. 


Thus You've obey'd, you Winds, that must fulfill 
The Great disposer's Righteous Will: 
Thus did your Breath a strict Enquiry make, 
Thus did you our most sec...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

Paradise Lost: Book 10

...ed out of all, believing lies 
Against his Maker; no decree of mine 
Concurring to necessitate his fall, 
Or touch with lightest moment of impulse 
His free will, to her own inclining left 
In even scale. But fallen he is; and now 
What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass 
On his transgression,--death denounced that day? 
Which he presumes already vain and void, 
Because not yet inflicted, as he feared, 
By some immediate stroke; but soon shall find 
Forbearance no acqui...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Pelleas And Ettarre

...or he dreamed 
His lady loved him, and he knew himself 
Loved of the King: and him his new-made knight 
Worshipt, whose lightest whisper moved him more 
Than all the rangd reasons of the world. 

Then blushed and brake the morning of the jousts, 
And this was called `The Tournament of Youth:' 
For Arthur, loving his young knight, withheld 
His older and his mightier from the lists, 
That Pelleas might obtain his lady's love, 
According to her promise, and remain 
Lord of the ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Dance

...See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet;
And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those harmonious feet.
Ob, are they flying shadows from their native forms set free?
Or phantoms in the fairy ring that summer moonbeams see?
As, by the gentle zephyr blown, some light mist flees in air,
As skiffs that skim adown the tide, when silver waves are fair,
So...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Lady of the Lake

...e to see thee grace,
     In Scotland's court, thy birthright place,
     To see my favorite's step advance
     The lightest in the courtly dance,
     The cause of every gallant's sigh,
     And leading star of every eye,
     And theme of every minstrel's art,
     The Lady of the Bleeding Heart!'
     XI.

     'Fair dreams are these,' the maiden cried,—
     Light was her accent, yet she sighed,—
     'Yet is this mossy rock to me
     Worth splendid chair a...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Legend of Mirth

...s-winged from out the assembly first.
Zeal was their spur that bade them strictly heed
Their own high judgment on their lightest deed.
Zeal was their spur that, when relief was given,
Urged them unwearied to new toils in Heaven; 
For Honour's sake perfecting every task
Beyond what e 'en Perfection's self could ask. . .
And Allah, Who created Zeal and Pride,
Knows how the twain are perilous-near allied.


It chanced on one of Heaven's long-lighted days,
The Four and all the Ho...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Moon

...ear friends at home. 

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the weary traveller in the night;
For thou lightest up the wayside around
To him when he is homeward bound. 

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the lovers in the night
As they walk through the shady groves alone,
Making love to each other before they go home. 

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the poacher in the night;
For thou lettest him see to set his snare...Read more of this...
by Davies, William Henry

The Princess (part 4)

...rm, now the star, 
I paced the terrace, till the Bear had wheeled 
Through a great arc his seven slow suns. 
A step 
Of lightest echo, then a loftier form 
Than female, moving through the uncertain gloom, 
Disturbed me with the doubt 'if this were she,' 
But it was Florian. 'Hist O Hist,' he said, 
'They seek us: out so late is out of rules. 
Moreover "seize the strangers" is the cry. 
How came you here?' I told him: 'I' said he, 
'Last of the train, a moral leper, I, 
To who...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Siege of Corinth

...like man, to time; 
Tyrant and slave are swept away, 
Less form'd to wear the before the ray; 
But that white veil, the lightest, frailest, 
Which on the mighty mount thou hailest, 
Shines o'er its craggy battlement; 
In form a peak, in height a cloud, 
In texture like a hovering shroud, 
Thus high by parting Freedom spread, 
As from her fond abode she fled, 
And linger'd on the spot, where long 
Her prophet spirit spake in song. 
Oh! still her step at moments falters 
O'er w...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Witch Of Atlas

...ich are,
And so she sold it, and Apollo bought
And gave it to this daughter: from a car,
Changed to the fairest and the lightest boat
Which ever upon mortal stream did float.

And others say that, when but three hours old,
The firstborn Love out of his cradle leapt,
And clove dun chaos with his wings of gold,
And, like a horticultural adept,
Stole a strange seed, and wrapped it up in mould,
And sowed it in his mother's star, and kept
Watering it all the summer with sweet dew,...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

To Stella Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems

...bribe,
Resolved to mortify your pride,
I'll here expose your weaker side.
Your spirits kindle to a flame,
Moved by the lightest touch of blame;
And when a friend in kindness tries
To show you where your error lies,
Conviction does but more incense;
Perverseness is your whole defence;
Truth, judgment, wit, give place to spite,
Regardless both of wrong and right;
Your virtues all suspended wait,
Till time has opened reason's gate;
And, what is worse, your passion bends
Its for...Read more of this...
by Swift, Jonathan

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