Famous Longingly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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May Miracle

by Robert William Service
 On this festive first of May,
Wending wistfully my way
Three sad sights I saw today.

The first was such a lovely lad
He lit with grace the sordid street;
Yet in a monk's robe he was clad,
With tonsured head and sandalled feet.
Though handsome as a movie star
His eyes had holiness in them,
As if he saw afaint, afar
A stable-stall in Bethlehem.

The second was a...Read more of this...

To a Stranger

by Walt Whitman
 PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, 
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me, as of a dream,) 
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you, 
All is recall’d as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured, 
You grew up...Read more of this...

Think of the Soul

by Walt Whitman
 THINK of the Soul; 
I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to live in other
 spheres; 
I do not know how, but I know it is so. 

Think of loving and being loved; 
I swear to you, whoever you are, you can interfuse yourself with such things that
 everybody
 that sees you...Read more of this...

Song of the Wave XVII

by Kahlil Gibran
 The strong shore is my beloved 
And I am his sweetheart. 
We are at last united by love, and 
Then the moon draws me from him. 
I go to him in haste and depart 
Reluctantly, with many 
Little farewells. 


I steal swiftly from behind the 
Blue horizon to cast the silver of 
My foam upon the gold of his...Read more of this...

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