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Famous Lounger Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...se by the side, to dodge
Eyes in the house, two eyes except:
They styled their house "The Lodge".

What right had a lounger up their lane?
But, by creeping very close,
With the good wall's help,—their eyes might strain
And stretch themselves to Oes,

Yet never catch her and me together,
As she left the attic, there,
By the rim of the bottle labelled "Ether",
And stole from stair to stair,

And stood by the rose-wreathed gate. Alas,
We loved, sir—used to meet:
How sad ...Read more of this...



by Schwartz, Delmore
...
Who would ask more of the August afternoon? 
Who would dig mines and follow shadows? 
"I would," answers bored Heart, "Lounger, rise"
(Underlip trembling, face white with stony anger),
"The old error, the thought of sitting still, 
"The senses drinking, by the summer river, 
"On the tended lawn, below the traffic, 
"As if time would pause,
 and afternoon stay.
"No, night comes soon,
"With its cold mountains, with desolation,
 unless Love build its city."...Read more of this...

by Gregory, Rg
...ea
and scuttled with it sideways
marking sand and word with sea's
inventions - what shaw perceived
went deeper than the lounger's eye
stripped for entertainment in the sun
shaw's art was nip and prick
sending the red-skinned lounger home
with buzzing brain shocked tongue
and sandstorms stinging in his ears

jung went for niches in the night
believing that the seeds of suns
had tucked themselves away before
the daylight had its uses tamed
and from the furthest midnight-stitch
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by Whitman, Walt
...ds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me, it shall be you! 
Broad, muscular fields! branches of live oak! loving lounger in my winding
 paths! it shall be you! 
Hands I have taken—face I have kiss’d—mortal I have ever
 touch’d! it shall be you. 

I dote on myself—there is that lot of me, and all so luscious;
Each moment, and whatever happens, thrills me with joy. 

O I am wonderful! 
I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest...Read more of this...

by Seeger, Alan
...and interlaced;
Pendant brocades with massive braid were caught,
And chain-slung, oriental lamps so placed
To light the lounger on some low divan,
Sunken in swelling down and silks from Hindustan.

And there was spread, upon the ample floors,
Work of the Levantine's laborious loom,
Such as by Euxine or Ionian shores
Carpets the dim seraglio's scented gloom.
Each morn renewed, the garden's flowery stores
Blushed in fair vases, ochre and peach-bloom,
And little birds th...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...his repast, 
 Since appetite was come to munch at last 
 The princely morsel!—Ah! what sight astounds 
 That grisly lounger? 
 
 In the palace grounds 
 An alcove on a garden gives, and there 
 A tiny thing—forgot in the general fear, 
 Lulled in the flower-sweet dreams of infancy, 
 Bathed with soft sunlight falling brokenly 
 Through leaf and lattice—was at that moment waking; 
 A little lovely maid, most dear and taking, 
 The prince's sister—all alone, undres...Read more of this...

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