Famous Maddens Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Memory

by Adela Florence Cory Nicolson
   How I loved you in your sleep,
   With the starlight on your hair!

   The touch of your lips was sweet,
     Aziza whom I adore,
   I lay at your slender feet,
     And against their soft palms pressed,
   I fitted my face to...Read more of this...

Hymn To Joy

by Friedrich von Schiller
 Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal,
Offspring of Elysium,
Mad with rapture, to the portal
Of thy holy fame we come!
Fashion's laws, indeed, may sever,
But thy magic joins again;
All mankind are brethren ever
'Neath thy mild and gentle reign.

CHORUS.
Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!
Brethren, take the kiss of love!
Yes, the starry realms above
Hide a Father's smiling features!

He, that noble prize possessing--
He that boasts a friend...Read more of this...

The Burning-Glass

by George William Russell
 A SHAFT of fire that falls like dew,
 And melts and maddens all my blood,
From out thy spirit flashes through
 The burning-glass of womanhood.


Only so far; here must I stay:
 Nearer I miss the light, the fire;
I must endure the torturing ray,
 And with all beauty, all desire.


Ah, time long must the effort be,
 And far the way that...Read more of this...

The League of Nations

by Henry Lawson
 Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! 
The Big Five met in the world's light as many had met before, 
And the future of man is settled and there shall be no more war. 

The lamb shall lie down with the lion, and trust with treachery; 
The brave man go with the coward, and the chained...Read more of this...

Heccar and Gaira

by Thomas Chatterton
 Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, 
Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; 
Where the sharp rocks, in distant horror seen, 
Drive the white currents thro' the spreading green; 
Where the loud tiger, pawing in his rage, 
Bids the black archers of the wilds engage; 
Stretch'd on the sand, two panting warriors lay, 
In all the burning...Read more of this...

Deserted Gipsy's Song: Hillside Camp

by Adela Florence Cory Nicolson
   She is glad to receive your turquoise ring,
         Dear and dark-eyed Lover of mine!
   I, to have given you everything:
         Beauty maddens the soul like Wine.

   "She is proud to have held aloof her charms,
  ...Read more of this...

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