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Famous Mantled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...fleecy store
Drove thro’ the sky,
I saw grim Nature’s visage hoar
 Struck thy young eye.


“Or when the deep green-mantled earth
Warm cherish’d ev’ry floweret’s birth,
And joy and music pouring forth
 In ev’ry grove;
I saw thee eye the general mirth
 With boundless love.


“When ripen’d fields and azure skies
Call’d forth the reapers’ rustling noise,
I saw thee leave their ev’ning joys,
 And lonely stalk,
To vent thy bosom’s swelling rise,
 In pensive walk.


“Wh...Read more of this...



by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...view
By pure white flakes, all trackless and untrodden.
When Winter dies, low at the sweet Spring's feet
Let him be mantled in a clean, white sheet.

Let the old life be covered by the new:
The old past life so full of sad mistakes,
Let it be wholly hidden from the view
By deeds as white and silent as snow-flakes.

Ere this earth life melts in the eternal Spring
Let the white mantle of repentance fling
Soft drapery about it, fold on fold,
Even as the new snow cove...Read more of this...

by Poe, Edgar Allan
...
Unguided Love hath fallen- 'mid "tears of perfect moan."
He was a goodly spirit- he who fell:
A wanderer by moss-y-mantled well-
A gazer on the lights that shine above-
A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love:
What wonder? for each star is eye-like there,
And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair-
And they, and ev'ry mossy spring were holy
To his love-haunted heart and melancholy.
The night had found (to him a night of woe)
Upon a mountain crag, young Angelo-
Beetling...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...eve, 
 And on that leafy hall! 
 Away, ye merry maids, etc. 
 
 The darkened city breathed no more; 
 The moon was mantled long, 
 Till towers thrust the cloudy cloak 
 Upon the steeples' throng; 
 The crossway Christ, in ivy draped, 
 Shrank, grieving, 'neath the pall,— 
 Away, ye merry maids, etc. 
 
 But while, alone, they kept the shade, 
 The other dark-eyed dears 
 Were murmuring on the stifling air 
 Their jealous threats and fears; 
 Alizia was so blam...Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...
Raufe. 
Saie to mee nete; I kenne thie woe in myne; 
O! I've a tale that Sabalus mote telle. 
Swote flouretts, mantled meedows, forestes dynge; 
Gravots far-kend around the Errmiets cell; 
The swote ribible dynning yn the dell; 
The joyous dauncynge ynn the hoastrie courte; 
Eke the highe songe and everych joie farewell, 
Farewell the verie shade of fayre dysporte; 
Impestering trobble onn mie dernie tale, 
Ne one kynde Seyncte to warde the aye encreasynge dome. ...Read more of this...



by Gray, Thomas
...ave where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient solitary reign.

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

The breezy call of incense-breathin...Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...amish grace 
Defies the fury of the howling storm; 
And whilst the tempest whistles round his face, 
Exults to find his mantled carcase warm. 

Now rumbling coaches furious drive along, 
Full of the majesty of city dames, 
Whose jewels sparkling in the gaudy throng, 
Raise strange emotions and invidious flames. 

Now Merit, happy in the calm of place, 
To mortals as a highlander appears, 
And conscious of the excellence of lace, 
With spreading frogs and gleaming span...Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...r> 
Search the brown desert, and the glossy green; 
There are the trophies of thy valour seen. 
The scatter'd bones mantled in silver white, 
Once animated, dared the force in fight. 
The children of the wave, whose pallid face, 
Views the faint sun display a languid face, 
From the red fury of thy justice fled, 
Swifter than torrents from their rocky bed. 
Fear with a sickened silver ting'd their hue; 
The guilty fear, when vengeance is their due. 

Gaira.Read more of this...

by Keats, John
..., or hoarse with loud tormented streams:
And all the everlasting cataracts,
And all the headlong torrents far and near,
Mantled before in darkness and huge shade,
Now saw the light and made it terrible.
It was Hyperion:---a granite peak
His bright feet touch'd, and there he stay'd to view
The misery his brilliance had betray'd
To the most hateful seeing of itself.
Golden his hair of short Numidian curl,
Regal his shape majestic, a vast shade
In midst of his own bright...Read more of this...

by Campbell, Thomas
...When first the fiery-mantled sun 
His heavenly race begun to run; 
Round the earth and ocean blue, 
His children four the Seasons flew. 
First, in green apparel dancing, 
The young Spring smiled with angel grace; 
Rosy summer next advancing, 
Rushed into her sire's embrace:- 
Her blue-haired sire, who bade her keep 
For ever nearest to his smile, 
On Calpe's olive-shaded ste...Read more of this...

by Seeger, Alan
...Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er 
Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom 
A savor steals from linden trees in bloom 
And gardens ranged at many a palace door. 
Proud walls rise here, and, where the moonbeams pour 
Their pale enchantment down the dim coast-line, 
Terrace and lawn, trim hedge and flowering vine, 
Crown with fair culture all the sounding shore.Read more of this...

by Wheatley, Phillis
...eforward flow,
No more distress'd in our dark vale below,

Her morning sun, which rose divinely bright,
Was quickly mantled with the gloom of night;
But hear in heav'n's blest bow'rs your Nancy fair,
And learn to imitate her language there.
"Thou, Lord, whom I behold with glory crown'd,
"By what sweet name, and in what tuneful sound
"Wilt thou be prais'd?  Seraphic pow'rs are faint
"Infinite love and majesty to paint.
"To thee let all their graceful voices ...Read more of this...

by Tebb, Barry
...heir mirrored forms

Await the blast of the last judgement’s call to make them

Take that final walk across the heather mantled moor.

Down vain corridors I searched for some leaf token

Of a life unlived, a faded mignonette or four leaved clover

Down a pathway closed forever by the twists of fate:

The shadows of you gone still took the night

And I was left alone to face the painful light....Read more of this...

by Seeger, Alan
...re 
My youth was the pathetic thirsting for, 
And where she moved the veil of Nature grew 
Diaphanous and that radiance mantled through 
Which, when I see, I tremble and adore....Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...ing reed. 
He drew his army forth: Oh, need I tell! 
That Nicou conquer'd, and the lover fell; 
His breathless army mantled all the plain; 
And Death sat smiling on the heaps of slain. 
The battle ended, with his reeking dart, 
The pensive Nicou pierc'd his beating heart; 
And to his mourning valiant warriors cry'd, 
I, and my sister's ghost are satisfy'd....Read more of this...

by Seeger, Alan
...down its darkening aisle the sunset glow
Grew less and patterning the garden floor
Faint flakes of filtering moonlight mantled more and more.

And the strange tempest that a touch imparts
Through the mid fibre of the molten frame,
When the sweet flesh in early youth asserts
Its heyday verve and little hints enflame,
Disturbed them as they walked; from their full hearts
Welled the soft word, and many a tender name
Strove on their lips as breast to breast they strained
And...Read more of this...

by Scott, Sir Walter
...e glossy black to shame might bring
     The plumage of the raven's wing;
     And seldom o'er a breast so fair
     Mantled a plaid with modest care,
     And never brooch the folds combined
     Above a heart more good and kind.
     Her kindness and her worth to spy,
     You need but gaze on Ellen's eye;
      Not Katrine in her mirror blue
     Gives back the shaggy banks more true,
     Than every free-born glance confessed
     The guileless movements of her...Read more of this...

by Thomson, James
...er'd, vapoury, Prey,
Where Marshes stagnate, and where Rivers wind,
Cluster the rolling Fogs, and swim along 
The dusky-mantled Lawn: then slow descend,
Once more to mingle with their Watry Friends.
The vivid Stars shine out, in radiant Files;
And boundless Ether glows, till the fair Moon
Shows her broad Visage, in the crimson'd East; 
Now, stooping, seems to kiss the passing Cloud:
Now, o'er the pure Cerulean, rides sublime.
Wide the pale Deluge floats, with silver W...Read more of this...

by Bryant, William Cullen
...take thy feet." 

"Heed not the night, a summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 
'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine; 
The wild plum sheds its yellow fruit from fragrant thickets nigh, 
And flowery prairies from the door stretch till they meet the sky. 

"There in the boughs that hide the roof the mock-bird sits and sings, 
And there the hang-bird's brood within its little hammock swings; 
A pebbly brook, where rustling winds among the hopples sweep...Read more of this...

by Tolkien, J R R
...e Thengel's son:
To Edoras he came, the ancient halls
Of the Mark-wardens mist-enshrouded;
Golden timbers were in gloom mantled.
Farewell he bade to his free people,
Hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places,
Where long he had feasted ere the light faded.
Forth rode the king, fear behind him,
Fate before him. Fealty kept he;
Oaths he had taken, all fulfilled them.
Forth rode Theoden. Five nights and days
East and onward rode the Eolingas.
Through F...Read more of this...

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