Famous Marking Poems by Famous Poets

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

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104. The Lament

...athing night.


O thou bright queen, who o’er th’ expanse
 Now highest reign’st, with boundless sway
Oft has thy silent-marking glance
 Observ’d us, fondly-wand’ring, stray!
 The time, unheeded, sped away,
While love’s luxurious pulse beat high,
 Beneath thy silver-gleaming ray,
To mark the mutual-kindling eye.


Oh! scenes in strong remembrance set!
 Scenes, never, never to return!
Scenes, if in stupor I forget,
 Again I feel, again I burn!
 From ev’ry joy and pleasure torn,...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


75. Halloween

...the barn, in at the windy door and out at the other, having both the figure in question, and the appearance or retinue, marking the employment or station in life.—R. B. [back]
Note 13. Take an opportunity of going unnoticed to a “bear-stack,” and fathom it three times round. The last fathom of the last time you will catch in your arms the appearance of your future conjugal yoke-fellow.—R. B. [back]
Note 14. Take an opportunity of going unnoticed to a “bear-stack,” and fathom ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar

...t pride, 
Professedly the faultier that he knows 
God's secret, while he holds the thread of life. 
Indeed the especial marking of the man 
Is prone submission to the heavenly will-- 
Seeing it, what it is, and why it is. 
'Sayeth, he will wait patient to the last 
For that same death which must restore his being 
To equilibrium, body loosening soul 
Divorced even now by premature full growth: 
He will live, nay, it pleaseth him to live 
So long as God please, and just how Go...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Apologia

...bonds the soul that should be free,
Trodden the dusty road of common sense,
While all the forest sang of liberty,

Not marking how the spotted hawk in flight
Passed on wide pinion through the lofty air,
To where some steep untrodden mountain height
Caught the last tresses of the Sun God's hair.

Or how the little flower he trod upon,
The daisy, that white-feathered shield of gold,
Followed with wistful eyes the wandering sun
Content if once its leaves were aureoled.

But sur...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

Ballade at Thirty-five

...ng shower bouquets of rue, 
Walk I ever in penitence. 
Oft I roam, as my heart repents, 
Through God's acre of memory, 
Marking stones, in my reverence, 
"I loved them until they loved me." 

Pictures pass me in long review,-- 
Marching columns of dead events. 
I was tender, and, often, true; 
Ever a prey to coincidence. 
Always knew I the consequence; 
Always saw what the end would be. 
We're as Nature has made us -- hence 
I loved them until they loved me....Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy


Beowulf (Modern English)

...e will bear me to bloody slaughter, thinking to taste me—
the solitary stalker will eat without the slightest regret,
marking his swampy lair. There will be no need
to sorrow for long over cleaning my corpse!
Just send Hygelac, if the contest conquers me,
this best of battle-clothes that wards my breast,
finest of garments. It is an heirloom of Hrethel,
the work of Weland. The way of the world
always goes as it must!” (ll. 442-55)

 

VII.

Hrothgar spoke in rep...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Charmides

...ght her loosened looks
Seemed like the jagged storm-rack, and her feet
Only the spume that floats on hidden rocks,
And, marking how the rising waters beat
Against the rolling ship, the pilot cried
To the young helmsman at the stern to luff to windward side

But he, the overbold adulterer,
A dear profaner of great mysteries,
An ardent amorous idolater,
When he beheld those grand relentless eyes
Laughed loud for joy, and crying out 'I come'
Leapt from the lofty poop into the ch...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

Exiled

...spray;
Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound
Of the big surf that breaks all day.

Always before about my dooryard,
Marking the reach of the winter sea,
Rooted in sand and dragging drift-wood,
Straggled the purple wild sweet-pea;

Always I climbed the wave at morning,
Shook the sand from my shoes at night,
That now am caught beneath great buildings,
Stricken with noise, confused with light.

If I could hear the green piles groaning
Under the windy wooden piers,
See once a...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

Golfre Gothic Swiss Tale

...eheld it!

His face was pale, his eyes were wild,
His beard was dark; and near him
A stream of light was seen to glide,
Marking a poniard, crimson-dyed;
The bravest soul might fear him!

His forehead was all gash'd and gor'd--
His vest was black and flowing
His strong hand grasp'd a dagger keen,
And wild and frantic was his mien,
Dread signs of terror, showing.

"O fly me not!" the BARON cried,
"In HEAV'N'S name, do not fear me!"
Just as he spoke the bell thrice toll'd--
Thre...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt)

...the draught was mud."


And Tristram, "Was it muddier than thy gibes?
Is all the laughter gone dead out of thee?--
Not marking how the knighthood mock thee, fool--
'Fear God: honour the King--his one true knight--
Sole follower of the vows'--for here be they
Who knew thee swine enow before I came,
Smuttier than blasted grain: but when the King
Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up
It frighted all free fool from out thy heart;
Which left thee less than fool, and less than...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

November

...tied in sheaves,
Or from the field a shock of stubble thieves.
There he doth dithering sit, and entertain
His eyes with marking the storm-driven leaves;
Oft spying nests where he spring eggs had ta'en,
And wishing in his heart 'twas summer-time again.

Thus wears the month along, in checker'd moods,
Sunshine and shadows, tempests loud, and calms;
One hour dies silent o'er the sleepy woods,
The next wakes loud with unexpected storms;
A dreary nakedness the field deforms—
Yet m...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America

...s a

very long front window filled with signs and merchandise.

 There was a sign in the window advertising a laundry

 marking machine for $65. 00. The original cost of the mach-

 ine was $175. 00. Quite a saving.

 There was another sign advertising new and used two and

 three ton hoists. I wondered how many hoists it would take

 to move a trout stream.

 There was another sign that said:



 THE FAMILY GIFT CENTER,

 GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY



 The window...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Passage to India

...jestic pines,
Or, crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters
 and
 meadows; 
Marking through these, and after all, in duplicate slender lines, 
Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel, 
Tying the Eastern to the Western sea, 
The road between Europe and Asia.

(Ah Genoese, thy dream! thy dream! 
Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave, 
The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream!) 

5
Passage to India! 
Struggles o...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Qiang Village (2)

...Now enough pour and drink Short time use comfort late in life  I'm late in years, and only marking time, Returning home, I find but little joy. My darling son now will not leave my knee, He's scared that I will go away again. I remember when we used to seek the coolth, And wound between the trees beside the pool. The soughing and sighing of the north wind's strong, I'm thinking of a hundred different worries. At least I know the millet harvest's g...Read more of this...
by Fu, Du

Roosters

...hes 
where the tin rooster perches,
over our little wooden northern houses,

making sallies 
from all the muddy alleys,
marking out maps like Rand McNally's:

glass-headed pins,
oil-golds and copper greens,
anthracite blues, alizarins,

each one an active 
displacement in perspective;
each screaming, "This is where I live!"

Each screaming
"Get up! Stop dreaming!"
Roosters, what are you projecting?

You, whom the Greeks elected
to shoot at on a post, who struggled
when sacrif...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth

The Growth of Love

...d-for songs, what are ye worth,
That in my secret book with so much care
I write you, this one here and that one there,
Marking the time and order of your birth?
How, with a fancy so unkind to mirth,
A sense so hard, a style so worn and bare,
Look ye for any welcome anywhere
From any shelf or heart-home on the earth? 
Should others ask you this, say then I yearn'd
To write you such as once, when I was young,
Finding I should have loved and thereto turn'd.
'Twere something yet...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour

The Last Tournament

...he draught was mud.' 

And Tristram, `Was it muddier than thy gibes? 
Is all the laughter gone dead out of thee?-- 
Not marking how the knighthood mock thee, fool-- 
"Fear God: honour the King--his one true knight-- 
Sole follower of the vows"--for here be they 
Who knew thee swine enow before I came, 
Smuttier than blasted grain: but when the King 
Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up 
It frighted all free fool from out thy heart; 
Which left thee less than fool, and le...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Man Who Raised Charlestown

...heir ears to listen through the church-bells' startled chime – 
Far along the road to Buckland, Charlestown's guns were marking time. 

"They advance!" "They halt!" "Retreating!" "They come back!" The guns are done!" 
But the calmer spirits, listening, said: "Our guns are going on." 
And the friend and foe in Buckland felt two different kinds of thrills 
When they heard the Charlestown cannon talking on the Buckland hills. 

And the quiet man of Buckland sent a message in tha...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

The Suicide

...other passed
To make it room; the still night drifted deep
Like snow about me, and I longed for sleep.

But, suddenly, marking the morning hour,
Bayed the deep-throated bell within the tower!
Startled, I raised my head,—and with a shout
Laid hold upon the latch,—and was without.

* * * *

Ah, long-forgotten, well-remembered road, 
Leading me back unto my old abode, 
My father's house! There in the night I came, 
And found them feasting, and all things the same 
As they had b...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

The Walk

...f air, knitting the world to the clouds.
Not one zephyr on soaring pinion conveys to my hearing
Echoes, however remote, marking man's pleasures and pains.
Am I in truth, then, alone? Within thine arms, on thy bosom,
Nature, I lie once again!--Ah, and 'twas only a dream
That assailed me with horrors so fearful; with life's dreaded phantom,
And with the down-rushing vale, vanished the gloomy one too.
Purer my life I receive again from thine altar unsullied,--
Purer receive the ...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

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