Famous Mazed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Contemplations

...heard,
51 In pathless paths I lead my wand'ring feet.
52 My humble Eyes to lofty Skies I rear'd
53 To sing some Song my mazed Muse thought meet.
54 My great Creator I would magnify
55 That nature had thus decked liberally,
56 But Ah and Ah again, my imbecility! 

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57 I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,
58 The black clad Cricket bear a second part.
59 They kept one tune and played on the same string,
60 Seeming to glory in their little Art.
61 Shall creatures abject th...Read more of this...
by Bradstreet, Anne


Fra Lippo Lippi

...of a corner when you least expect, 
As one by a dark stair into a great light, 
Music and talking, who but Lippo! I!-- 
Mazed, motionless, and moonstruck--I'm the man! 
Back I shrink--what is this I see and hear? 
I, caught up with my monk's-things by mistake, 
My old serge gown and rope that goes all round, 
I, in this presence, this pure company! 
Where's a hole, where's a corner for escape? 
Then steps a sweet angelic slip of a thing 
Forward, puts out a soft palm--"Not so...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Gareth And Lynette

...ly, that opened on the field below: 
Anon, the whole fair city had disappeared. 

Then those who went with Gareth were amazed, 
One crying, 'Let us go no further, lord. 
Here is a city of Enchanters, built 
By fairy Kings.' The second echoed him, 
'Lord, we have heard from our wise man at home 
To Northward, that this King is not the King, 
But only changeling out of Fairyland, 
Who drave the heathen hence by sorcery 
And Merlin's glamour.' Then the first again, 
'Lord, there...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Infantile Influence

...gue that knows no guile, 
 Quick changing tears and bliss; 
 Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light, 
 Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight, 
 Thy lips to taste the kiss. 
 
 Oh, God! bless me and mine, and these I love, 
 And e'en my foes that still triumphant prove 
 Victors by force or guile; 
 A flowerless summer may we never see, 
 Or nest of bird bereft, or hive of bee, 
 Or home of infant's smile. 
 
 HENRY HIGHTON, M.A. 


 




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by Hugo, Victor

Love In The Asylum

...house not right in the head,
 A girl mad as birds

Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
 Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds

Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
 At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.

 She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
 Possessed by the skies

She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
 Yet rave...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan


Love Of The Woodland

...did court 
 Cues from Pan (in heron port, 
 Half in ooze, half treeward raised), 
 "Words so witty, that Boileau's 'mazed!" 
 
 Foliage! fondly you attract! 
 Dian's faith I keep intact, 
 And declare that thy dryads dance 
 Still, and will, in thy green expanse! 


 




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by Hugo, Victor

Pelleas And Ettarre

...hee pure as Guinevere.' 

But Percivale stood near him and replied, 
`Am I but false as Guinevere is pure? 
Or art thou mazed with dreams? or being one 
Of our free-spoken Table hast not heard 
That Lancelot'--there he checked himself and paused. 

Then fared it with Sir Pelleas as with one 
Who gets a wound in battle, and the sword 
That made it plunges through the wound again, 
And pricks it deeper: and he shrank and wailed, 
`Is the Queen false?' and Percivale was mute. 
`...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Riding Together

...er met together,
He waited the death-stroke there in his place,
With thoughts of death, in the lovely weather,
Gapingly mazed at my madden'd face.

Madly I fought as we fought together;
In vain: the little Christian band
The pagans drown'd, as in stormy weather
The river drowns low-lying land.

They bound my blood-stain'd hands together,
They bound his corpse to nod by my side:
Then on we rode, in the bright March weather,
With clash of cymbals did we ride.

We ride no more, ...Read more of this...
by Morris, William

Song of Diego Valdez

...spring would bide:
Wherefore, to wait my pleasure,
 I put my spring aside
Till, first in face of Fortune,
 And last in mazed disdain,
I made Diego Valdez
 High Admiral of Spain.

Then walked no wind 'neath Heaven
 Nor surge that did not aid --
I dared extreme occasion,
 Nor ever one betrayed.
They wrought a deeper treason --
 (Led seas that served my needs!)
They sold Diego Valdez
 To bondage of great deeds.

The tempest flung me seaward,
 And pinned and bade me hold
The cou...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Sonnet VII

...Fayre eyes, the myrrour of my mazed hart,
what wondrous vertue is contaynd in you
the which both lyfe and death forth fro[m] you dart
into the obiect of your mighty view?
For when ye mildly looke with louely hew,
then is my soule with life and loue inspired:
but when ye lowre, or looke on me askew
then doe I die, as one with lightning fyred.
But since that lyfe is more then death desyred...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

The English Flag

...nd the long-backed breakers croon
Their endless ocean legends to the lazy, locked lagoon.

"Strayed amid lonely islets, mazed amid outer keys,
I waked the palms to laughter -- I tossed the scud in the breeze --
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

"I have wrenched it free from the halliard to hang for a wisp on the Horn;
I have chased it north to the Lizard -- ribboned and rolled and torn;
I have spr...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Last Rhyme of True Thomas

...of the groanin' earth,
 They come wi' news o' the roarin' sea,
Wi' word of Spirit and Ghost and Flesh,
 And man, that's mazed among the three."

The King he bit his nether lip,
 And smote his hand upon his knee:
"By the faith o' my soul, True Thomas," he said,
 "Ye waste no wit in courtesie!

"As I desire, unto my pride,
 Can I make Earls by three and three,
To run before and ride behind
 And serve the sons o' my body."

"And what care I for your row-foot earls,
 Or all the s...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Man of Laws Tale

...*
But what she was she would to no man say
For foul nor fair, although that she should dey.* *die

She said, she was so mazed in the sea,
That she forgot her minde, by her truth.
The Constable had of her so great pity
And eke his wife, that they wept for ruth:* *pity
She was so diligent withoute slouth
To serve and please every one in that place,
That all her lov'd, that looked in her face.

The Constable and Dame Hermegild his wife
Were Pagans, and that country every where;
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by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Plea of the Simla Dancers

...Simla years,
Shall plague you with unbidden sentiment --
 Babbling of kisses, laughter, love, and tears.

So shall you mazed amid old memories stand,
 So shall you toil, and shall accomplish nought,
And ever in your ears a phantom Band
 Shall blare away the staid official thought.
Wherefore -- and ere this awful curse he spoken,
 Cast out your swarthy sacrilegious train,
And give -- ere dancing cease and hearts be broken --
 Give us our ravished ball-room back again!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Triumph Of Chastity

...e_362>[Pg 362]Such earnest war; all drew them to the heightTo see what 'mazed their hearts and dimm'd their sight.Victorious Love a threatening dart did showHis right hand held; the other bore a bow,The string of which he drew just by his ear;No leopard could chase a frighted deer(Free, or broke loose) with quicker speed...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body

...fied
Sprawling desires, shapeless, perverse, denied.
Finger with finger wreathes; we love, and gape,
Fantastic shape to mazed fantastic shape,
Straggling, irregular, perplexed, embossed,
Grotesquely twined, extravagantly lost
By crescive paths and strange protuberant ways
From sanity and from wholeness and from grace.
How can love triumph, how can solace be,
Where fever turns toward fever, knee toward knee?
Could we but fill to harmony, and dwell
Simple as our thought and as ...Read more of this...
by Brooke, Rupert

Turns And Movies: Dancing Adairs

...ur heart's great void of silence. . . 
O sweet and soothing end for a life of whirling! 
Now I am still, whose life was mazed with motion. 
Now I sink into you, for love of sleep....Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad

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