Famous Mein Poems by Famous Poets

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

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1. Song—Handsome Nell

...y breast,
 I’ll love my handsome Nell.


As bonie lasses I hae seen,
 And mony full as braw;
But, for a modest gracefu’ mein,
 The like I never saw.


A bonie lass, I will confess,
 Is pleasant to the e’e;
But, without some better qualities,
 She’s no a lass for me.


But Nelly’s looks are blythe and sweet,
 And what is best of a’,
Her reputation is complete,
 And fair without a flaw.


She dresses aye sae clean and neat,
 Both decent and genteel;
And then there’s something i...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


12. Song—The Lass of Cessnock Banks

...ON Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;
 Could I describe her shape and mein;
Our lasses a’ she far excels,
 An’ she has twa sparkling roguish een.


She’s sweeter than the morning dawn,
 When rising Phoebus first is seen,
And dew-drops twinkle o’er the lawn;
 An’ she has twa sparkling roguish een.


She’s stately like yon youthful ash,
 That grows the cowslip braes between,
And drinks the stream with vigour fresh;
 An’ she has ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Dirge

..."Mein Herz, mein Herz ist traurig
Doch lustig leuchtet der Mai"


There's May amid the meadows,
There's May amid the trees;
Her May-time note the cuckoo
Sends forth upon the breeze.

Above the rippling river
May swallows skim and dart;
November and December
Keep watch within my heart.

The spring breathes in the breezes,
The woods with wood-notes ring,
And al...Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy

A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W

...III.
Lo! Health appears! celestial dame!
Complacent and serene,
With Hebe's mantle o'er her Frame,
With soul-delighting mein.

IX.
To mark the vale where London lies
With misty vapours crown'd,
Which cloud Aurora's thousand dyes,
And veil her charms around.

X.
Why, Phoebus, moves thy car so slow?
So slow thy rising ray?
Give us the famous town to view,
Thou glorious king of day!


XI.
For thee, Britannia, I resign
New-England's smiling fields;
To view again her charms divine...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis

April 26

...When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what my parents
spoke at home...Read more of this...
by Lehman, David


Custer

...host proceeds.
What though the foe outnumbers two to one? 
Boldness achieves what strength oft leaves undone; 
A daring mein will cause brute force to cower, 
And courage is the secret source of power.
As Custer's column wheels upon their sight
The frightened red men yield the untried field by flight.


XXXII.
Yet when these conquering heroes sink to rest, 
Dissatisfaction gnaws the leader's breast, 
For far away across vast seas of snows
Held prisoners still by hostile Arapa...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Goodbye!

...e makes your grave also.

Shrink not; your flesh is no more sweet 
Than flowers which daily blow and die; 
Nor are your mein and dress so neat, 
Nor half so pure your lucid eye; 
And, yet, by flowers and earth I swear 
You're neat and pure and sweet and fair....Read more of this...
by Aldington, Richard

IX. O Poverty! though from thy haggard eye..

...O POVERTY! though from thy haggard eye, 
Thy cheerless mein, of every charm bereft, 
Thy brow, that hope's last traces long have left, 
Vain Fortune's feeble sons with terror fly; 
Thy rugged paths with pleasure I attend; -- 
For Fancy, that with fairest dreams can bless; 
And Patience, in the Pall of Wretchedness, 
Sad-smiling, as the ruthless storms descend; 
And Piety, forgiving every wrong, 
And meek Content...Read more of this...
by Bowles, William Lisle

New Years Eve

...ound the way to do, --
"The simplest are the hardest ones, you know, -- 
"I give this song to you." 
And then she read:
Mein kind, wir waren Kinder,
Zei Kinder, jung und froh. 

* * * * * * * * * * 

But all the while a silent question stirred 
Within me, though I dared not speak the word: 
"Is it herself, and is she truly here,
"And was I dreaming when I heard
"That she was dead last year?
"Or was it true, and is she but a shade
"Who brings a fleeting joy to eye and ear, 
"C...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

The Burial Of The Dead

...u fear in a handful of dust.                              30
       Frisch weht der Wind
       Der Heimat zu
       Mein Irisch Kind,
       Wo weilest du?
  "You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
  "They called me the hyacinth girl."
  —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
  Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
  Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
  Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,                                    40
  Lo...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

The Waste Land

...shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 
 Frisch weht der Wind
 Der Heimat zu
 Mein Irisch Kind,
 Wo weilest du?
"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl."
––Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Oed' und leer das Me...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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