Famous Millet Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Millet poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous millet poems. These examples illustrate what a famous millet poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free
Heaven awhile, for all the wrath of waking
Wind and sea.
Bright with glad mad rapture, fierce with glee,
Laughs the moon, borne on past cloud's o'ertaking
Fast, it seems, as wind or sail can flee.
One blown sail beneath her, hardly making
Forth, wild-winged ...Read more of this...
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Naidu, Sarojini
...ile merry stars laugh in the sky?
Alas! alas! my lord is dead!
Ah, who will ease my bitter pain?
He went to seek a millet-grain
In the rich farmer's granary shed;
They caught him in a baited snare,
And slew my lover unaware:
Alas! alas! my lord is dead.
O little deer, why dost thou moan,
Hid in thy forest-bower alone?
Alas! alas! my lord is dead!
Ah! who will quiet my lament?
At fall of eventide he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter t...Read more of this...
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Milosz, Czeslaw
...t knowing it,
That I discovered, late, its salutary aim,
In this and only this I find salvation.
They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds
To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds.
I put this book here for you, who once lived
So that you should visit us no more....Read more of this...
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Smart, Christopher
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Let Hashum rejoice with Moon-Trefoil.
Let Netophah rejoice with Cow-Wheat.
Let Chephirah rejoice with Millet.
Let Beeroth rejoice with Sea-Buckthorn.
Let Kirjath-arim rejoice with Cacalianthemum.
Let Hadid rejoice with Capsicum Guiney Pepper.
Let Senaah rejoice with Bean Cape.
Let Kadmiel rejoice with Hemp-Agrimony.
Let Shobai rejoice with Arbor Molle.
Let Hatita rejoice with Millefolium Yarrow.
Let Ziha rejoic...Read more of this...
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Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory
...A little breeze blew over the sea,
And it came from far away,
Across the fields of millet and rice,
All warm with sunshine and sweet with spice,
It lifted his curls and kissed him thrice,
As upon the deck he lay.
It said, "Oh, idle upon the sea,
Awake and with sleep have done,
Haul up the widest sail of the prow,
And come with me to the rice fields now,
She longs, oh, how can I tell you how,
...Read more of this...
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Fu, Du
...re round pool beside tree Whistling north wind strong Think of things trouble hundred worry Rely know grain millet harvest Already perceive grain press pour 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 us...Read more of this...
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Fu, Du
...me long far travel Hand in each have carry Pour jug cloudy combine clear Bitter decline wine taste thin Millet field no person farm Soldier transform already no rest Children furthest east campaigning Ask for elders sing Difficult ashamed deep feeling Song finish face heaven sigh Everyone present cry freely The flock of chickens starts to call wildly, As guests arrive, the chickens begin to figh...Read more of this...
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Fu, Du
...e cloud Go horse come ox no longer distinguish Muddy Jing clear Wei how now distinguish Grain head grow ear millet ear black Farmer field wife without news City in ten litres rice exchange quilt silk Agree better consider both mutual worth Ceaseless wind and lengthy rain swirl together this autumn, The four seas and eight deserts are covered by one cloud. A horse going, an ox coming, cannot be distinguished,...Read more of this...
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Kipling, Rudyard
...oolish people were they,
They went down to the cornland
To teach the farmers to play.
"Our fathers frisked in the millet,
Our fathers skipped in the wheat,
Our fathers hung from the branches,
Our fathers danced in the street.
"Then came the terrible farmers,
Nothing of play they knew,
Only. . .they caught our fathers
And set them to labour too!
"Set them to work in the cornland
With ploughs and sickles and flails,
Put them in mud-walled prisons
A...Read more of this...
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Fu, Du
...mber Hu people tall nosed move great numbers Yellow river west bank be my Shu Wish must supply home without millet Wish expel common people respect king Equal one chariot book abandon gold jade On the north bank of the Yellow River, west of the sea, is an army, Hammered drums and sounded bells are heard beneath the sky. The armoured horses cry out loud, I cannot tell their number, The high-nosed tribe of Hu a...Read more of this...
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Fu, Du
...answer be not finish Boys girls spread out alcohol Night rain cut spring chives New cooked rice mix golden millet Host say meet hard One cup repeat ten cups Ten cups also not drunk Feel your friendship long Tomorrow separate mountain mountain Human affairs two boundless and indistinct We've lived our lives and have not seen each other, We've been just like the stars of Shen and Shang. Oh what an...Read more of this...
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