Famous Mime Poems by Famous Poets

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

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In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105. To-night ungatherd let us leave

by Alfred Lord Tennyson
 To-night ungather'd let us leave 
This laurel, let this holly stand:
We live within the stranger's land,
And strangely falls our Christmas-eve.
Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows:
There in due time the woodbine blows,
The violet comes, but we are gone.
No more shall wayward grief abuse
The genial hour with mask and mime;
For change of place, like growth of time,
Has...Read more of this...

Dream Song 47: April Fools Day or St Mary of Egypt

by John Berryman
 -”Thass a funny title, Mr Bones.
-”When down she saw her feet, sweet fish, on the threshold,
she considered her fair shoulders
and all them hundreds who have them, all
the more who to her mime thickened & maled
from the supple stage,

and seeing her feet, in a visit, side by side
paused on the sill of The Tomb, she shrank: 'No.
They are not worthy,
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