Famous Noisily Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Childhood

by Richard Aldington
 I 

The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood 
Put me out of love with God. 
I can't believe in God's goodness; 
I can believe 
In many avenging gods. 
Most of all I believe 
In gods of bitter dullness, 
Cruel local gods 
Who scared my childhood. 

II 

I've seen people put 
A chrysalis in a match-box, 
"To see," they...Read more of this...

The Muses Mirror

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 EARLY one day, the Muse, when eagerly bent on adornment,
Follow'd a swift-running streamlet, the quietest nook by it seeking.
Quickly and noisily flowing, the changeful surface distorted
Ever her moving form; the goddess departed in anger.
Yet the stream call'd mockingly after her, saying: "What, truly!
Wilt thou not view, then, the truth, in my mirror so clearly depicted?"
But she already was far...Read more of this...

Poetry For Supper

by R S Thomas
 'Listen, now, verse should be as natural 
As the small tuber that feeds on muck 
And grows slowly from obtuse soil 
To the white flower of immortal beauty.' 

'Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer 
Said once about the long toil 
That goes like blood to the poem's making? 
Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, 
Limp as bindweed,...Read more of this...

For Osip Mandelstam

by Anna Akhmatova
 And the town is frozen solid in a vice,
Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass.
Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice,
the painted sleighs and I, together, pass.
And over St Peter’s there are poplars, crows
there’s a pale green dome there that glows,
dim in the sun-shrouded dust.
The field of heroes lingers in my thought,
Kulikovo’s barbarian battleground.
The frozen poplars, like glasses for a...Read more of this...

River And Sea

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 Under the light of the silver moon
We two sat, when our hearts were young; 
The night was warm with the breath of June, 
And loud from the meadow the cricket sung, 
And darker and deeper, oh, love, than the sea, 
Were your dear eyes, as they beamed to me.

The moon hung clear, and the night was still: 
The waters...Read more of this...

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