Famous Noting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Gustav Richter

...and I, as thought,
Could hear a Presence think as he walked
Between the boxes pinching off leaves,
Looking for bugs and noting values,
With an eye that saw it all: --
"Homer, oh yes! Pericles, good.
Caesar Borgia, what shall be done with it?
Dante, too much manure, perhaps.
Napoleon, leave him awhile as yet.
Shelley, more soil. Shakespeare, needs spraying --"
Clouds, eh! --...Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee


Julian and Maddalo (excerpt)

...y never own such leaden laws)
Which break a teachless nature to the yoke:
Mine is another faith"--thus much I spoke
And noting he replied not, added: "See
This lovely child, blithe, innocent and free;
She spends a happy time with little care,
While we to such sick thoughts subjected are
As came on you last night. It is our will
That thus enchains us to permitted ill.
We might be otherwise. We might be all
We dream of happy, high, majestical.
Where is the love, beauty, and tru...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Marriage Bells

...fears to breathe, to speak, 
Lest the rare, subtle spell dissolve perchance. 
But he upon that floral head looks down, 
Noting the misty eyes, the grave sweet brow-- 
Doubts if her bliss be perfect as his own, 
And dedicates anew with inward vow 
His soul unto her service, to repay 
Richly the sacrifice she yields this day....Read more of this...
by Lazarus, Emma

Ninetieth Birthday

...You go up the long track
That will take a car, but is best walked
On slow foot, noting the lichen
That writes history on the page
Of the grey rock. Trees are about you
At first, but yield to the green bracken,
The nightjars house: you can hear it spin
On warm evenings; it is still now
In the noonday heat, only the lesser
Voices sound, blue-fly and gnat
And the stream's whisper. As the road climbs,
You will pause for breath and the far s...Read more of this...
by Thomas, R S

On a Fine Morning

...Whence comes Solace?--Not from seeing 
What is doing, suffering, being, 
Not from noting Life's conditions, 
Nor from heeding Time's monitions; 
 But in cleaving to the Dream, 
 And in gazing at the gleam 
 Whereby gray things golden seem. 

II 

Thus do I this heyday, holding 
Shadows but as lights unfolding, 
As no specious show this moment 
With its irised embowment; 
 But as nothing other than 
 Part of a benignant plan; 
 Proof that ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


Passage to India

...tunes, calumniators—behold him a prisoner, chain’d, 
Behold his dejection, poverty, death.

(Curious, in time, I stand, noting the efforts of heroes; 
Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death? 
Lies the seed unreck’d for centuries in the ground? Lo! to God’s due occasion, 
Uprising in the night, it sprouts, blooms, 
And fills the earth with use and beauty.)

10
Passage indeed, O soul, to primal thought! 
Not lands and seas alone—thy own clear freshness, 
The ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Peekabo I Almost See You

...ular, so you go
to the oculist,
And of all your friends he is the joculist,
So over his facetiousness let us skim,
Only noting that he has been waiting for you ever since
you said Good evening to his grandfather clock under
the impression that it was him,
And you look at his chart and it says SHRDLU QWERTYOP,
and you say Well, why SHRDNTLU QWERTYOP? and he
says one set of glasses won't do.
You need two.
One for reading Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and
Keats's "Endymion"...Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

Self-Dependence

...joy the stars perform their shining,
And the sea its long moon-silver'd roll;
For self-poised they live, nor pine with noting
All the fever of some differing soul.

'Bounded by themselves, and unregardful
In what state God's other works may be,
In their own tasks all their powers pouring,
These attain the mighty life you see.'

O air-born voice! long since, severely clear,
A cry like thine in mine own heart I hear:
'Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,
Who finds himself,...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

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