Famous Nye Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Nye poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous nye poems. These examples illustrate what a famous nye poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...this fayre folk in her first age,
on sille,
The hapnest vnder heuen,
Kyng hyyghest mon of wylle;
Hit were now gret nye to neuen
So hardy a here on hille.
Wyle Nw Ygher watz so yghep that hit watz nwe cummen,
That day doubble on the dece watz the douth serued.
Fro the kyng watz cummen with knyyghtes into the halle,
The chauntrŽ of the chapel cheued to an ende,
Loude crye watz ther kest of clerkez and other,
Nowel nayted onewe, neuened ful ofte;
And sythen riche ...Read more of this...
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Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...You can't be, says a Palestinian Christian
on the first feast day after Ramadan.
So, half-and-half and half-and-half.
He sells glass. He knows about broken bits,
chips. If you love Jesus you can't love
anyone else. Says he.
At his stall of blue pitchers on the Via Dolorosa,
he's sweeping. The rubbed stones
feel holy. Dusting of powdered sugar
across faces...Read more of this...
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Nye, Naomi Shihab
...ay;
Half asleep and half awake,
While the birds went twittering by,
And nobody there my lone to share
But Nicholas Nye.
Nicholas Nye was lean and gray,
Lame of leg and old,
More than a score of donkey's years
He had been since he was foaled;
He munched the thistles, purple and spiked,
Would sometimes stoop and sigh,
And turn to his head, as if he said,
"Poor Nicholas Nye!"
Alone with his shadow he'd drowse in the meadow,
Lazily swinging his tail,
At break of...Read more of this...
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de la Mare, Walter
...to the same,
What that name might imply;
But his smile it was pensive and childlike,
As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
It was August the third,
And quite soft was the skies;
Which it might be inferred
That Ah Sin was likewise;
Yet he played it that day upon William
And me in a way I despise.
Which we had a small game,
And Ah Sin took a hand:
It was Euchre. The same
He did not understand;
But he smiled as he sat by the table,
With a smile that was childli...Read more of this...
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Harte, Bret
...
With swerd of justice the rulith prudently.
No Lord of Parys, Venyce, or Floraunce
In dignytie or honoure goeth to hym nye.
He is exampler, lood{.e}-ster, and guye;
Principall patrone and roose orygynalle,
Above all Maires as maister moost worthy:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all....Read more of this...
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Dunbar, William
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