Famous Oncoming Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Cruelty and Love

...er ears, 
Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes 
And crouches low: then with wild spring 
Spurts from the terror of the oncoming 
To be choked back, the wire ring 
Her frantic effort throttling: 
Piteous brown ball of quivering fears! 

Ah soon in his large, hard hands she dies, 
And swings all loose to the swing of his walk. 
Yet calm and kindly are his eyes 
And ready to open in brown surprise 
Should I not answer to his talk 
Or should he my tears surmise. 

I hear his han...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.


Cruelty and Love

...ears,
Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes
And crouches low: then with wild spring
Spurts from the terror of _his_ oncoming
To be choked back, the wire ring
Her frantic effort throttling:
    Piteous brown ball of quivering fears!

Ah soon in his large, hard hands she dies,
And swings all loose to the swing of his walk.
Yet calm and kindly are his eyes
And ready to open in brown surprise
Should I not answer to his talk
Or should he my tears surmise.

I hear h...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Dear Reader

...r the one who wrapped my speckled fish.
You could be someone I passed on the street 
or the face behind the wheel of an oncoming car.

The sunlight flashes off your windshield,
and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,
I watch you diminish—my echo, my twin—
and vanish around a curve in this whip 
of a road we can't help traveling together....Read more of this...
by Collins, Billy

If Mary Had Known

...known, 
As she held him so closely, her own, 
That over the darkness and pain he would be 
The Conqueror hailed in all oncoming days, 
The world's hope and praise, 
And the garland of thorn, 
The symbol of mocking and scorn 
Would be a victorious diadem royally worn, 
Oh, I think that ineffable joy 
Must have flooded her soul as she bent o'er her wonderful Boy!...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Naught is thy body but a tent, Khayyam, thy soul is

...t, long home annihilation is.
When thy soul leaves the tent, the slaves arise and
strike it ere they pitch it for the oncoming soul.
299...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar


The Comedian As The Letter C

...ur dreams 
372 That makes them our dependent heirs, the heirs 
373 Of dreamers buried in our sleep, and not 
374 The oncoming fantasies of better birth. 
375 The apprentice knew these dreamers. If he dreamed 
376 Their dreams, he did it in a gingerly way. 
377 All dreams are vexing. Let them be expunged. 
378 But let the rabbit run, the cock declaim. 

379 Trinket pasticcio, flaunting skyey sheets, 
380 With Crispin as the tiptoe cozener? 
381 No, no: veracious pag...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

The Tale of the Tiger-Tree

...aneuvered, and turned.
Ten thousand man-hating tigers
Whirling down from the north, like a flood!
Ten thousand mammoths oncoming
From the south as avengers of blood!
Our child-queen was mourning, her magic was dead,
The roots of the Tiger Tree reeking with red.


IV

This is the tale of the Tiger Tree
A hundred times the height of a man,
Lord of the race since the world began.

We marched to the mammoths,
We pledged them our steel,
And scorning you, sang: —
"We are men,
We ar...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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