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Famous Pattered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
...der the eye of the golden moon.
From a stone seat,
Beneath a blossoming lime,
The man watched it.
And the spray pattered
On the dim grass at his feet.
The fountain tossed its water,
Up and up, like silver marbles.
Is that an arm he sees?
And for one moment
Does he catch the moving curve
Of a thigh?
The fountain gurgled and splashed,
And the man's face was wet.
Is it singing that he hears?
A song of playing at ball?
The moonlight shines on the straight colu...Read more of this...



by Kilmer, Joyce
...hopes and dreams,
They are the fabric of his mind.
Yet -- in a room above the store
There is a woman -- and a child
Pattered just now across the floor;
The shopman looked at him and smiled.
For, once he thrilled with high romance
And tuned to love his eager voice.
Like any cavalier of France
He wooed the maiden of his choice.
And now deep in his weary heart
Are sacred flames that whitely burn.
He has of Heaven's grace a part
Who loves, who is beloved in tu...Read more of this...

by Carroll, Lewis
...of yore. 

There was not one that spoke to us, 
Of all that thronged the street: 
So he sadly got into a 'bus, 
And pattered with his feet. 

They sent him word I had not gone 
(We know it to be true); 
If she should push the matter on, 
What would become of you? 

They gave her one, the gave me two, 
They gave us three or more; 
They all returned from him to you, 
Though they were mine before. 

If I or she should chance to be 
Involved in this affair, 
He trusts...Read more of this...

by Russell, George William
...Gone! the darkness flowed between
All the ancient wars of man.


While I paced the valley’s gloom
Where the rabbits pattered near,
Shone a temple and a tomb
With the legend carven clear:


“Time put by a myriad fates
That her day might dawn in glory;
Death made wide a million gates
So to close her tragic story.”...Read more of this...

by Lawrence, D. H.
...rable spaces of hoarse silence
Muffling my mind, as snow muffles the sounds that pass
Down the soiled street. We have pattered the lessons ceaselessly--

But the faces of the boys, in the brooding, yellow light
Have shone for me like a crowded constellation of stars,
Like full-blown flowers dimly shaking at the night,
Like floating froth on an ebbing shore in the moon.

Out of each star, dark, strange beams that disquiet:
In the open depths of each flower, dark rest...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...er, who stood by the golden gate;
The sexless singers of heaven chanted a fond farewell,
And the imps looked up as they pattered on the red-hot flags of hell.

Never was seen such an angel -- eyes of heavenly blue,
Features that shamed Apollo, hair of a golden hue;
The women simply adored him; his lips were like Cupid's bow;
But he never ventured to use them -- and so they voted him slow.

Till at last there came One Woman, a marvel of loveliness,
And she whispered to...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...not know!

When, by mad passion goaded,
We planned to hie away,
But, unforeboded,
The storm-shafts gray
So heavily down-pattered
That none could forthward go,
Our lives seemed shattered...
--We did not know!

When I found you, helpless lying,
And you waived my deep misprise,
And swore me, dying,
In phantom-guise
To wing to me when grieving,
And touch away my woe,
We kissed, believing...
--We did not know!

But though, your powers outreckoning,
You hold...Read more of this...

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