Famous Plaintively Poems by Famous Poets

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

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In The Vaulted Way

...In the vaulted way, where the passage turned 
To the shadowy corner that none could see,
You paused for our parting, - plaintively:
Though overnight had come words that burned 
My fond frail happiness out of me.

And then I kissed you, - despite my thought
That our spell must end when reflection came
On what you had deemed me, whose one long aim 
Had been to serve you; that what I sought 
Lay not in a heart that could breathe such blame.

But yet I kissed you: whereon you ag...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


My Typewriter

...would ply a pen when I
Was hoary a a Druid;
But as I scratch my silver thatch
My battered old Corona
Calls out to me as plaintively
As dying Desdemona.

"For old time's sake give me a break:
To you I've been as loyal
As ever could an Underwood,
Or Remington or Royal.
The globe we've spanned together and
Two million words, maybe,
For you I've tapped - it's time you rapped
A rhyme or two for me.

"I've seen you sit and smoke and spit
With expletives profane,
Then tear with rage...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Ballad Of The Ice-Worm Cocktail

...was "keeping something back."
A clammy sweat was on his brow, and pallid as a sheet:
"I feel I must be going now," he'd plaintively repeat.
Aye, though with drinks and smokes galore, they tempted him to stay,
With sudden bolt he gained the door, and made his get-away.

And ere next night his story was the talk of Dawson Town,
But gone and reft of glory was the wrathful Major Brown;
For that ice-worm (so they told him) of such formidable size
Was - a stick of stained spaghetti...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

To Robert Nichols

...ed him with cherries.”)


Here by a snowbound river 
In scrapen holes we shiver, 
And like old bitterns we 
Boom to you plaintively: 
Robert, how can I rhyme
Verses for your desire— 
Sleek fauns and cherry-time, 
Vague music and green trees, 
Hot sun and gentle breeze, 
England in June attire,
And life born young again, 
For your gay goatish brute 
Drunk with warm melody 
Singing on beds of thyme 
With red and rolling eye,
Waking with wanton lute 
All the Devonian plain, 
Lip...Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

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