Famous Plovers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by D. H. Lawrence
 Somewhere the long mellow note of the blackbird
Quickens the unclasping hands of hazel, 
Somewhere the wind-flowers fling their heads back,
Stirred by an impetuous wind. Some ways’ll 
All be sweet with white and blue violet.
(Hush now, hush. Where am I?—Biuret—)

On the green wood’s edge a shy girl hovers 
From out of the hazel-screen on to the grass, 
Where wheeling and...Read more of this...

Loves Blindness

by Alfred Austin
 Now do I know that Love is blind, for I 
Can see no beauty on this beauteous earth, 
No life, no light, no hopefulness, no mirth, 
Pleasure nor purpose, when thou art not nigh. 
Thy absence exiles sunshine from the sky, 
Seres Spring's maturity, checks Summer's birth, 
Leaves linnet's pipe as sad as plover's cry, 
And makes me in...Read more of this...

Nature

by George Herbert
 the yellow legged plovers live at the university and stare down
pale students who dare to walk near them

we like them

they are the smartest things around with their brown caps and stiffish know-it-all walk
god, don't they look like the newly arrived so proud to be here, 

and busy, 

the plovers should have keys and a whistle on a lanyard each...Read more of this...

Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves

by William Butler Yeats
 Three Voices [together]. Hurry to bless the hands that play,
The mouths that speak, the notes and strings,
O masters of the glittering town!
O! lay the shrilly trumpet down,
Though drunken with the flags that sway
Over the ramparts and the towers,
And with the waving of your wings.

First Voice. Maybe they linger by the way.
One gathers up his purple gown;
One leans and mutters...Read more of this...

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