Famous Ponderings Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Inspiration

...ore than the labours of our art,
More than our wisdom can impart,
Thine idle ecstasy hath taught.


Lost long in solemn ponderings,
With the blind shepherd mind for guide,
The uncreated joy in you
Hath lifted up my heart unto
The morning stars in their first pride,
And the angelic joys that glide
High upon heaven-uplifted wings....Read more of this...
by Russell, George William


The Auction Sale

...thered and what hopes are dead!"

Oh, woman dear, and were you sweet and glad
Over the lining of your little nest!
What ponderings and proud ideas you had!
What visions of a shrine of peace and rest!
For there's his easy-chair upon the rug,
His reading-lamp, his pipe-rack on the wall,
All that you could devise to make him snug --
And yet you could not hold him with it all.

Ah, patient heart, what homelike joys you planned
To stay him by the dull domestic flame!
Those silken ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

To Flowers From Italy in Winter

...Sunned in the South, and here to-day; 
 --If all organic things 
Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say, 
 What are your ponderings? 

How can you stay, nor vanish quite 
 From this bleak spot of thorn, 
And birch, and fir, and frozen white 
 Expanse of the forlorn? 

Frail luckless exiles hither brought! 
 Your dust will not regain 
Old sunny haunts of Classic thought 
 When you shall waste and wane; 

But mix with alien earth, be lit 
 With frigid Boreal flame, 
And not a si...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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