Famous Praiseful Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Little Prayer

...me April blows;
Bronze wheat a-shimmer, purple shade of trees -
Let us be thankful, Lord of Life, for these!

Let us be praiseful, Sire, for simple sights; -
The blue smoke curling from a fire of peat;
Keen stars a-frolicking on frosty nights,
Prismatic pigeons strutting in a street;
Daisies dew-diamonded in smiling sward -
For simple sights let us be praiseful, Lord!

Let us be grateful, God, for health serene,
The hope to do a kindly deed each day;
The faith of fellowship, ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Back to the Border

...r passionate Youth!
   Why must we spend these lonely nights?
   The poets hardly speak the truth,—
   Despite their praiseful litany,
   His season is not all delights
   Nor every night an ecstasy!

   The very power and passion that make—
   Might make—his days one golden dream,
   How he must suffer for their sake!
   Till, in their fierce and futile rage,
   The baffled senses almost deem
   They might be happier in old age.

   Age that can find red roses ...Read more of this...
by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory

Beowulf (Modern English)

...that loyal companions should linger with him
in old age, when war comes soon,
the people should follow him. By these praiseful deeds
one ought to flourish in every tribe everywhere. (ll. 20-25)

Then Scyld turned himself away at his given hour—
faring full of greatness—into the covenant of the Lord.
Then they brought him to the briny beach,
his beloved retainers, just as he himself had bidden
while he still wielded words, the benefactor of the Scyldings—
the first ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Praise In Summer

...
Such savour's in this wrenching things awry.
Does sense so stale that it must needs derange
The world to know it? To a praiseful eye
Should it not be enough of fresh and strange
That trees grow green, and moles can course
 in clay,
And sparrows sweep the ceiling of our day?...Read more of this...
by Wilbur, Richard

The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp

...e king, whose chase is man, and wars his hunts. 
 
 "Some portion of your splendor back on me reflect, 
 Sing out in praiseful chains of melodious links! 
 Oh, throne, which I with bloody spoils have so bedecked, 
 Speak to your lord! Speak you, the first rose-crested Sphinx!" 
 
 Soon on the summons, once again was stillness broke, 
 For the ten figures, in a voice which all else drowned, 
 Parting their stony lips, alternatively spoke— 
 Spoke clearly, with a deep...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


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