Famous Pulsation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Grave

...heretofore—
the tortoise-shell scourges about the feet of the cliffs, in motion
 beneath them;
and the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of
 bell-bouys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
 dropped things are bound to sink—
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
 consciousness....Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne


After the Engagement

...To Joe---and he gave me the ring---

I felt such a ***** sensation.
I seemed to go into a trance,
Away from the music's pulsation,
Away from the lights and the dance.
And the wind o'er the wild prairie
Seemed blowing strong and free,
And it seemed not Joe, but Harry
Who was standing there close to me.

And the funniest feverish feeling
Went up from my feet to my head,
With little chills after it stealing---
And my hands got as numb as the dead.
A moment, and then it was over:...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Charmides

...ns
Pierced through and through his wild and whirling brain,
And his nerves thrilled like throbbing violins
In exquisite pulsation, and the pain
Was such sweet anguish that he never drew
His lips from hers till overhead the lark of warning flew.

They who have never seen the daylight peer
Into a darkened room, and drawn the curtain,
And with dull eyes and wearied from some dear
And worshipped body risen, they for certain
Will never know of what I try to sing,
How long the last...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue

...ng remaining distant
and then finally, the downdriving light
boiling over it at every step,

bearing on itself a bright pulsation,
which in the blond ran shyly to the back.
But suddenly the shade was deep,
and nearby eyes lay gazing

from a clear new unselfconscious face,
which, as in a portrait, lived intensely
in the instant things split off again:
first there forever, and then not at all....Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea

...ears, may then by them be said;
The sky o’erarches here—we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,

We feel the long pulsation—ebb and flow of endless motion; 
The tones of unseen mystery—the vague and vast suggestions of the briny
 world—the liquid-flowing syllables, 
The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm, 
The boundless vista, and the horizon far and dim, are all here,
And this is Ocean’s poem. 

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Then falter not, O book! fulfil your dest...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


In Memoriam A. H. H.

...o, as a dove when up she springs
   To bear thro' Heaven a tale of woe,
   Some dolorous message knit below
The wild pulsation of her wings;
 
Like her I go; I cannot stay;
   I leave this mortal ark behind,
   A weight of nerves without a mind,
And leave the cliffs, and haste away
 
O'er ocean-mirrors rounded large,
   And reach the glow of southern skies,
   And see the sails at distance rise,
And linger weeping on the marge,
 
And saying; `Comes he thus, my ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Locksley Hall

...dness? I will turn that earlier page.
Hide me from my deep emotion, O thou wondrous Mother-Age! 

Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before the strife,
When I heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life; 

Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield,
Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, 

And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn,
Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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