Famous Pulsed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Andrea del Sarto

...in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.
Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know,
Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me,
Enter and take their place there sure enough,
Though they come back and cannot tell the world.
My works are nearer heaven, but I sit here.
The sudden blood of these men! at a word--
Praise them, it boils, or blame the...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Art

...In placid hours well-pleased we dream 
Of many a brave unbodied scheme. 
But form to lend, pulsed life create, 
What unlike things must meet and mate: 
A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; 
Sad patience--joyous energies; 
Humility--yet pride and scorn; 
Instinct and study; love and hate; 
Audacity--reverence. These must mate, 
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, 
To wrestle with the angel--Art....Read more of this...
by Melville, Herman

Custer

..., and tramp of myriad feet.



XXVII.
So flawless was the union of each part
The mighty column (moved as by one heart) 
Pulsed through the air, like some sad song well sung, 
Which gives delight, although the soul is wrung.
Farther and fainter to the sight and sound
The beautiful embodied poem wound; 
Till like a ribbon, stretched across the land
Seemed the long narrow line of that receding band.



XXVIII.
The lot of those who in the silence wait
Is harder than the fighting ...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Death Of A Naturalist

...re. The air was thick with a bass chorus.
Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked
On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:
The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat
Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.
I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings
Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew
That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it....Read more of this...
by Heaney, Seamus

Flame-Heart

...what months, what time of the mild year
We cheated school to have our fling at tops?
What days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with joy
Feasting upon blackberries in the copse?
Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days,
Even the sacred moments when we played,
All innocent of passion, uncorrupt,
At noon and evening in the flame-heart's shade.
We were so happy, happy, I remember,
Beneath the poinsettia's red in warm December....Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude


Prayer

...e room;
Let us see the giant face of night outside,
 Though vague as a moth’s wing is the gloom.


Rumour of the fierce-pulsed city far away
Breaks upon the peace that aureoles our rest,
Steeped in stillness as if some primeval day
 Hung drowsily o’er the water’s breast.


Shut the eyes that flame and hush the heart that burns:
In quiet we may hear the old primeval cry:
God gives wisdom to the spirit that upturns:
 Let us adore now, you and I.


Age on age is heaped about us ...Read more of this...
by Crashaw, Richard

The Dance At The Phoenix

...rbed the icy air; 
No watchman on his midnight round 
 Or traveller was there; 
But over All-Saints', high and bright, 
Pulsed to the music Sirius white, 
 The Wain by Bullstake Square. 

She knocked, but found her further stride 
 Checked by a sergeant tall: 
"Gay Granny, whence come you?" he cried; 
 "This is a private ball." 
--"No one has more right here than me! 
Ere you were born, man," answered she, 
 "I knew the regiment all!" 

"Take not the lady's visit ill!" 
 Upsp...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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