Famous Pulses Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Carol of Harvest for 1867

...
Now I awhile return to thee, O soil of Autumn fields, 
Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee, 
Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart, 
Tuning a verse for thee.

O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! 
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! 
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! 
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee. 

3
Ever upon this stage,
Is acted God’s calm, annual drama, 
Gorgeous processions, so...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


A Minor Poet

...rk, yours, not mine).
I must confess it; I can feel the pulse
A-beating at my heart, yet never knew
The throb of cosmic pulses. I lament
The death of youth's ideal in my heart;
And, to be honest, never yet rejoiced
In the world's progress--scarce, indeed, discerned;
(For still it seems that God's a Sisyphus
With the world for stone).
You shake your head. I'm base,
Ignoble? Who is noble--you or I?
I was not once thus? Ah, my friend, we are
As the Fates make us.
This time is th...Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy

Aurora Leigh (excerpts)

...stood straight and calm,
Her somewhat narrow forehead braided tight
As if for taming accidental thoughts
From possible pulses ; brown hair pricked with grey
By frigid use of life, (she was not old
Although my father's elder by a year)
A nose drawn sharply yet in delicate lines ;
A close mild mouth, a little soured about
The ends, through speaking unrequited loves
Or peradventure niggardly half-truths ;
Eyes of no colour, -- once they might have smiled,
But never, never have ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Endymion: Book III

...been grieving at this joyous hour
But even now most miserable old,
I saw thee, and my blood no longer cold
Gave mighty pulses: in this tottering case
Grew a new heart, which at this moment plays
As dancingly as thine. Be not afraid,
For thou shalt hear this secret all display'd,
Now as we speed towards our joyous task."

 So saying, this young soul in age's mask
Went forward with the Carian side by side:
Resuming quickly thus; while ocean's tide
Hung swollen at their backs, ...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Four Riddles

...ed negative -
Photographers love such. 

There comes a welcome summons - hope revives,
And fading eyes grow bright, and pulses quicken:
Incessant pop the corks, and busy knives
Dispense the tongue and chicken. 

Flushed with new life, the crowd flows back again:
And all is tangled talk and mazy motion -
Much like a waving field of golden grain,
Or a tempestuous ocean. 

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din a...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


Geraint And Enid

...shafted oaks, 
Three other horsemen waiting, wholly armed, 
Whereof one seemed far larger than her lord, 
And shook her pulses, crying, 'Look, a prize! 
Three horses and three goodly suits of arms, 
And all in charge of whom? a girl: set on.' 
'Nay,' said the second, 'yonder comes a knight.' 
The third, 'A craven; how he hangs his head.' 
The giant answered merrily, 'Yea, but one? 
Wait here, and when he passes fall upon him.' 

And Enid pondered in her heart and said, 
'I wi...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Gertrude of Wyoming

...hen o'er each heart th' idea stole,
(Perchance a while in joy's oblivion drown'd)
That come what may, while life's glad pulses roll,
Indissolubly thus should soul be knit to soul.

And in the visions of romantic youth,
What years of endless bliss are yet to flow!
But mortal pleasure, what art thou in truth?
The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!
And must I change my song? and must I show,
Sweet Wyoming! the day when thou art doom'd,
Guiltless, to mourn thy loveliest bow...Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas

Hymn Of Man

...he are not gods made men for a span,
But God, if a God there be, is the substance of men which is man.
Our lives are as pulses or pores of his manifold body and breath;
As waves of his sea on the shores where birth is the beacon of death.
We men, the multiform features of man, whatsoever we be,
Recreate him of whom we are creatures, and all we only are he.
Not each man of all men is God, but God is the fruit of the whole;
Indivisible spirit and blood, indiscernible body from ...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Locksley Hall

...pass'd in music out of sight. 

Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring,
And her whisper throng'd my pulses with the fulness of the Spring. 

Many an evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships,
And our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips. 

O my cousin, shallow-hearted! O my Amy, mine no more!
O the dreary, dreary moorland! O the barren, barren shore! 

Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung,
Puppet to a fat...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Loves Language

...e parent to a sigh –
Thus doth Love speak.

How does Love speak? 
By the uneven heart-throbs, and the freak
Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache, 
While new emotions, like strange barques, make
Along vein-channels their disturbing course; 
Still as the dawn, and with the dawn’s swift force –
Thus doth Love speak.

How does Love speak? 
In the avoidance of that which we seek –
The sudden silence and reserve when near –
The eye that glistens with an unshed tear –
The jo...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Music

...ower of rest,
Fain would I follow at daytime, music that calls to a quest.
Hark, how the galloping measure
Quickens the pulses of pleasure;
Gaily saluting the morn
With the long clear note of the hunting-horn
Echoing up from the valley,
Over the mountain side,--
Rally, you hunters, rally,
Rally, and ride!

Drink of the magical potion music has mixed with her wine,
Full of the madness of motion, joyful, exultant, divine!
Leave all your troubles behind you,
Ride where they neve...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

Pilates Wifes Dream

...bear, 
Thankful that none with me its sufferings share. 

Yet, Oh, for light ! one ray would tranquilise 
My nerves, my pulses, more than effort can; 
I'll draw my curtain and consult the skies: 
These trembling stars at dead of night look wan, 
Wild, restless, strange, yet cannot be more drear 
Than this my couch, shared by a nameless fear. 

All black­one great cloud, drawn from east to west, 
Conceals the heavens, but there are lights below; 
Torches burn in Jerusalem, and...Read more of this...
by Bronte, Charlotte

Rainy Season Love Song

...Heaven’s fire;
“The lightning’s in love with you darling; it is loving you so much,
That its warm electricity in you pulses wherever I may touch.
When I kiss your lips and your eyes, and your hands like twin flowers apart,
I know there is lightning, Frangepani, deep in the depths of your heart.”

The thunder rumbles about us, and I feel its triumphant note
As your warm arms steal around me; and I kiss your dusky throat;
“The thunder’s in love with you darling.   It h...Read more of this...
by Casely Hayford, Gladys May

Starting from Paumanok

...Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota; 
Chants going forth from the centre, from Kansas, and thence, equi-distant, 
Shooting in pulses of fire, ceaseless, to vivify all. 

4In the Year 80 of The States,
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air, 
Born here of parents born here, from parents the same, and their parents the
 same, 
I, now thirty-six years old, in perfect health, begin, 
Hoping to cease not till death. 

Creeds and schools in abeyance,
(Retiring...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Choir Invisible

...may I join the choir invisible 
Of those immortal dead who live again 
In minds made better by their presence; live 
In pulses stirred to generosity, 
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn 
For miserable aims that end with self, 
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, 
And with their mild persistence urge men's search 
To vaster issues. So to live is heaven: 
To make undying music in the world, 
Breathing a beauteous order that controls 
With growing sway the ...Read more of this...
by Eliot, George

The Gazelle

...Gazella Dorcas


Enchanted thing: how can two chosen words
ever attain the harmony of pure rhyme
that pulses through you as your body stirs?
Out of your forehead branch and lyre climb

and all your features pass in simile through
the songs of love whose words as light as rose-
petals rest on the face of someone who
has put his book away and shut his eyes:

to see you: tensed as if each leg were a gun
loaded with leaps but not fired while your neck
...Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria

The Princess (part 3)

...t the involuntary sigh 
Brake, as she smote me with the light of eyes 
That lent my knee desire to kneel, and shook 
My pulses, till to horse we got, and so 
Went forth in long retinue following up 
The river as it narrowed to the hills. 

I rode beside her and to me she said: 
'O friend, we trust that you esteemed us not 
Too harsh to your companion yestermorn; 
Unwillingly we spake.' 'No--not to her,' 
I answered, 'but to one of whom we spake 
Your Highness might have seeme...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

...A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.

I closed my lids, and kept them close,
And the balls like pulses beat;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.

The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Nor rot nor reek did they:
The look with which they looked on me
Had never passed away.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
...Read more of this...
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The Tale of the Tiger-Tree

...long."

Then we ate of the ravening Leaf
As our savage fathers of old.
No longer our wounds made us weak,
No longer our pulses were cold.
Though half of my troops were afoot,
(For the great who had borne them were slain)
We dreamed we were tigers, and leaped
And foamed with that vision insane.
We cried "We are soldiers of doom,
Doom,
Sabres of glory and doom."
We wreathed the king of the mammoths
In the tiger-leaves' terrible bloom.
We flattered the king of the mammoths,
Loud...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias

...lunt the curse 
Of Pallas, bear, and tho' I speak the truth
Believe I speak it, let thine own hand strike 
Thy youthful pulses into rest and quench 
The red God's anger, fearing not to plunge 
Thy torch of life in darkness, rather thou 
Rejoicing that the sun, the moon, the stars 
Send no such light upon the ways of men 
As one great deed.
Thither, my son, and there 
Thou, that hast never known the embrace of love 
Offer thy maiden life.
This useless hand! 
I felt one warm te...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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