Famous Raspberry Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Daisy

...And southward dreams the sea; 
And with the sea-breeze hand in hand 
Came innocence and she. 

Where 'mid the gorse the raspberry 
Red for the gatherer springs; 
Two children did we stray and talk 
Wise, idle, childish things. 

She listened with big-lipped surprise, 
Breast-deep 'mid flower and spine: 
Her skin was like a grape whose veins 
Run snow instead of wine. 

She knew not those sweet words she spake, 
Nor knew her own sweet way; 
But there's never a bird, so sweet a...Read more of this...
by Thompson, Francis


Georgic on Memory

...t others less exacting might forgo.

If memory's an elephant, then feed
the animal. Resist revision: the stand
of feral raspberry, contraband
fruit the crows stole, ferrying seed

for miles ... No. It was a broken hedge,
not beautiful, sunlight tacking
its leafy gut in loose sutures. Lacking
imagination, you'll take the pledge

to remember - not the sexy, new
idea of history, each moment
swamped in legend, liable to judgment
and erosion; still, an appealing view,

to draft ou...Read more of this...
by Belieu, Erin

How can you bear to look at the Neva?

...grieving one 
Since the time you appeared to me. 
The black angels' wings are sharp, 
Judgment Day is coming soon, 
And raspberry-colored bonfires bloom, 
Like roses, in the snow....Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

The Comedian As The Letter C

...eatre, 
92 In spite of hawk and falcon, green toucan 
93 And jay, still to the night-bird made their plea, 
94 As if raspberry tanagers in palms, 
95 High up in orange air, were barbarous. 
96 But Crispin was too destitute to find 
97 In any commonplace the sought-for aid. 
98 He was a man made vivid by the sea, 
99 A man come out of luminous traversing, 
100 Much trumpeted, made desperately clear, 
101 Fresh from discoveries of tidal skies, 
102 To whom oracular r...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

The Generations of Men

...ngs-- 
And see if you can reckon our cousinship. 
Why not take seats here on the cellar wall 
And dangle feet among the raspberry vines?" 
"Under the shelter of the family tree." 
"Just so--that ought to be enough protection." 
"Not from the rain. I think it's going to rain." 
"It's raining." 
"No, it's misting; let's be fair. 
Does the rain seem to you to cool the eyes?" 
The situation was like this: the road 
Bowed outward on the mountain half-way up, 
And disappeared and e...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


There was a young lady of Corsica

...
There was a young lady of Corsica,Who purchased a little brown saucy-cur;Which she fed upon ham, and hot raspberry jam,That expensive young lady of Corsica. ...Read more of this...
by Lear, Edward

White Flock

...ad since the time
You appeared before my eyes.
Sharp are black angels' wings,
The last judgment is coming soon,
And raspberry fires, like roses,
In the white snow bloom.



x x x

I do not count mortal days
Under the roof of a chilled empty building,
I'm reading the Apostles' words,
Words of Psalm-singer I am reading.
Sleet is fluffy, and stars turn blue,
And more marvelous is each meeting --
And in the Bible a leaf
On Song of Songs is sitting.



x x...Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

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