Famous Recur Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Epistle To Augusta

...ase pain.

Perhaps the workings of defiance stir
Within me,—or perhaps of cold despair,
Brought on when ills habitually recur,— 
Perhaps a kinder clime, or purer air,
(For even to this may change of soul refer,
And with light armour we may learn to bear,)
Have taught me a strange quiet, which was not
The chief companion of a calmer lot.

I feel almost at times as I have felt
In happy childhood; trees, and flowers, and brooks,
Which do remember me of where I dwelt,
Ere my youn...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)


Gilbert

...ns,
And sends his blood fast flowing,
And Fancy's fervour warms the thoughts
Now in his bosom glowing. 

Those thoughts recur to early love,
Or what he love would name, 
Though haply Gilbert's secret deeds 
Might other title claim.
Such theme not oft his mind absorbs, 
He to the world clings fast,
And too much for the present lives, 
To linger o'er the past. 

But now the evening's deep repose 
Has glided to his soul;
That moonlight falls on Memory, 
And shows her fading scro...Read more of this...
by Bronte, Charlotte

Hymn To The Penates

...ous rites put down,
He fitliest, who for FREEDOM lived and died,
The friend of humankind. Then did your feasts
Frequent recur and blameless; and when came
The solemn festival, whose happiest rites
Emblem'd EQUALITY, the holiest truth!
Crown'd with gay garlands were your statues seen,
To you the fragrant censer smok'd, to you
The rich libation flow'd: vain sacrifice!
For nor the poppy wreath nor fruits nor wine.
Ye ask, PENATES! nor the altar cleans'd
With many a mystic form; ...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert

Invocation

...ilienne,
Tania, Eunice: this is for everyone
who marks the distance on a calendar
from what's less likely each year to "recur."
Our saved-for-now lives are life sentences
-- which we prefer to the alternative....Read more of this...
by Hacker, Marilyn

Juvenilia An Ode to Natural Beauty

...re, 
Thy paths my pilgrimage, my sense a lyre 
Aeolian for thine every breath to stir; 
Oft when her full-blown periods recur, 
To see the birth of day's transparent moon 
Far from cramped walls may fading afternoon 
Find me expectant on some rising lawn; 
Often depressed in dewy grass at dawn, 
Me, from sweet slumber underneath green boughs, 
Ere the stars flee may forest matins rouse, 
Afoot when the great sun in amber floods 
Pours horizontal through the steaming woods 
An...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan


Mary smith

...entally to show
That I was quite in earnest when I was Mary's beau.

How often now those sights, those pleasant sights, recur again:
The little township that was all the world I knew of then--
The meeting-house upon the hill, the tavern just beyond,
Old deacon Packard's general store, the sawmill by the pond,
The village elms I vainly sought to conquer in my quest
Of that surpassing trophy, the golden oriole's nest.
And, last of all those visions that come back from long ago,...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

The Bride of Abydos

...Memory;" a poem so well known as to render a reference almost superfluous; but to whose pages all will be delighted to recur. 

(43) "And airy tongues that syllable men's names." — MILTON....Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Man-Moth

...annot tell the rate at which he travels backwards.

 Each night he must
be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams.
Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie
his rushing brain. He does not dare look out the window,
for the third rail, the unbroken draught of poison,
runs there beside him. He regards it as a disease
he has inherited the susceptibility to. He has to keep 
his hands in his pockets, as others must wear mufflers.

 If you catch...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth

The Tower

...abyrinth out of pride,
Cowardice, some silly over-subtle thought
Or anything called conscience once;
And that if memory recur, the sun's
Under eclipse and the day blotted out.

 III

It is time that I wrote my will;
I choose upstanding men
That climb the streams until
The fountain leap, and at dawn
Drop their cast at the side
Of dripping stone; I declare
They shall inherit my pride,
The pride of people that were
Bound neither to Cause nor to State.
Neither to slaves that were...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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