Famous Rekindled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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When Cold in the Earth

by Thomas Moore
 When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved, 
Be his faults and his follies forgot by thee then; 
Or, if from their slumber the veil be removed, 
Weep o'er them in silence, and close it again. 
And oh! if 'tis pain to remember how far 
From the pathways of light he was tempted to roam, 
Be...Read more of this...

A winged spark doth soar about --

by Emily Dickinson
 A winged spark doth soar about --
I never met it near
For Lightning it is oft mistook
When nights are hot and sere --

Its twinkling Travels it pursues
Above the Haunts of men --
A speck of Rapture -- first perceived
By feeling it is gone --
Rekindled by some action quaint...Read more of this...

eight roundels

by Rg Gregory
 (roundel: variation of the rondeau
consisting of three stanzas of three
lines each, linked together with but
two rhymes and a refrain at the end
of the first and third group)



1.
the blind rose

today's fullness is tomorrow's gone
(the next day after no one knows)
last year's dream now feeds upon
 what blindly grows

imagine if you like a rose
on which no likely sun has shone
a darkness...Read more of this...

Cliche Came Out of its Cage

by C S Lewis
 1

You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. 
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House 
Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes, 
And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes, 
Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses 
To pay where due the glory of...Read more of this...

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