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Famous Resorts Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Frost, Robert
...alls, perch on perch;

Sure that though not a star of death and birth,
So not to be compared, perhaps, in worth
To such resorts of life as Mars and Earth—

Though not, I say, a star of death and sin,
It yet has poles, and only needs a spin
To show its worldly nature and begin

To chafe and shuffle in my calloused palm
And run off in strange tangents with my arm,
As fish do with the line in first alarm.

Such as it is, it promises the prize
Of the one world complete in any...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
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The Countess never toiled at all;
She begged for coin when she was small,
And later, in the ancient fashion,
In gay resorts she peddled passion.|
But now to noble rank arrived,
(Tom wed the old Count she contrived)
Her youthful lover, lounging there,
Is hirsute as a teddy-bear.

The Countess will be honoured when
She dies past three-score years and ten.
The washer-women will wear out
With labour fifty years about . . .
Yet as the two look at each o...Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...metimes the airy synod bends,
And the mighty choir descends,
And the brains of men thenceforth,
In crowded and in still resorts,
Teem with unwonted thoughts.
As when a shower of meteors
Cross the orbit of the earth,
And, lit by fringent air,
Blaze near and far.
Mortals deem the planets bright
Have slipped their sacred bars,
And the lone seaman all the night
Sails astonished amid stars.

Beauty of a richer vein,
Graces of a subtler strain,
Unto men these moon-men l...Read more of this...

by Moore, Thomas
...Oh, banquet not in those shining bowers, 
Where Youth resorts, but come to me, 
For mine's a garden of faded flowers, 
More fit for sorrow, for age, and thee. 
And there we shall have our feast of tears, 
And many a cup in silence pour; 
Our guests, the shades of former years, 
Our toasts, to lips that bloom no more. 

There, while the myrtle's withering boughs 
Their lifeless leaves around us shed, 
We...Read more of this...

by Watts, Isaac
...light in ordinances of worship; or, God present in his churches.

My soul, how lovely is the place
To which thy God resorts!
'Tis heav'n to see his smiling face,
Though in his earthly courts.

There the great Monarch of the skies
His saving power displays,
And light breaks in upon our eyes
With kind and quick'ning rays.

With his rich gifts the heav'nly Dove
Descends and fills the place,
While Christ reveals his wondrous love,
And sheds abroad his grace.

Ther...Read more of this...



by Herbert, George
...ce on earth, to take possession.
I straight returned, and knowing his great birth, 
Sought him accordingly in great resorts; 
In cities, theaters, gardens, parks, and courts; 
At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth 
Of thieves and murderers; there I him espied, 
Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died....Read more of this...

by Cowper, William
...poetic pains
Which only poets know. The shifts and turns,
Th' expedients and inventions multiform
To which the mind resorts in chase of terms
Thought apt, yet coy, and difficult to win,
T' arrest the fleeting images that fill
The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast,
And force them sit, till he has pencill'd off
A faithful likeness of the forms he views;
Then to dispose his copies with such art
That each may find its most propitious light,
And shine by situation hardly ...Read more of this...

by Schwartz, Delmore
...se, irresistible and insistent
 action,
Be scattered like the sand is, purposely and relentlessly,
Living in the summer resorts of the dead endlessly....Read more of this...

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