Famous Reveling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl

...ght
As e'er from Lethe's wave was quaff'd;
From my despairing heart to charm
The Image of the fairest form
That e'er my reveling eyes beheld,
That e'er my wandering fancy spell'd.
In vain! away I cannot chace
The melting softness of that face,
The beaminess of those bright eyes,
That breast--earth's only Paradise.
My sight will never more be blest;
For all I see has lost its zest:
Nor with delight can I explore,
The Classic page, or Muse's lore.
Had she but known how beat my ...Read more of this...
by Keats, John


Genesis

...torn, 
Your lean arms bruised to the bone. 

Perhaps 'twas the slain beast's blood 
We drank, or a root we ate, 
Or our reveling evening bath 
In the fall by the garden gate, 
But you turned to a witching thing, 
Side-glancing, and frightened me; 
You purred like a panther's cub, 
You sighed like a shell from the sea. 

We knelt. I caressed your hair 
By the light of the leaping fire: 
Your fierce eyes blinked with smoke, 
Pine-fumes, that enhanced desire. 
I helped to unbrai...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

King Arthurs Men Have Come Again

...ve come again, 
I meet them in the street. 
Stern but in this — no way of thorns 
Shall snare the children's feet. 
The reveling foemen wreak but waste, 
A sodden poisonous band. 
Fierce Cromwell builds the flower-bright towns, 
And a more sunlit land!

And Lincoln's men have come again. 
Up from the South he flayed, 
The grandsons of his foes arise 
In his own cause arrayed. 
They rise for freedom and clean laws 
High laws, that shall endure. 
Our God establishes his arm 
An...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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