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Famous Ruminating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Milton, John
...his fatal guile 
Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass 
Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat, 
Or bedward ruminating; for the sun, 
Declined, was hasting now with prone career 
To the ocean isles, and in the ascending scale 
Of Heaven the stars that usher evening rose: 
When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood, 
Scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad. 
O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold! 
Into our room of bliss thus high advanced 
Crea...Read more of this...



by Hardy, Thomas
...Under a daisied bank 
There stands a rich red ruminating cow, 
 And hard against her flank 
A cotton-hooded milkmaid bends her brow. 

 The flowery river-ooze 
Upheaves and falls; the milk purrs in the pail; 
 Few pilgrims but would choose 
The peace of such a life in such a vale. 

 The maid breathes words--to vent, 
It seems, her sense of Nature's scenery, 
 Of whose life, sentiment, 
And esse...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...st. 
 A strange weird world such forest was to thee, 
 Where mingled truth and dreams in mystery; 
 There leaned old ruminating pines, and there 
 The giant elms, whose boughs deformed and bare 
 A hundred rough and crooked elbows made; 
 And in this sombre group the wind had swayed, 
 Nor life—nor death—but life in death seemed found. 
 The cresses drink—the water flows—and round 
 Upon the slopes the mountain rowans meet, 
 And 'neath the brushwood plant their gna...Read more of this...

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