Famous Saner Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Carol of Harvest for 1867

..., for good, your deadly arms; 
Other the arms, the fields henceforth for you, or South or North, or East or West, 
With saner wars—sweet wars—life-giving wars. 

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Loud, O my throat, and clear, O soul! 
The season of thanks, and the voice of full-yielding;
The chant of joy and power for boundless fertility. 

All till’d and untill’d fields expand before me; 
I see the true arenas of my race—or first, or last, 
Man’s innocent and strong arenas. 

I see the Heroes at other toi...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free

...long upon the
 mind
 of man, 
The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;) 
Thee in thy larger, saner breeds of Female, Male—thee in thy athletes, moral,
 spiritual,
 South, North, West, East, 
(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear’d alike,
 forever
 equal;)
Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain; 
Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization (until which thy proudest material wealth and
 ci...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Channel Firing

...ndeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need)."

So down we lay again. "I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,"
Said one, "than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!"

And many a skeleton shook his head.
"Instead of preaching forty year,"
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
"I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer."

Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehe...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

Departure

...Gaels 

Must your wroth reasonings trade on lives like these, 
That are as puppets in a playing hand? - 
When shall the saner softer polities 
Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, 
And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand 
Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?"...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

Escape

...croon
On the muteness of the shore,
Silver-shattered in the moon.

"Come, let's quit this sorry strife,
Seek a sweeter, saner life,
Go so far, so very far
It just seems another star.
Go where joy and love are rife,
Go where peace and plenty are."

But he answered: "Brother, no,
To your isle I'll never go,
For the pity in my heart
Will not let me live apart
From God's world of want and woe:
I will stay and play my part,
Strive and suffer . . . Be it so."...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


James Simmons R.i.p

...sacred art of making poetry true

To suffering and love, to passion and remorse

And try to steer a flimsy world upon a saner course....Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

The Progress of Spring

...the heart of this most ancient realm 
A hateful voice be utter'd, and alarms 
Sounding 'To arms! to arms!' 

A simpler, saner lesson might he learn 
Who reads thy gradual process, Holy Spring. 
Thy leaves possess the season in their turn, 
And in their time thy warblers rise on wing. 
How surely glidest thou from March to May, 
And changest, breathing it, the sullen wind, 
Thy scope of operation, day by day, 
Larger and fuller, like the human mind ' 
Thy warmths from bud to b...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Sick God

...r hath he seemed the old! 

XI 

 Let men rejoice, let men deplore. 
The lurid Deity of heretofore 
 Succumbs to one of saner nod; 
 The Battle-god is god no more....Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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