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Famous Satins Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...lled myself gladly that time any possible way.
Now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains,

The diaphanous satins of a January window
White as babies' bedding and glittering with dead breath. O ivory!

It must be a tusk there, a ghost column.
Can you not see I do not mind what it is.

Can you not give it to me?
Do not be ashamed--I do not mind if it is small.

Do not be mean, I am ready for enormity.
Let us sit down to it, one on either side, ...Read more of this...



by Goldsmith, Oliver
...h manners wondrous winning;
And never followed wicked ways,— 
Unless when she was sinning.

At church, in silks and satins new,
With hoop of monstrous size,
She never slumbered in her pew,— 
But when she shut her eyes.

Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The king himself has followed her,— 
When she has walked before.

But now her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all;
The doctors found, when she was dead,— 
Her last disorder ...Read more of this...

by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...I like to hear of wealth and gold, 
And El Doradoes in their glory; 
I like for silks and satins bold 
To sweep and rustle through a story.

The nightingale is sweet of song; 
The rare exotic smells divinely; 
And knightly men who stride along, 
The role heroic carry finely.

But then, upon the other hand, 
Our minds have got a way of running 
To things that aren't quite so grand, 
Which, maybe, we are best in shunning.

For some of u...Read more of this...

by Reeser, Jennifer
...ath to think.
This negligée is sable, but my choice
If black had been forbidden, would be pink:
The blood of ballet satins, quartz, the lover,
That cut from which I never could recover....Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...?" she sighed. "I beg you be my wife.
I stake big pay up Hunker way; some day I be so rich;
I make you shine in satins fine," said Riley Dooleyvitch.

"Some day you'll be so rich," she mocked; "that old pipe-dream don't go.
Who gets an option on this kid must have some coin to show.
You work your ground. When Spring comes round, our wedding bells will ring.
I'm on the square, and I'll take care of all the gold you bring."

So Riley Dooleyvitch ...Read more of this...



by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...br>

In Syria whilom dwelt a company
Of chapmen rich, and thereto sad* and true, *grave, steadfast
Clothes of gold, and satins rich of hue.
That widewhere* sent their spicery, *to distant parts
Their chaffare* was so thriftly** and so new, *wares **advantageous
That every wight had dainty* to chaffare** *pleasure **deal
With them, and eke to selle them their ware.

Now fell it, that the masters of that sort
Have *shapen them* to Rome for to wend, *determined, prepared...Read more of this...

by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...' mouf an' git away,
Ain't seen no sich fancy dressin' sence las' quah'tly meetin' day;
Gals all dressed in silks an' satins, not a wrinkle ner a crease,
Eyes a-battin', teeth a-shinin', haih breshed back ez slick ez grease;
Sku'ts all tucked an' puffed an' ruffled, evah blessed seam an' stitch;
Ef you 'd seen 'em wif deir mistus, could n't swahed to which was which.
Men all dressed up in Prince Alberts, swaller-tails 'u'd tek yo' bref!
I cain't tell you nothin' 'bout ...Read more of this...

by Dyke, Henry Van
...ome the best,
With that man will I wed." 

So they all fared forth, and sought with care
In many a famous mart,
For satins and silks and jewels rare,
To win that lady's heart. 

She looked at them all with never a thought,
And careless put them by;
"I am not fain of the things ye brought,
Enough of these have I." 

The last that came was the head of the fleet,
His name was Jan Borel;
He bent his knee at the lady's feet,--
In truth he loved her well. 

"I've br...Read more of this...

by Benet, Stephen Vincent
...n my sword was where her head had lain 
In the quiet moonlight; 
But turned to me with one pale hand uplifted, 
All her satins fiery with the starshine, 
Nacreous, shimmering, weeping, iridescent, 
Like the quivering plumage of a peacock . . . 
Then her head drooped and I gripped her hair, 
Oh soft, scented cloud across my fingers! -- 
Bending her white neck back. . . . 

Blood writhed on my hands; I trod in blood. . . . 
Stupidly a...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...d. 

But now we'll keep his memory green while horsemen come and go; 
We may not see his like again where silks and satins glow. 
We'll drink to him in silence, boys -- he's followed down the track 
Where many a good man went before, but never one came back. 
Amd, let us hope, in that far land where the shades of brave men reign, 
The gallant Tommy Corrigan will ride Lone Hand again....Read more of this...

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