Famous Sheers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Should You Ask At Midnight

...without your voice to wake me?
Cor ad cor loquitur, I’m loath to know.
Kitsch operas sound, unhesitant to shake me,
The sheers undrawn, the heavens hardly showing,
My camisole askew, of lace-trimmed black –
Not red, not white; not passionate or pure.
I raise the volume, and the voices crack—
Vanilla scores: accessible, obscure.
But what would I do without your certain voice?
Disjecta membra ... I am loath to think.
This negligée is sable, but my choice
If black had been forbi...Read more of this...
by Reeser, Jennifer


The Palace

...hat other's -- the spoil of a King who shall build."

I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my sheers.
All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.
Only I cut on the timber -- only I carved on the stone:
"AfterT me cometh a BuilderT. Tell him, I too have known!"...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Rape of the Lock

...joins it, to divide.
Ev'n then, before the fatal Engine clos'd,
A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd; 
Fate urg'd the Sheers, and cut the Sylph in twain,
(But Airy Substance soon unites again)
The meeting Points that sacred Hair dissever
From the fair Head, for ever and for ever!

Then flash'd the living Lightnings from her Eyes,
And Screams of Horror rend th' affrighted Skies.
Not louder Shrieks to pitying Heav'n are cast,
When Husbands or when Lap-dogs breath their last,
...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

The Scourge Of Heaven

...ary grips 
 It loosens a block, 
 Which smokes and then slips 
 From its place by the shock; 
 To the surface first sheers, 
 Then melts, disappears, 
 Like the glacier, the rock! 
 The high priest, full of years, 
 On the burnt site appears, 
 Whence the others have fled. 
 Lo! his tiara's caught fire 
 As the furnace burns higher, 
 And pale, full of dread, 
 See, the hand he would raise 
 To tear his crown from the blaze 
 Is flaming instead! 
 
 Men, wome...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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