Famous Silver Grey Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Andrea del Sarto

...But do not let us quarrel any more,
No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once:
Sit down and all shall happen as you wish.
You turn your face, but does it bring your heart?
I'll work then for your friend's friend, never fear,
Treat his own subject after his own way,
Fix his own time, accept too his own price,
And shut the money into this small hand
When next i...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Daybreak In A Garden

...I heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin,
When hooded night was going and one clear planet winked:
I heard shrill notes begin down the spired wood distinct,
When cloudy shoals were chinked and gilt with fires of day.
White-misted was the weald; the lawns were silver-grey;
The lark his lonely field for heaven had forsaken;
And the wind upon...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

In September

...The sky is silver-grey; the long
Slow waves caress the shore.--
On such a day as this I have been glad,
Who shall be glad no more....Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy

Kittens

...A ray of sun strayed softly round,
For something to caress,
Until a resting place it found
Of joy and thankfulness;
'Twas Minette, our Angora cat,
With deep contented purr,
Relaxed in rapture on a mat,
Three kittens nuzzling her.

With tenderness the sunbeam kissed
her fur of silver-grey;
Her eyes held an ecstatic mist,
In boundless bliss she lay;
The sunn...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Lost Kitten

...has
Is to get drowned in drink.

A kitten on a wall,
A skinny, starving stray;
It looked so pitifully small,
A fluff of silver grey.
One of the men came to a stand,
A kindly chap was he,
For with a huge and horny hand
He stroked it tenderly.

With wistful hope it gazed at him
And arched a spine of fur;
It licked his hand so grimy grim
And feebly tried to purr.
And then it climbed upon his chest,
And to his drunken glee,
Upon his shoulder came to rest,
Contented as could be.

...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Nimrodel

...An Elven-maid there was of old,
A shining star by day.
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
Her shoes of silver-grey.

A star was bound upon her brows,
A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In Lorien the fair.

Her hair was long, her limbs were white,
And fair she was and free;
And in the wind she went as light
As leaf of linden-tree.

Be...Read more of this...
by Tolkien, J R R

Old Boy Scout

...A bonny bird I found today
Mired in a melt of tar;
Its silky breast was silver-grey,
Its wings were cinnabar.
So still it lay right in the way
Of every passing car.

Yet as I gently sought to pry
It loose, it glared at me;
You would have thought its foe was I,
It pecked so viciously;
So fiercely fought, as soft I sought
From death to set it free.

Its pini...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Colossus

...had majas nude or veiled

Always with dark eyes like her

Whom I loved and they poisoned,

Duchess of Alba, dressed in silver grey,

A white pekinese at her feet with the world:

On the sand my name with hers

And ‘always’.



Old men easily grow afraid;

Spain and her blood are distant.

Alba dead I paint my ‘Milkmaid of Bordeaux’

In lingering silver-grey....Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

The Englishman In Italy

...(PIANO DI SORRENTO.)

Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one,
Sit here by my side,
On my knees put up both little feet!
I was sure, if I tried,
I could make you laugh spite of Scirocco;
Now, open your eyes— 
Let me keep you amused till he vanish
In black from the skies,
With telling my memories over
As you tell your beads;
All the memories plucked at Sorrento
—The f...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Goat And I

...Each sunny day upon my way
 A goat I pass;
He has a beard of silver grey,
 A bell of brass.
And all the while I am in sight
 He seems to muse,
And stares at me with all his might
 And chews and chews.

Upon the hill so thymy sweet
 With joy of Spring,
He hails me with a tiny bleat
 Of welcoming.
Though half the globe is drenched with blood
 And cities flare,
Contentedly he chews the cud
 And does not care.

Oh gentle ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Return

...ore;
And where her roses breathed above,
 He cowered beside the door.

She sat there in the shining room;
 Her hair was silver grey.
He stared and stared from out the gloom;
 He turned to go away.

Her roses rustled overhead.
 She saw, with sudden start.
"I knew that you would come," she said,
 And held him to her heart.

Her face was rapt and angel-sweet;
 She touched his hair of grey;

 . . . . .

But he, sob-shaken, at her feet,
 Could only pray and pray....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Swiss Alps

...YESTERDAY brown was still thy head, as the locks 
of my loved one,

Whose sweet image so dear silently beckons afar.
Silver-grey is the early snow to-day on thy summit,

Through the tempestuous night streaming fast over 
thy brow.
Youth, alas, throughout life as closely to age is united

As, in some changeable dream, yesterday blends 
with to-day.

 Uri, 
...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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