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Famous Smoothest Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Wheatley, Phillis
...Attend my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;
In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.

Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.Read more of this...



by Tessimond, A S J
...ed - malice of open manholes, strings in the dark and falling trees.

God kicks our backsides, scatters peel on the smoothest stair;
And towering centaurs steal the tulip lips, the aureoled hair,

While we, craned from the gallery, throw our cardboard flowers
And our feet jerk to tunes not played for ours....Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...ed away again.
Within a little space again it gave
Its airy swellings, with a gentle wave,
To light-hung leaves, in smoothest echoes breaking
Through copse-clad vallies,--ere their death, oer-taking
The surgy murmurs of the lonely sea.

 And now, as deep into the wood as we
Might mark a lynx's eye, there glimmered light
Fair faces and a rush of garments white,
Plainer and plainer shewing, till at last
Into the widest alley they all past,
Making directly for the woodla...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...s, and woods, and heathy waste,
Where with thy silver bow and arrows keen
Art thou now forested? O woodland Queen,
What smoothest air thy smoother forehead woos?
Where dost thou listen to the wide halloos
Of thy disparted nymphs? Through what dark tree
Glimmers thy crescent? Wheresoe'er it be,
'Tis in the breath of heaven: thou dost taste
Freedom as none can taste it, nor dost waste
Thy loveliness in dismal elements;
But, finding in our green earth sweet contents,
There lives...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...leaving twilight in the rear,
Came slope upon the threshold of the west;
Then, as was wont, his palace-door flew ope
In smoothest silence, save what solemn tubes,
Blown by the serious Zephyrs, gave of sweet
And wandering sounds, slow-breathed melodies;
And like a rose in vermeil tint and shape,
In fragrance soft, and coolness to the eye,
That inlet to severe magnificence
Stood full blown, for the God to enter in.

 He enter'd, but he enter'd full of wrath;
His flaming rob...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...Rose-posied pillow, crystallized with spray, 
 Where pools pellucid mirror sunny ray. 
 
 A frigate fretting yonder smoothest sky, 
 Like pauseless petrel poising o'er a wreck, 
 Strikes bright athwart the dearly dazzled eye, 
 Until it lessens to scarce certain speck, 
 'Neath Venus, sparkling on the agate-sprinkled beach, 
 For fisher's sailing-signal, just and true, 
 Until Aurora frights her from the view. 
 
 In summer, steamer-smoke spreads as thy veil, 
 A...Read more of this...

by Cook, Eliza
...edecks, and the white lawn is spread ;
I may feast undisturbed, I may dwell and carouse
On the sweetest of lips and the smoothest of brows.
The voice of the sexton, the chink of the spade,
Sound merrily under the willow's dank shade.
They are carnival notes, and I travel with glee
To learn what the churchyard has given to me.

Oh ! the worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain,
For where monarchs are voiceless I revel and reign ;
I delve at my ease and regale where ...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...ar this grudge?"
 Was there no room save only in Benmore
For docket, duftar, and for office drudge,
 That you usurp our smoothest dancing floor?
Must babus do their work on polished teak?
 Are ball-rooms fittest for the ink you spill?
Was there no other cheaper house to seek?
 You might have left them all at Strawberry Hill.

We never harmed you! Innocent our guise,
 Dainty our shining feet, our voices low;
And we revolved to divers melodies,
 And we were happy but a year...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...rown. 

"Oh, ladies, come and ride with us," the Scorcher did entreat, 
"A little ride across the park and down the smoothest street, 
And you will have a chance to show your very dainty feet." 

The Scorcher rode up all the hills, as if the same were flat; 
"It's very rude," the ladies said, "to ride as fast as that; 
For all of us are out of breath - and some of us are fat." 

"Cheer up, cheer up, my ladies gay," the Howling Swell replied; 
"Behold a tea-shop by...Read more of this...

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