Famous Sounder Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Sounder poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sounder poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sounder poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...iliz'd,
Fierce for the Liberties of Wit, and bold,
We still defy'd the Romans as of old.
Yet some there were, among the sounder Few
Of those who less presum'd, and better knew,
Who durst assert the juster Ancient Cause,
And here restor'd Wit's Fundamental Laws.
Such was the Muse, whose Rules and Practice tell,
Nature's chief Master-piece is writing well.
Such was Roscomon--not more learn'd than good,
With Manners gen'rous as his Noble Blood;
To him the Wit of Greece and Rome ...Read more of this...
by
Pope, Alexander
...s pluckt at noon
Gather to your fairy piper
When he pipes his magic tune:
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter
For the eater
Under the moon.
And you’ll be fairies soon.
In the cherry pluckt at night,
With the dew of summer swelling,
There’s a juice of pure delight,
Cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling.
Merry, merry,
Take a cherry;
Mine are sounder,
Mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter
For the eater
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by
Graves, Robert
...vpryse,
And he vnsoundyly out soyght seggez ouerthwert;
On the sellokest swyn swenged out there,
Long sythen fro the sounder that siyghed for olde,
For he watz breme, bor alther-grattest,
Ful grymme quen he gronyed; thenne greued mony,
For thre at the fyrst thrast he thryyght to the erthe,
And sparred forth good sped boute spyt more.
Thise other halowed hyghe! ful hyyghe, and hay! hay! cryed,
Haden hornez to mouthe, heterly rechated;
Mony watz the myry mouthe of men...Read more of this...
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Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...evil, sleep.
He also sleeps--another sleep than ours.
He can do no more wrong: forgive him, dear,
And I shall sleep the sounder!'
Then the man,
`His deeds yet live, the worst is yet to come.
Yet let your sleep for this one night be sound:
I do forgive him!'
`Thanks, my love,' she said,
`Your own will be the sweeter,' and they slept....Read more of this...
by
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...him to rest like the moaning wind;
And the louder it wails and the fiercer it sweeps,
The deeper he breathes and the sounder he sleeps.
And now his wandering feet can reach
The rugged tracks of the desolate beach;
Creeping about like a Triton imp,
To find the haunts of the crab and shrimp.
He clings, with none to guide or help,
To the furthest ridge of slippery kelp;
And his bold heart glows while he stands and mocks
The seamew’s cry on the jutting rocks.
Few year...Read more of this...
by
Cook, Eliza
...things sweet, He always gives what he knows meet ; Which who can use is happy : Such be thou. A body sound, with sounder mind ; To do thy country service, thy self right ; That neither want do thee affright, Nor death ; but when thy latest sand is spent, Thou may'st think life a thing but lent.
Whether by choice, or fate, or both ! And though so near the city, and the court, Art ta'en with neither's vice nor sport : That at great times, art no ambitio...Read more of this...
by
Jonson, Ben
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