Famous Spangles Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree --

...e --

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads --
The Birds jocoser sung --
The Sunshine threw his Hat away --
The Bushes -- spangles flung --

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes --
And bathed them in the Glee --
Then Orient showed a single Flag,
And signed the Fete away --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily


Back to the Border

...fountain's border-stone—
   Cold stone, that chills me as I lie
   Counting the slowly passing hours
   By the white spangles in the sky.

   Some feast the Tom-toms celebrate,
   Where, close together, side by side,
   Gay in their gauze and tinsel state
   With lips serene and downcast eyes,
   Sit the young bridegroom and his bride,
   While round them songs and laughter rise.

   They are together; Why are we
   So hopelessly, so far apart?
   Oh, I implore ...Read more of this...
by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory

Daffy Duck In Hollywood

...ach new parting of the ways. Pastel
Ambulances scoop up the quick and hie them to hospitals.
"It's all bits and pieces, spangles, patches, really; nothing
Stands alone. What happened to creative evolution?"
Sighed Aglavaine. Then to her Sélysette: "If his
Achievement is only to end up less boring than the others, 
What's keeping us here? Why not leave at once?
I have to stay here while they sit in there,
Laugh, drink, have fine time. In my day
One lay under the tough green le...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John

Endymion: Book III

...how gone in woe!
She dies at the thinnest cloud; her loveliness
Is wan on Neptune's blue: yet there's a stress
Of love-spangles, just off yon cape of trees,
Dancing upon the waves, as if to please
The curly foam with amorous influence.
O, not so idle: for down-glancing thence
She fathoms eddies, and runs wild about
O'erwhelming water-courses; scaring out
The thorny sharks from hiding-holes, and fright'ning
Their savage eyes with unaccustomed lightning.
Where will the splendo...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

February

...lace, 
To mortals as a highlander appears, 
And conscious of the excellence of lace, 
With spreading frogs and gleaming spangles glares. 

Whilst Envy, on a tripod seated nigh, 
In form a shoe-boy, daubs the valu'd fruit, 
And darting lightnings from his vengeful eye, 
Raves about Wilkes, and politics, and Bute. 

Now Barry, taller than a grenadier, 
Dwindles into a stripling of eighteen; 
Or sabled in Othello breaks the ear, 
Exerts his voice, and totters to the scene. 

Now...Read more of this...
by Chatterton, Thomas


Heccar and Gaira

...fatal haste; 
He fell, he died-- spent in the fiery toil, 
I strip'd his carcase of the furry spoil, 
And as the varied spangles met my eye, 
On this, I cried, shall my loved Cawna lie. 
The dusky midnight hung the skies in grey; 
Impell'd by love, I wing'd the airy way; 
In the deep valley and mossy plain, 
I sought my Cawna, but I sought in vain, 
The pallid shadows of the azure waves 
Had made my Cawna, and my children slaves. 
Reflection maddens, to recall the hour, 
The ...Read more of this...
by Chatterton, Thomas

How a Little Girl Danced

...ancer,
With foot like the snow, and with step like the rain.

Oh, thrice-painted dancer, vaudeville dancer,
Sad in your spangles, with soul all astrain,
I know a dancer, I know a dancer,
Whose laughter and weeping are spiritual gain,
A pure-hearted, high-hearted maiden evangel, 
With strength the dark cynical earth to disdain.

Flowers of bright Broadway, you of the chorus,
Who sing in the hope of forgetting your pain:
I turn to a sister of Sainted Cecilia,
A white bird escap...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

Ophelia

...
Tomorrow and tomorrow 
Are plotting cruelty.

The winter wind tangles 
These ringlets half-grown, 
The sun sprays with spangles 
And rays like his own.

Oh, quieter and colder 
Is the stream; he will wait; 
When my curls touch my shoulder 
He will comb them straight....Read more of this...
by Wylie, Elinor

The Apparition Of His Mistresscalling Him To Elysium

...Where ev'ry tree a wealthy issue bears
Of fragrant apples, blushing plums, or pears;
And all the shrubs, with sparkling spangles, shew
Like morning sun-shine, tinselling the dew.
Here in green meadows sits eternal May,
Purfling the margents, while perpetual day
So double-gilds the air, as that no night
Can ever rust th' enamel of the light:
Here naked younglings, handsome striplings, run
Their goals for virgins' kisses; which when done,
Then unto dancing forth the learned rou...Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert

The Bell-ringer

...,
And to be flying in gleams of fire
Far o'er the lakes and the swampy rivers.
Its slates, like wings
Of sparks and spangles, afar it flings.
They fly toward the forests across the night:
And in their passage the fires exhume
The hovels and huts from their folds of gloom,
Setting them suddenly all alight.


In the crashing fall of the steeple's crown
The cross to the brazier's depth drops down,
Where, twisted and torn in the fiery fray,
Its Christian arms are cr...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

The Merman

...the dreamy dells,
Call to each other and whoop and cry
 All night, merrily, merrily.
They would pelt me with starry spangles and shells,
Laughing and clapping their hands between,
 All night, merrily, merrily,
But I would throw to them back in mine
Turkis and agate and almondine;
Then leaping out upon them unseen
I would kiss them often under the sea,
And kiss them again till they kiss'd me
 Laughingly, laughingly.
O, what a happy life where mine
Under the hollo...Read more of this...
by Riley, James Whitcomb

The Snow-Shower

...the dark and silent lake. 

Here delicate snow-stars, out of the cloud, 
Come floating downward in airy play, 
Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd 
That whiten by night the milky-way; 20 
There broader and burlier masses fall; 
The sullen water buries them all¡ª 
Flake after flake 
All drowned in the dark and silent lake. 

And some, as on tender wings they glide 25 
From their chilly birth-cloud, dim and gray, 
Are joined in their fall, and, side by ...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

Turns And Movies: Rose And Murray

...ith Zudora; 
And knows that certain changes are before her.

The brilliant spotlight circles them around, 
Flashing the spangles on her weighted dress. 
He mimics wooing her, without a sound, 
Flatters her with a smoothly smiled caress. 
He fears that she will someday ***** his act; 
Feeling his anger. He will quit her soon. 
He nods for faster music. He will contract 
Another partner, under another moon. 
Meanwhile, 'smooth stuff.' He lets his dry eyes flit 
Over the yellow ...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad

Up At A Villa— Down In The City

...ver he preached."
Noon strikes,—here sweeps the procession! our Lady borne smiling and smart
With a pink gauze gown all spangles, and seven swords stuck in her heart!
Bang, whang, whang goes the drum, tootle-te-tootle the fife;
No keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life.

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But bless you, it's dear—it's dear! fowls, wine, at double the rate.
They have clapped a new tax upon salt, and what oil pays passing the gate
It's a horror to think of. And so, t...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

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