Famous Stintless Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Calendar of Sonnets: June

...store 
In all her roomy house no treasure more; 
Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend 
On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end. 
And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before 
It hath made ready at its hidden core 
Its tithe of seed, which we may count and tend 
Till harvest. Joy of blossomed love, for thee 
Seems it no fairer thing can yet have birth? 
No room is left for deeper ecstacy? 
Watch well if seeds grow strong, to scatter free 
Germs for thy future s...Read more of this...
by Jackson, Helen Hunt


Before I got my eye put out

...I tell you that my Heart
Would split, for size of me --

The Meadows -- mine --
The Mountains -- mine --
All Forests -- Stintless Stars --
As much of Noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes --

The Motions of the Dipping Birds --
The Morning's Amber Road --
For mine -- to look at when I liked --
The News would strike me dead --

So safer -- guess -- with just my soul
Upon the Window pane --
Where other Creatures put their eyes --
Incautious -- of the Sun --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Brother of All with Generous Hand

...ions perfect and divine, 
The workings, details, haply human.)

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O thou within this tomb, 
From thee, such scenes—thou stintless, lavish Giver, 
Tallying the gifts of Earth—large as the Earth, 
Thy name an Earth, with mountains, fields and rivers. 

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers,
By you, your banks, Connecticut, 
By you, and all your teeming life, Old Thames, 
By you, Potomac, laving the ground Washington trod—by you Patapsco, 
You, Hudson—you, endless Mississippi—no...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Church-Builder

...
Over the moon-blanched sward: 
The church; my gift; whereto I paid 
My all in hand and hoard; 
Lavished my gains 
With stintless pains 
To glorify the Lord. 

I squared the broad foundations in 
Of ashlared masonry; 
I moulded mullions thick and thin, 
Hewed fillet and ogee; 
I circleted 
Each sculptured head 
With nimb and canopy. 

I called in many a craftsmaster 
To fix emblazoned glass, 
To figure Cross and Sepulchure 
On dossal, boss, and brass. 
My gold all spent, 
My ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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