Famous Teal Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Amandas Painting

...ch, a musical lineation
and the shirt is apple-red, soaking in salt birth-sheen
more liquid than the river. My cap is a teal mask
pushed back so far that I can pretend it is headgear.
In the middle of the river are cobweb cassowary trees
of the South Pacific, and on the far shore rise
dark hills of the temperate zone. To these, at this
moment in the painting's growth, my course is slant 
but my eye is on them. To relax, to speak European....Read more of this...
by Murray, Les


Last Instructions to a Painter

...rrayed, 
No troop was better clad, nor so well paid. 
Then marched the troop of Clarendon, all full 
Haters of fowl, to teal preferring bull: 
Gross bodies, grosser minds, and grossest cheats, 
And bloated Wren conducts them to their seats. 
Charlton advances next, whose coif does awe 
The Mitre troop, and with his looks gives law. 
He marched with beaver cocked of bishop's brim, 
And hid much fraud under an aspect grim. 
Next the lawyers' merecenary band appear: 
Finch in th...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Mollymook

...eucalypts, 
 like a Sondheim melody.
 Through the pewter leaves
 the sea glimpsed from the wooden deck 
 is, at times, teal silk. 
 Other days it is grey.

 Longing stirs like waves 
 about to break on the shore
 and sometimes they lift 
 and swell like hope,
 as they pound the sand.
 From this wooden deck 
 far above the beach, the sand 
 has lost its power to cling and
 irritate like problems unresolved.


 Other times the waves rise and crest, 
 only to evaporate, 
 the w...Read more of this...
by Harcombe, Dale

Snowbound a Winter Idyl

...
The common features magnified, 
As Surrey hills to mountains grew 
In White of Selborne's loving view, -- 
He told how teal and loon he shot, 
And how the eagle's eggs he got, 
The feats on pond and river done, 
The prodigies of rod and gun; 
Till, warming with the tales he told, 
Forgotten was the outside cold, 
The bitter wind unheeded blew, 
From ripening corn the pigeons flew, 
The partridge drummed i' the wood, the mink 
Went fishing down the river-brink. 
The woodchuck...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf

The Lady of the Lake

...ongue
     On his mysterious lineage flung.
     Whole nights he spent by moonlight pale
     To wood and stream his teal, to wail,
     Till, frantic, he as truth received
     What of his birth the crowd believed,
     And sought, in mist and meteor fire,
     To meet and know his Phantom Sire!
     In vain, to soothe his wayward fate,
     The cloister oped her pitying gate;
     In vain the learning of the age
     Unclasped the sable-lettered page;
     Even ...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter


Then

...tumbled 
out at the sides in dark rags. When she turned 
it around, the black felt cupped her forehead 
perfectly, the teal feathers trailing out behind, 
twin cool jets of flame. Suddenly he is here. 
As she goes to the door, the dark hat falls back 
into the closed drawer of memory to wait 
until the trees are bare and the days shut down 
abruptly at five. They touch, cheek to cheek, 
and only there, both bodies stiffly arched apart. 
As she draws her white gloves on, she ...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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