Famous Terrene Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Terrene poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous terrene poems. These examples illustrate what a famous terrene poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...fruits gray like dust or bright like blood?
Does the dim ground grow any seed of ours,
The faint fields quicken any terrene root,
In low lands where the sun and moon are mute
And all the stars keep silence? Are there flowers
At all, or any fruit?
Alas, but though my flying song flies after,
O sweet strange elder singer, thy more fleet
Singing, and footprints of thy fleeter feet,
Some dim derision of mysterious laughter
From the blind tongueless warders of th...Read more of this...
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...arth?
Or are there less oppressions done
In this wild world under the sun?
Nay, if indeed thou be not dead,
Before thy terrene shrine be shaken,
Look down, turn usward, bow thine head;
O thou that wast of God forsaken,
Look on thine household here, and see
These that have not forsaken thee.
Thy faith is fire upon their lips,
Thy kingdom golden in their hands;
They scourge us with thy words for whips,
They brand us with thy words for brands;
The thirst that made thy dry ...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...Is it too late to touch you, Dear?
We this moment knew --
Love Marine and Love terrene --
Love celestial too --...Read more of this...
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Crowley, Aleister
...dance
Through the golden galaxies
Rythmic swell of circumstance
Beaming passion’s argosies:
Ecstacy entwined with ease,
Terrene joy transcending trance!
Thou my scarlet concubine
Draining heart’s blood to the lees
To empurple those divine
Lips with living luxuries
Life importunate to appease
Drought insatiable of wine!
Tunis in the tremendous trance
Rests from day’s incestuous
Traffic with the radiance
Of her sire-& over us
Gleams the intoxicating glance
Of the Moon & Siriu...Read more of this...
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Milton, John
...heir names of thee; so over many a tract
Of Heaven they marched, and many a province wide,
Tenfold the length of this terrene: At last,
Far in the horizon to the north appeared
From skirt to skirt a fiery region, stretched
In battailous aspect, and nearer view
Bristled with upright beams innumerable
Of rigid spears, and helmets thronged, and shields
Various, with boastful argument portrayed,
The banded Powers of Satan hasting on
With furious expedition; for they wee...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...My hopeless heart the weary spirit leavesOnce more to gain its paradise terrene;Then, finding full of bitter-sweet the scene,And in the world how vast the web it weaves.A secret sigh for baffled love it heaves,Whose spurs so sharp, whose curb so hard have been.By these two contrary and mix'd extremes,...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...s—Equal to angels in her heavenly mien.Nothing in her was mortal or terrene,As one whom nothing short of heaven can please;My soul well train'd for her to burn and freezeSought in her wake to mount the blue serene.But ah! too high for earthly wings to riseHer pitch, and soon she wholly pass'd from...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...> 1777. Most fortunate and fair of spots terrene!Where Love I saw her forward footstep stay,And turn on me her bright eyes' heavenly ray,Which round them make the atmosphere serene.[Pg 103]A solid form of adamant, I ween,Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...>Then all the ills of life she counts, and praysMy soul ere long may quit this terrene sphere:And by her words alone I'm soothed and freed from woe. Nott. Ne'er to the son, in whom her age is blest,The anxious mother—nor to her loved lordRead more of this...
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Hardy, Thomas
..."Men know but little more than we,
Who count us least of things terrene,
How happy days are made to be!
"Of such strange tidings what think ye,
O birds in brown that peck and preen?
Men know but little more than we!
"When I was borne from yonder tree
In bonds to them, I hoped to glean
How happy days are made to be,
"And want and wailing turned to glee;
Alas, despite their mighty mien
Men know but little more...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...ight and still --
Descried I -- by the distant Light
A Traveller on a Hill --
To magic Perpendiculars
Ascending, though Terrene --
Unknown his shimmering ultimate --
But he indorsed the sheen --...Read more of this...
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Crowley, Aleister
...crifice these impure shoon
To the cold ray of the waning moon.
I take the forked hazel staff,
And the rose of no terrene graff,
And the lamp of no olive oil
With heart's blood that alone may boil.
With naked breast and feet unshod
I follow the wizard way to God.
Wherever he leads my foot shall follow;
Over the height, into the hollow,
Up to the caves of pure cold breath,
Down to the deeps of foul hot death,
Across the seas, through the fires,
Past th...Read more of this...
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