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Famous Thrum Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...weaver’s, &c.


A bonie, westlin weaver lad
 Sat working at his loom;
He took my heart as wi’ a net,
 In every knot and thrum.
 To the weaver’s, &c.


I sat beside my warpin-wheel,
 And aye I ca’d it roun’;
But every shot and evey knock,
 My heart it gae a stoun.
 To the weaver’s, &c.


The moon was sinking in the west,
 Wi’ visage pale and wan,
As my bonie, westlin weaver lad
 Convoy’d me thro’ the glen.
 To the weaver’s, &c.


But what was said, or what was done,
 Shame fa’...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...cept when drunk he stacher’t thro’ it;
Here, ambush’d by the chimla cheek,
Hid in an atmosphere of reek,
I hear a wheel thrum i’ the neuk,
I hear it—for in vain I leuk.
The red peat gleams, a fiery kernel,
Enhuskèd by a fog infernal:
Here, for my wonted rhyming raptures,
I sit and count my sins by chapters;
For life and ***** like ither Christians,
I’m dwindled down to mere existence,
Wi’ nae converse but Gallowa’ bodies,
Wi’ nae kenn’d face but Jenny Geddes,
Jenny, my Pegase...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...see the worl’.
 There, at Vienna, or Versailles,
He rives his father’s auld entails;
Or by Madrid he takes the rout,
To thrum guitars an’ fecht wi’ nowt;
Or down Italian vista startles,
 Wh-re-hunting amang groves o’ myrtles:
Then bowses drumlie German-water,
To mak himsel look fair an’ fatter,
An’ clear the consequential sorrows,
Love-gifts of Carnival signoras.
 For Britain’s guid! for her destruction!
Wi’ dissipation, feud, an’ faction.


LUATH Hech, man! dear sirs! is tha...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...Sitting alone
in the hush of the bamboo grove
I thrum my lute
and whistle lingering notes.
In the secrecy of the wood
no one can hear --
Only the clear moon
comes to shine on me....Read more of this...
by Wei, Wang
...n,
While Madame sings to us behind the bar:
You'll see how sweet Italian folk-songs are."

So he would play and I would thrum the while;
I used to there every lovely day;
His wife would listen with a sunny smile,
And when I left: "Please come again," she'd say.
"He seems quite sad when you have one away."

Alas! I had to leave without good-bye,
And lived in sooty cities for ayear.
Oh, how my heart ached for that happy sky!
Then, then one day my café I drew near -
God! it was ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William



...not arise and play
In some odd fashion of its own,
Some quainter Holiday,
When Winds go round and round in Bands --
And thrum upon the door,
And Birds take places, overhead,
To bear them Orchestra.

I crave Him grace of Summer Boughs,
If such an Outcast be --
Who never heard that fleshless Chant --
Rise -- solemn -- on the Tree,
As if some Caravan of Sound
Off Deserts, in the Sky,
Had parted Rank,
Then knit, and swept --
In Seamless Company --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily
...with a sound of myriad throbbing, 
Persuasive and sinister, near and far: 
In the blue evening of my heart 
I hear the thrum of the evening star.

My work is uncompleted; and yet I hurry,— 
Hearing the whispered pulsing of those drums,— 
To enter the luminous walls and woods of night. 
It is the eternal mistress of the world 
Who shakes these drums for my delight. 
Listen! the drums of the leaves, the drums of the dust, 
The delicious quivering of this air!

I will leave my ...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad
...nting tenderness 
481 Of music, as it comes to unison, 
482 Forgather and bell boldly Crispin's last 
483 Deduction. Thrum, with a proud douceur 
484 His grand pronunciamento and devise. 

485 The chits came for his jigging, bluet-eyed, 
486 Hands without touch yet touching poignantly, 
487 Leaving no room upon his cloudy knee, 
488 Prophetic joint, for its diviner young. 
489 The return to social nature, once begun, 
490 Anabasis or slump, ascent or chute, 
491 I...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace
...laughing-stocks of Time, 
Whose brains are in their hands and in their heels 
But fit to flaunt, to dress, to dance, to thrum, 
To tramp, to scream, to burnish, and to scour, 
For ever slaves at home and fools abroad.' 

She, ending, waved her hands: thereat the crowd 
Muttering, dissolved: then with a smile, that looked 
A stroke of cruel sunshine on the cliff, 
When all the glens are drowned in azure gloom 
Of thunder-shower, she floated to us and said: 

'You have done wel...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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