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Famous Time To Come Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Berry, Wendell
...Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing
in time to come. How do we know?
They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee
that singing will ever be....Read more of this...



by Tynan, Katharine
...ldren yet to be 
Shall learn their prayers about my knee. 

And many million lights of home 
Shall light for me the time to come. 
Unto me much shall be forgiven, 
I that make many souls for heaven....Read more of this...

by Wyatt, Sir Thomas
...e,
For thou shalt feel it sitting in thy mind.

Mad, if ye list to continue your sore,
Let present pass and gape on time to come,
And deep yourself in travail more and more.

Henceforth, my Poynz, this shall be all and some,
These wretched fools shall have nought else of me;
But to the great God and to his high doom,

None other pain pray I for them to be,
But when the rage doth lead them from the right,
That, looking backward, Virtue they may see,

Even as she is, so...Read more of this...

by Wyatt, Sir Thomas
...
For thou shalt find it sitting in thy mind. 
Mad, if ye list to continue your sore, 
Let present pass, and gape on time to come, 
And deep yourself in travail more and more. 
Henceforth, my Poynz, this shall be all and some: 
These wretched fools shall have nought else of me. 
But to the great God and to His high doom* [judgment] 
None other pain pray I for them to be 
But, when the rage doth lead them from the right, 
That, looking backward, Virtue they may see ...Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts:
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, "This poet lies,
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces."
So should my pa...Read more of this...



by Shakespeare, William
...Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should m...Read more of this...

by Stevens, Wallace
...elebration. Shrewd novitiates 
354 Should be the clerks of our experience. 

355 These bland excursions into time to come, 
356 Related in romance to backward flights, 
357 However prodigal, however proud, 
358 Contained in their afflatus the reproach 
359 That first drove Crispin to his wandering. 
360 He could not be content with counterfeit, 
361 With masquerade of thought, with hapless words 
362 That must belie the racking masquerade, 
363 With fic...Read more of this...

by Borges, Jorge Luis
...rack along the muddy banks
Of sluggish streams whose names it does not know
(In its world there are no names or past
Or time to come, only the vivid now)
And makes its way across wild distances
Sniffing the braided labyrinth of smells
And in the wind picking the smell of dawn
And tantalizing scent of grazing deer;
Among the bamboo's slanting stripes I glimpse
The tiger's stripes and sense the bony frame
Under the splendid, quivering cover of skin.
Curving oceans and the p...Read more of this...

by Levine, Philip
...Suddenly the window will open
and Mother will call
it's time to come in

the wall will part
I will enter heaven in muddy shoes

I will come to the table
and answer questions rudely

I am all right leave me
alone. Head in hand I
sit and sit. How can I tell them
about that long
and tangled way.

Here in heaven mothers
knit green scarves

flies buzz

Father dozes by the stove
after six days' labour.
...Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...ear to the Sligo quay -
No, no, not said, but cried it out - 'You have come again,
And surely after twenty years it was time to come.'
I am thinking of a child's vow sworn in vain
Never to leave that valley his fathers called their home....Read more of this...

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