Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Tittered Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...sought renown
By holding out to tire each other down!
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,
While secret laughter tittered round the place;
The bashful virgin's sidelong look of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove:
These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,
With sweet succession, taught even toil to please;
These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,
These were thy charms—But all these charms are fled.

Sweet smiling village,...Read more of this...
by Goldsmith, Oliver



...talk about it.

But parson'd proved to people's eyes 
That I was drunk, and he was wise; 
And people grinned and women tittered, 
And little children mocked and twittered. 
So, blazing mad, I stalked to bar 
To show how noble drunkards are, 
And guzzled spirits like a beast, 
To show contempt for Church and priest, 
Until, by six, my wits went round 
Like hungry pigs in parish pound. 
At half past six, rememb'ring Jane, 
I staggered into street again 
With mind made up (or p...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John
...nothing, childlike, being dead.
 And the lofty Shrapnel-cloud
 Leisurely gestured, - 'Fool!'
 And the falling splinters tittered.


'My Love!' one moaned. Love-languid seemed his mood,
Till, slowly lowered, his whole face kissed the mud.
 And the Bayonets' long teeth grinned;
 Rabbles of Shells hooted and groaned;
 And the Gas hissed....Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred
...flying,
Bigger than a grove of pine-trees,
Taller than the tallest tree-tops!
And the old men and the women
Looked and tittered at each other;
"Kaw!" they said, "we don't believe it!"
From its mouth, he said, to greet him,
Came Waywassimo, the lightning,
Came the thunder, Annemeekee!
And the warriors and the women
Laughed aloud at poor Iagoo;
"Kaw!" they said, "what tales you tell us!"
In it, said he, came a people,
In the great canoe with pinions
Came, he said, a hundred wa...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Tittered poems.


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry