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Famous Transience Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...s vain
Seasons come & go,
Thou a refuge dost remain
From all wintry woe,
Thou art still the perfect clime
Where no transience is nor time.


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by Hafez,



...
Improvident, unmemoried;
And fitfully and like a flame 
The light of laughter went and came. 
Proud in their careless transience moved 
The changing faces that I loved. 

Till suddenly, and otherwhence,
I looked upon your innocence. 
For lifted clear and still and strange 
From the dark woven flow of change 
Under a vast and starless sky 
I saw the immortal moment lie.
One Instant I, an instant, knew 
As God knows all. And it and you 
I, above Time, oh, blind! could see 
In...Read more of this...
by Brooke, Rupert
...oad my last bus.-Farewell, Walnut 
 Creek Richmond Vallejo Portland Pacific 
 Highway 
Fleet-footed Quicksilver, God of transience. 
One last package sits lone at midnight sticking up out 
 of the Coast rack high as the dusty fluorescent 
 light. 

The wage they pay us is too low to live on. Tragedy 
 reduced to numbers. 
This for the poor shepherds. I am a communist. 
Farewell ye Greyhound where I suffered so much, 
 hurt my knee and scraped my hand and built 
 my pectoral m...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen
...ntains thrust
Their blackness high into the still grey light,
Deepening to blue: far up the glimmering height
In silver transience shines the starry dust.


Silent the sheep about me; fleece by fleece
They sleep and stir not: I with awe around
Wander uncertain o’er the giant mound,
A fire that moves between their peace and peace.


The city myriads dream or sleep below;
Aloft another day has but begun:
Under the radiance of the Midnight Sun
The Tree of Life put forth its leav...Read more of this...
by Russell, George William
...e never before 
What a glorious day! 

Look at their hands, the dead 
Look at their liquid eyes 

This is the toilet of transience 
The final toilet of life 
Stones sink and disappear 
In the vast, primal waters 
The final toilet of time 

Hardly a memory remains 
the dried-up well of virtue 
In the long, oppressive absences 
One surrenders to tender flesh 
Under the spell of weakness 

III. As deep as the silence 

As deep as the silence 
Of a corpse under ground 
With nothi...Read more of this...
by Eluard, Paul



...sky? 
You know not, nor do I.
But this we know, if we know anything: 
That we may laugh and fight and sing 
And of our transience here make offering 
To an orient Word that will not be erased, 
Or, save in incommunicable gleams
Too permanent for dreams, 
Be found or known. 
No tonic and ambitious irritant 
Of increase or of want 
Has made an otherwise insensate waste
Of ages overthrown 
A ruthless, veiled, implacable foretaste 
Of other ages that are still to be 
Depleted an...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ring airs 
Of heavenly peace. Oh take me to yourselves, 
Earth, sky, and spirit! Let me stand within
The circle of your transience, that my voice 
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by Sassoon, Siegfried

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