Famous Vanished Poems by Famous Poets

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Child of Europe

...empty faces swim out of the deep dark.
You can fill them with any feature desired.

Proud of dominion over people long vanished,
Change the past into your own, better likeness.

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The laughter born of the love of truth
Is now the laughter of the enemies of the people.

Gone is the age of satire. We no longer need mock.
The sensible monarch with false courtly phrases.

Stern as befits the servants of a cause,
We will permit ourselves sycophantic humor.

Tight-lipped, guided b...Read more of this...
by Milosz, Czeslaw


Custer

...to arms, 
And gloried in the conflict's loud alarms.
But one dark shadow marred his bounding joy; 
And then the soldier vanished, and the boy, 
The tender son, clung close, with sobbing breath, 
To her from whom each parting was new death; 
That mother who like goddesses of old, 
Gave to the mighty Mars, three warriors brave and bold, 

VI.

Yet who, unlike those martial dames of yore, 
Grew pale and shuddered at the sight of gore.
A fragile being, born to grace the hearth, 
...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

...burning city. Behind him,
Nodding and mocking along the wall, with gestures fantastic,
Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness.
Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair
Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser
Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
Fragments of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas,
Such as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him
Sang in their ...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Howl

...gorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement,
who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,
suffering Eastern sweats and Tangerian bone-grindings and migraines of China under junk-withdrawal in Newark’s bleak furnished room,   
who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken ...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

Last Instructions to a Painter

...se beauty greater seemed by her distress), 
But soon shrunk back, chilled with her touch so cold, 
And th' airy picture vanished from his hold. 
In his deep thoughts the wonder did increase, 
And he divined 'twas England or the Peace. 

Express him startling next with listening ear, 
As one that some unusual noise does hear. 
With cannon, trumpets, drums, his door surround-- 
But let some other painter draw the sound. 
Thrice did he rise, thrice the vain tumult fled, 
But aga...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


Mountains

...hat quiet shore? 


``Ere you quit this ancient casement, tell me, is it well to yearn 
For the evanescent visions, vanished never to return? 
Is it well that I should with to leave this dreary world behind, 
Seeking for your fair Utopia, which perchance I may not find? 
Passing through a gloomy forest, scaling steeps like prison walls, 
Where the scanty sunshine wavers and the moonlight seldom falls? 
Oh, the feelings re-awakened! Oh, the hopes of loftier range! 

...Read more of this...
by Kendall, Henry

Ode To Silence

...in erases,
And the inarticulate snow,
Leaving at last of her least signs and traces
None whatsoever, nor whither she is vanished from these places.
"She will love well," I said,
"If love be of that heart inhabiter,
The flowers of the dead;
The red anemone that with no sound
Moves in the wind, and from another wound
That sprang, the heavily-sweet blue hyacinth,
That blossoms underground,
And sallow poppies, will be dear to her.
And will not Silence know
In the black shade of w...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

The Artists

...rch further through the future's night:
Then, too, ye plunged, without a fear,
Into Avernus' ocean black,
And found the vanished life so dear
Beyond the urn, and brought it back.
A blooming Pollux-form appeared now soon,
On Castor leaning, and enshrined in light--
The shadow that is seen upon the moon,
Ere she has filled her silvery circle bright!

Yet higher,--higher still above the earth
Inventive genius never ceased to rise:
Creations from creations had their birth,
And ha...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Dream

...re and of pain;
They make us what we were not—what they will,
And shake us with the vision that's gone by,
The dread of vanished shadows—Are they so?
Is not the past all shadow?—What are they?
Creations of the mind?—The mind can make
Substances, and people planets of its own
With beings brighter than have been, and give
A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
I would recall a vision which I dreamed
Perchance in sleep—for in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is ca...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Flight Of The Duchess

...n the song was sweetest,
The peace most deep and the charm completest,
There came, shall I say, a snap---
And the charm vanished!
And my sense returned, so strangely banished,
And, starting as from a nap,
I knew the crone was bewitching my lady,
With Jacynth asleep; and but one spring made I
Down from the casement, round to the portal,
Another minute and I had entered,---
When the door opened, and more than mortal
Stood, with a face where to my mind centred
All beauties I eve...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Holy Grail

...reat Sea. 
And Galahad fled along them bridge by bridge, 
And every bridge as quickly as he crost 
Sprang into fire and vanished, though I yearned 
To follow; and thrice above him all the heavens 
Opened and blazed with thunder such as seemed 
Shoutings of all the sons of God: and first 
At once I saw him far on the great Sea, 
In silver-shining armour starry-clear; 
And o'er his head the Holy Vessel hung 
Clothed in white samite or a luminous cloud. 
And with exceeding swift...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The House Of Dust: Complete (Long)

..., and tower to tower,
Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew.
And some of them steadily glowed, and some soon vanished,
And some strange shadows threw.

And behind them all the ghosts of thoughts went moving,
Restlessly moving in each lamplit room,
From chair to mirror, from mirror to fire;
From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:
From some, a dazzling desire.

And there was one, beneath black eaves, who thought,
Combing with lifted arms her golden hair,...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad

The Human Face

...ur name 

On absence without want 
On naked solitude 
On the steps of death 
I write your name 

On regained health 
On vanished risk 
On hope free from memory 
I write your name 

And by the power of one word 
I begin my life again 
I am born to know you 

To call you by name: Liberty!...Read more of this...
by Eluard, Paul

The Hunting Of The Snark

...ark.

In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
 In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away---
 For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

THE END....Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

The Lady of the Lake

...Chiding the rocks that yelled again.
     IX.

     Close on the hounds the Hunter came,
     To cheer them on the vanished game;
     But, stumbling in the rugged dell,
     The gallant horse exhausted fell.
     The impatient rider strove in vain
      To rouse him with the spur and rein,
     For the good steed, his labors o'er,
     Stretched his stiff limbs, to rise no more;
     Then, touched with pity and remorse,
     He sorrowed o'er the expiring horse.
...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Last Tournament

...he shape 
Of one that in them sees himself, returned; 
But at the slot or fewmets of a deer, 
Or even a fallen feather, vanished again. 

So on for all that day from lawn to lawn 
Through many a league-long bower he rode. At length 
A lodge of intertwisted beechen-boughs 
Furze-crammed, and bracken-rooft, the which himself 
Built for a summer day with Queen Isolt 
Against a shower, dark in the golden grove 
Appearing, sent his fancy back to where 
She lived a moon in that low...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Man Against the Sky

...and flame-cleft, 
As if there were to be no last thing left 
Of a nameless unimaginable town,— 
Even he who climbed and vanished may have taken 
Down to the perils of a depth not known, 
From death defended though by men forsaken, 
The bread that every man must eat alone; 
He may have walked while others hardly dared 
Look on to see him stand where many fell; 
And upward out of that, as out of hell, 
He may have sung and striven 
To mount where more of him shall yet be given,...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Three Voices

..."Yet still before him as he flies
One pallid form shall ever rise,
And, bodying forth in glassy eyes 

"The vision of a vanished good,
Low peering through the tangled wood,
Shall freeze the current of his blood." 

Still from each fact, with skill uncouth
And savage rapture, like a tooth
She wrenched some slow reluctant truth. 

Till, like a silent water-mill,
When summer suns have dried the rill,
She reached a full stop, and was still. 

Dead calm succeeded to the fuss,
As w...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

The Walk

...d into the tapestried plain!
Kindly decree of the law, of the Deity mortal-sustaining,
Since from the brazen world love vanished forever away.
But in freer windings the measured pastures are traversed
(Now swallowed up in the wood, now climbing up to the hills)
By a glimmering streak, the highway that knits lands together;
Over the smooth-flowing stream, quietly glide on the rafts.

Ofttimes resound the bells of the flocks in the fields that seem living,
And the shepherd's lo...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

White Flock

...it, all are blessed.
In menacing voice of the Sofian ringing
I hear the sound of your unrest.



x x x

City vanished, the last house's window
Stared like one living and stark...
This place is totally unfamiliar,
Smells of burning, and field is dark.

But when the curtain of thunder
Moon had cut, indecisive and wan,
We could see: On the hill, to the forest,
Hobbled a handicapped man.

It was frightening, that he's overcoming
The three horses, sated and g...Read more of this...
by Akhmatova, Anna

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