Famous Variegated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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An Hymn to the Morning

...urning day:
Calliope awake the sacred lyre,
While thy fair sisters fan the pleasing fire:
The bow'rs, the gales, the variegated skies
In all their pleasures in my bosom rise.

See in the east th' illustrious king of day!
His rising radiance drives the shades away--
But Oh! I feel his fervid beams too strong,
And scarce begun, concludes th' abortive song....Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis


Domicilium

...m to sprout a wish 
(If we may fancy wish of trees and plants) 
To overtop the apple trees hard-by.

Red roses, lilacs, variegated box 
Are there in plenty, and such hardy flowers 
As flourish best untrained. Adjoining these 
Are herbs and esculents; and farther still 
A field; then cottages with trees, and last 
The distant hills and sky.

Behind, the scene is wilder. Heath and furze 
Are everything that seems to grow and thrive 
Upon the uneven ground. A stunted thorn 
Stan...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women)

...is a Park!" 
A Park is purchas'd, but the Fair he sees 
All bath'd in tears--"Oh odious, odious Trees!" 

Ladies, like variegated Tulips, show; 
'Tis to their Changes half their charms we owe; 
Fine by defect, and delicately weak, 
Their happy Spots the nice admirer take, 
'Twas thus Calypso once each heart alarm'd, 
Aw'd without Virtue, without Beauty charmed; 
Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her Eyes, 
Less Wit than Mimic, more a Wit than wise; 
Strange graces still, and ...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Lines inscribed to P. de Loutherbourg Esq. R. A

...t dimly seen, 
The neighb'ring rock, whose flinty brow inclin'd, 
Shields the clay cottage from the northern wind: 
The variegated woodlands scarce we view, 
The distant mountains ting'd with purple hue: 
Pale twilight flings her mantle o'er the skies, 
From the still lake, the misty vapours rise; 
Cold show'rs descending on the western breeze, 
Sprinkle with lucid drops the bending trees, 
Whose spreading branches o'er the glade reclin'd, 
Wave their dank leaves, and murmur ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

MFingal - Canto II

...eard
Of tongues an universal concert;
Like Æsop's times, as fable runs,
When every creature talk'd at once,
Or like the variegated gabble,
That crazed the carpenters of Babel.
Each party soon forsook the quarrel,
And let the other go on parol,
Eager to know what fearful matter
Had conjured up such general clatter;
And left the church in thin array,
As though it had been lecture-day.
Our 'Squire M'Fingal straitway beckon'd
The Constable to stand his second;
And sallied forth w...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John


Sonnet CXII

...at would its light impair;Ne'er tinged some showery arch the humid air,With variegated lustre half so gay,As when, sweet-smiling my fond heart away,All-beauteous shone my captivating fair;For charms what mortal can with her compare!But truth, impartial truth! much more might say.[Pg 142]...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Hermit of Mont-Blanc

...Scene. Above the flakes
Of silv'ry snow, full many a modest flow'r
Peep'd through its icy veil, and blushing ope'd
Its variegated hues; The ORCHIS sweet,
The bloomy CISTUS, and the fragrant branch
Of glossy MYRTLE. In his rushy cell,
The lonely ANCHORET consum'd his days,
Unnotic'd, and unblest. In early youth,
Cross'd in the fond affections of his soul
By false Ambition, from his parent home
He, solitary, wander'd; while the Maid
Whose peerless beauty won his yielding heart...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Trees In The Garden

...e.

And the ghostly, creamy coloured little tree of leaves
white, ivory white among the rambling greens
how evanescent, variegated elder, she hesitates on the green grass
as if, in another moment, she would disappear
with all her grace of foam!

And the larch that is only a column, it goes up too tall to see:
and the balsam-pines that are blue with the grey-blue blueness of
 things from the sea,
and the young copper beech, its leaves red-rosy at the ends
how still they are to...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Underneath (9)

...uire

explain the strange weight of meanwhile

and there exists another death in regards to which

we are not immortal

variegated dappled spangled intricately wrought

complicated obstruse subtle devious 

scintillating with change and ambiguity



 Summer

Explain two are

Explain not one

(in theory) (and in practice)

blurry, my love, like a right quotation,

wanting so to sink back down,

you washing me in soil now, my shoulders dust, my rippling dust,

Look I'll scrub t...Read more of this...
by Graham, Jorie

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