Famous Accession Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Old Deuteronomy

...o has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives
And more--I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;
And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives
And the village is proud of him in his decline.
At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy,
When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,
The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all . . .
Things. . . Can it be . . . ...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)


Psalm 75

...Power and government from God alone.
[Applied to the glorious Revolution by King William, or the happy accession of King George to the throne.]

To thee, most Holy and most High,
To thee we bring our thankful praise;
Thy works declare thy name is nigh,
Thy works of wonder and of grace.

Britain was doomed to be a slave,
Her frame dissolved, her fears were great;
When God a new supporter gave,
To bear the pillars of the state.

He from thy hand received his cr...Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

The Jubilee Sovreign

...ations to tea, 
Including young Albert's grandmother- 
An awkward old . . party, was she. 

She'd seen Queen Victoria's accession
And `er wedding to Albert (the Good) 
But she got quite upset when young Albert 
Asked `er `ow she'd got on in the Flood.

She cast quite a damper on't party, 
But she warmed up a bit after tea, 
And gave Albert a real golden sovereign 
She'd been saving since last Jubilee. 

It `ad picture of Queen on't one side 
And a dragon fight on the reverse,...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

Upon the saying that my VERSES were made by another

...am that ran 
Into a Vast and Boundless Ocean)
Was swallow'd up, with what it joyn'd and drown'd, 
And that Abiss yet no Accession found. 

 Orinda, (Albions and her Sexes Grace) 
Ow'd not her Glory to a Beauteous Face, 
It was her Radiant Soul that shon With-in, 
Which struk a Lustre through her Outward Skin; 
That did her Lips and Cheeks with Roses dy, 
Advanc't her Height, and Sparkled in her Eye. 
Nor did her Sex at all obstruct her Fame, 
But higher 'mong the Stars it fix...Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne

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