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Famous Admonitions Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sexton, Anne
...all
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Special person,
if I were you I'd pay no attention
to admonitions from me,
made somewhat out of your words
and somewhat out of mine.
A collaboration.
I do not believe a word I have said,
except some, except I think of you like a young tree
with pasted-on leaves and know you'll root
and the real green thing will come.

Let go. Let go.
Oh special person,
possible leaves,
this typewriter likes ...Read more of this...



by Sexton, Anne
...
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. 

Special person, 
if I were you I’d pay no attention 
to admonitions from me, 
made somewhat out of your words 
and somewhat out of mine. 
A collaboration. 
I do not believe a word I have said, 
except some, except I think of you like a young tree 
with pasted-on leaves and know you’ll root 
and the real green thing will come. 

Let go. Let go. 
Oh special person, 
possible leaves, 
this typewr...Read more of this...

by Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...FOR He, that made, must new create us,
Ere Seneca, or Epictetus, 
With all their serious Admonitions,
Can, for the Spleen, prove good Physicians. 
The Heart's unruly Palpitation
Will not be laid by a Quotation;
Nor will the Spirits move the lighter
For the most celebrated Writer.
Sweats, Swoonings, and convulsive Motions
Will not be cur'd by Words, and Notions. 

Then live, old Brown! with thy Chalybeats,
Which keep us from becoming ...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...peechless,
Child-like, watching his canaries,
And looking at the court-house window
Of the county judge's room,
And his admonitions to me to seek
My own in life, and punish Spoon River
To avenge the wrong the people did him,
Filled me with furious energy
To seek for wealth and seek for power.
But what did he do but send me along
The path that leads to the grove of the Furies?
I followed the path and I tell you this:
On the way to the grove you'll pass the Fates,
Shadow-ey...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...rasp?
But it is so; and I am smother'd up,
And buried from all godlike exercise
Of influence benign on planets pale,
Of admonitions to the winds and seas,
Of peaceful sway above man's harvesting,
And all those acts which Deity supreme
Doth ease its heart of love in.---I am gone
Away from my own bosom: I have left
My strong identity, my real self,
Somewhere between the throne, and where I sit
Here on this spot of earth. Search, Thea, search!
Open thine eyes eterne, and...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ed -- a scant laught with a rattle. 

She told him what she found to tell, 
And Levi listened, and heard well 
Some admonitions of a voice 
That left him no cause to rejoice. 
He sought a friend, and found the stars, 
And prayed aloud that they should aid him; 
But they said not a word of wars, 
Or of reason why God made him. 

And who's of this or that estate 
We do not wholly calculate, 
When baffling shades that shift and cling 
Are not without their glimmering...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...es afar,And with stern vigilance expects the war.Perhaps in vain my admonitions fall,Yet still the Muse repeats the solemn call;Nor can she see unmoved your senses drown'dBy Circe's deadly spells in sleep profound.She cannot see the flying seasons rollIn dread succession to the final goal,Read more of this...

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