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Famous Allege Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Milton, John
...ords, I fear, 
And with malitious counsel stir them up
Some way or other yet further to afflict thee.

Sam: He must allege some cause, and offer'd fight
Will not dare mention, lest a question rise
Whether he durst accept the offer or not,
And that he durst not plain enough appear'd.
Much more affliction then already felt
They cannot well impose, nor I sustain;
If they intend advantage of my labours
The work of many hands, which earns my keeping 
With no small profit d...Read more of this...



by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...oths he forthwith buys him

For his mistress many a pledge;
But, alas! some Jews surprise him,

And long-standing debts allege.

And the courts of justice duly

Send the knight to prison straight.
Oh accursed story, truly!

For a hero, what a fate!
Can my patience such things weather?

Great is my perplexity.
Women, debts, and foes together,--

Ah, no knight escapes scot free!

1803.*...Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part.
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...rear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause....Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...>
 I can fish-but Hobden tickles--I can shoot--but Hobden wires.
 I repair, but he reopens, certain gaps which, men allege,
 Have been used by every Hobden since a Hobden swapped a
 hedge.

Shall I dog his morning progress o'er the track-betraying dew?
Demand his dinner-basket into which my pheasant flew?
Confiscate his evening ****** under which my conies ran,
And summons him to judgment? I would sooner summons Pan.

His dead are in the churchyard--thirty generat...Read more of this...



by Byron, George (Lord)
...pt my secret half an age, 
I scarce shall tell it now.' — 'Canst thou upbraid,' 
Continued Michael, 'George Rex, or allege 
Aught further?' Junius answer'd, 'You had better 
First ask him for his answer to my letter: 

LXXXIII 

'My charges upon record will outlast 
The brass of both his epitaph and tomb.' 
'Repent'st thou not,' said Michael, 'of some past 
Exaggeration? something which may doom 
Thyself if false, as him if true? Thou wast 
Too bitter — is it not so? ...Read more of this...

by Marvell, Andrew
...en in vain they have thee all perused, 
You shall, for being faultless, be accused. 
Some reading your Lucasta will allege 
You wronged in her the House's privelege. 
Some that you under sequestration are, 
And one the book prohibits, because Kent 
Their first petition by the author sent. 

But when the beauteous ladies came to know 
That their dear Lovelace was endangered so: 
Lovelace that thawed the most congeal?d breast -- 
He who loved best and them defended ...Read more of this...

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