Famous Angell Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Angell poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous angell poems. These examples illustrate what a famous angell poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ight
To witlesse things, then Loue, I hope (since wit
Becomes a clog) will soone ease me of it.
LX
When my good Angell guides me to the place
Where all my good I doe in Stella see,
That heau'n of ioyes throwes onely downe on me
Thundring disdaines and lightnings of disgrace;
But when the ruggedst step of Fortunes race
Makes me fall from her sight, then sweetly she,
With words wherein the Muses treasures be,
Shewes loue and pitie to my absent case.
Now I, wit-b...Read more of this...
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Sidney, Sir Philip
...mighty race, 150
Clad all in white, that seemes a virgin best.
So well it her beseemes, that ye would weene
Some angell she had beene.
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre,
Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, 155
Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre;
And, being crown¨¨d with a girland greene,
Seeme lyke some mayden Queene.
Her modest eyes, abash¨¨d to behold
So many gazers as on her do stare, 160
Upon the lowly ground affix¨¨d are...Read more of this...
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Spenser, Edmund
...eath
Sound like a sentence pass'd for death;
Your dangling tresses are become
Like instruments of finall doome.
O if an Angell torture so,
When life is done where shall I goe?...Read more of this...
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Strode, William
...Come hither, lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night,
For yonder fares an angell yclad in raimaunt white,
And yonder sings ye angell as onely angells may,
And his songe ben of a garden that bloometh farre awaye.
To them that have no lyttel childe Godde sometimes sendeth down
A lyttel childe that ben a lyttel lambkyn of his owne;
And if so bee they love that childe, He willeth it to staye,
But elsewise, in His mercie He taketh it ...Read more of this...
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Field, Eugene
...to run her mighty race,
Clad all in white, that seemes a virgin best.
So well it her beseemes that ye would weene
Some angell she had beene.
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre,
Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres a tweene,
Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre,
And being crowned with a girland greene,
Seeme lyke some mayden Queene,
Her modest eyes abashed to behold
So many gazers, as on her do stare,
Vpon the lowly ground affixed are.
Ne dare lift vp her count...Read more of this...
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Spenser, Edmund
...und mee againe and more and more,
So you againe will mee restore,
But if resemblance tell the father
I think hee was an Angell rather....Read more of this...
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Strode, William
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