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Famous Apportioned Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...m overhead. 
They are flying west, by their instinct guided, 
And for man likewise is his rate decided, 
And griefs apportioned and joys divided 
By a mightly power with a purpose dread....Read more of this...



by Schiller, Friedrich von
...rone.

"If thou in the region of dreams didst delay,
Complain not of me," the Immortal replied;
"When the world was apportioned, where then wert thou, pray?"
"I was," said the poet, "I was--by thy side!"

"Mine eye was then fixed on thy features so bright,
Mine ear was entranced by thy harmony's power;
Oh, pardon the spirit that, awed by thy light,
All things of the earth could forget in that hour!"

"What to do?" Zeus exclaimed,--"for the world has been given;
The harves...Read more of this...

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