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Famous Aptness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Shakespeare, William
...nge forms receives,
Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,
Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,
In either's aptness, as it best deceives,
To blush at speeches rank to weep at woes,
Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows.

'That not a heart which in his level came
Could 'scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,
Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;
And, veil'd in them, did win whom he would maim:
Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;
When he most...Read more of this...



by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...y;
And yet across my mind it rush'd

With pristine force the other day.
The New-Poetic Catholics
In ev'ry point its aptness fix!

 1815.*...Read more of this...

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