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Famous Asserted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
...ic character, engrav'd 
On marble pillar, or the mountain rock, 
Or pyramid enduring many an age. 
She now receives asserted and explain'd 
That holy law, which on mount Sinai writ 
By God's own finger, and to Moses giv'n, 
And to the chosen seed, a rule of life. 
And strict obedience due; but now once more 
Grav'd on the living tablet of the heart, 
And deep impress'd by energy divine, 
Is legible through an eternal age. 


North of Judea now this day appears 
On...Read more of this...



by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...t.
Bees, with prophetic instinct of want, had hoarded their honey
Till the hives overflowed; and the Indian bunters asserted
Cold would the winter be, for thick was the fur of the foxes.
Such was the advent of autumn. Then followed that beautiful season,
Called by the pious Acadian peasants the Summer of All-Saints!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood.
Peace seemed to rei...Read more of this...

by Dryden, John
...ish main, 
Now tamely glad her unjust claim to cease 
And buy our friendship with her idol, gain. 

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Fame of th' asserted sea through Europe blown 
Made France and Spain ambitious of his love; 
Each knew that side must conquer he would own, 
And for him fiercely as for empire strove. 

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No sooner was the Frenchman's cause embrac'd 
Than the light monsieur the grave don outweigh'd; 
His fortune turn'd the scale where it was cast, 
Though Indian mines were in the ...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...-- picking up pins the right way,
Seeing the new moon over the right shoulder,
Or curing rheumatism with blue glass,
I asserted the sovereignty of my own soul.
Before Mary Baker G. Eddy even got started
With what she called science
I had mastered the "Bhagavad Gita,"
And cured my soul, before Mary
Began to cure bodies with souls --
Peace to all worlds!...Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...How his hair is growing thin!")
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!")
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute win reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voi...Read more of this...



by Blake, William
...& governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God.
that we cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding
nations, and asserted that they had rebelled; from these opinions
the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be
subject to the jews.
This said he, like all firm perswasions, is come to pass, for all
nations believe the jews code and worship the jews god, and what 
greater subjection can be.
I heard this with some wonder, & must confess my own
convict...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...rs, rapport of men, 
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers, nor any thing
 that is asserted; 
We hear the bawling and din—we are reach’d at by divisions, jealousies,
 recriminations on every side,
They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my comrade, 
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down, till we make our
 ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, 
Till we saturate time and eras, that the me...Read more of this...

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