Famous Ast Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Letter To Doctor Ingelo then With My Lord Whitlock Amba

...id facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli,
Ingele, proh sero cognite, rapte cito?
Num satis Hybernum defendis pellibus Astrum,
Qui modo tam mollis nec bene firmus eras?
Quae Gentes Hominum, quae sit Natura Locorum,
Sint Homines, potius dic ibi sintre Loca?
Num gravis horrisono Polus obruit omnia lapsu,
Jungitur & praeceps Mundas utraque nive?
An melius canis horrescit Campus Aristis,
Amuius Agricolis & redit Orbe labor?
Incolit, ut fertur, saevam Gens mitior Oram,
Pace vigil...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


Aliter

...Regibus haec posuit Ludovicus Templa futuris;
Gratior ast ipsi Castra fuere Domus....Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Hortus

...vidi (quis credat?) Amantes
Sculpentes Dominae potiori in cortice nomen?
Nec puduit truncis inscribere vulnera sacris.
Ast Ego, si vestras unquam temeravero stirpes,
Nulla Neaera, Chloe, Faustina, Corynna, legetur:
In proprio sed quaeque libro signabitur Arbos.
O charae Platanus, Cyparissus, Populus, Ulnus!
Hic Amor, exutis crepidatus inambulat alis,
Enerves arcus & stridula tela reponens,
Invertitque faces, nec se cupit usque timeri;
Aut experrectus jacet, indormitque phare...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

How Lucy Backslid

...h out a gale.
Dat 's whut made dis ooman's trouble; ef de sto'm had kep' away,
She 'd 'a' had enough 'uligion fu' to lasted out huh day.
Lucy went wid 'Lishy Davis, but w'en she jined chu'ch, you know
Dah was lots o' little places dat, of cose, she could n't go;
An' she had to gin up dancin' an' huh singin' an' huh play.—
Now hit's nachul dat sich goin's-on 'u'd drive a man away.
So, w'en Lucy got so solemn, Ike he sta'ted fu' to go
Wid a gal who was a sinnah an' coul...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Knee-Deep in June

...est 
Tucked up there conveenently 
Fer the boy 'at's ap' to be 
Up some other apple tree! 
Watch the swallers skootin' past 
Bout as peert as you could ast; 
Er the Bob-white raise and whiz 
Where some other's whistle is. 

Ketch a shadder down below, 
And look up to find the crow -- 
Er a hawk, - away up there, 
'Pearantly froze in the air! -- 
Hear the old hen squawk, and squat 
Over ever' chick she's got, 
Suddent-like! - and she knows where 
That-air hawk is, well as you!...Read more of this...
by Riley, James Whitcomb


On The Death Of Sir Tho: Peltham

...to him were told
Enough to make another olde.
O that Death would still doe soe;
Or else on good men would bestow
That wast of years which unthrifts fling
Away by theyr distempering,
That some might thrive by this decay
As well as that of land and clay.
'Twas now well done: no cause to moane
On such a seasonable stone.
Where death is but an Host, we sinne
Not bidding welcome to his Inne.
Sleepe, sleepe, thy rest, good man, embrace;
Sleepe, sleepe, th' ast trode a weary race....Read more of this...
by Strode, William

The Protest

...'s the look of a 'orse and the way that 'e moves 
That I'd know any day. 

What was the boy on 'is back? 
Why, 'e went past 
All of a minute, and off down the track. 
-- "The 'orse went as fast?" 
True, so 'e did! But my eyes, what a treat! 
'Ow can I notice the 'ands and the seat 
Of each bumble-faced kid of a boy that I meet? 
Lor'! What a question to ast! 
(Protest Dismissed)...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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