Famous Availing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Momus

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 "Where's the need of singing now?"-- 
Smooth your brow, 
Momus, and be reconciled. 
For king Kronos is a child-- 
Child and father, 
Or god rather, 
And all gods are wild.

"Who reads Byron any more?"-- 
Shut the door 
Momus, for I feel a draught; 
Shut it quick, for some one laughed.-- 
What's become of 
Browning? Some of 
Wordsworth lumbers like...Read more of this...

Substitution

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 WHEN some beloved voice that was to you
Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly,
And silence, against which you dare not cry,
Aches round you like a strong disease and new--
What hope ? what help ? what music will undo
That silence to your sense ? Not friendship's sigh,
Not reason's subtle count; not melody
Of viols, nor of pipes that Faunus blew;
Not songs of...Read more of this...

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