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Famous Becometh Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Raleigh, Sir Walter
...and be thy Love. 

But Time drives flocks from field to fold; 
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; 
And Philomel becometh dumb; 
The rest complains of cares to come. 

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields 
To wayward Winter reckoning yields: 
A honey tongue, a heart of gall, 
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, 
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, 
Soon break, soon wither--soon forgotten, 
In folly ripe, in reason...Read more of this...



by Dickinson, Emily
...-- thou -- not there --
I had as lief they bore
No Crimson -- more --

Thy flower -- be gay --
Her Lord -- away!
It ill becometh me --
I'll dwell in Calyx -- Gray --
How modestly -- alway --
Thy Daisy --
Draped for thee!...Read more of this...

by Drayton, Michael
...Dear, why should you command me to my rest
When now the night doth summon all to sleep?
Methinks this time becometh lovers best;
Night was ordain'd together friends to keep.
How happy are all other living things
Which, though the day disjoin by sev'ral flight,
The quiet ev'ning yet together brings,
And each returns unto his love at night!
O thou that art so courteous else to all,
Why should'st thou, Night, abuse me only thus,
That ev'ry creature to his kind d...Read more of this...

by Sidney, Sir Philip
...take fast hold, let that light be thy guide, 
In this small course which birth draws out to death, 
And think how evil becometh him to slide, 
Who seeketh heaven, and comes of heavenly breath. 
Then farewell world, thy uttermost I see, 
Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me....Read more of this...

by Sidney, Sir Philip
...
O, take fast hold; let that light be thy guide
In this small course which birth draws out to death,
And think how evil becometh him to slide
Who seeketh heaven, and comes of heavenly breath.
Then farewell, world! thy uttermost I see:
Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me....Read more of this...



by Drayton, Michael
...Dear, why should you command me to my rest 
When now the night doth summon all to sleep? 
Methinks this time becometh lovers best; 
Night was ordain'd, together friends to keep; 
How happy are all other living things 
Which through the day disjoin by sev'ral flight, 
The quiet ev'ning yet together brings, 
And each returns unto his love at night. 
O thou, that art so courteous else to all, 
Why shouldst thou, Night, abuse me only thus, 
That ev'ry creature to h...Read more of this...

by Sidney, Sir Philip
...O take fast hold! let that light be thy guide 
In this small course which birth draws out to death, 
And think how evil becometh him to slide 
Who seeketh Heaven, and comes of heavenly breath. 
Then farewell, world! thy uttermost I see: 
Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me!...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men --
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty --...Read more of this...

by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...oth 
disclose.
Soon and in silence is check'd the growth of the vigorous branches,

And the rib of the stalk fuller becometh in form.
Leafless, however, and quick the tenderer stem then up-springeth,

And a miraculous sight doth the observer enchant.
Ranged in a circle, in numbers that now are small, and now countless,

Gather the smaller-sized leaves, close by the side 
of their like.
Round the axis compress'd the sheltering calyx unfoldeth,

And, as the perf...Read more of this...

by Raleigh, Sir Walter
...e and be thy love. 

Time drives the flocks from field to fold 
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, 
And Philomel becometh dumb; 
The rest complains of cares to come. 

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields 
To wayward winter reckoning yields; 
A honey tongue, a heart of gall, 
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 

The gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, 
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies 
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,—
In folly ripe, in reason ...Read more of this...

by Bodenham, John
...e and be thy love. 

Time drives the flocks from field to fold 
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, 
And Philomel becometh dumb; 
The rest complains of cares to come. 

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields 
To wayward winter reckoning yields; 
A honey tongue, a heart of gall, 
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 

The gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, 
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies 
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,— 
In folly ripe, in reason...Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...person than the hero of his friend Mr. Southey's heaven, — yea, even George the Third! See also how personal Savage becometh, when he hath a mind. The following is his portrait of our late gracious sovereign: 

(Prince Gebir having descended into the infernal regions, the shades of his royal ancestors are, at his request, called up to his view; and he exclaims to
his ghostly guide) — 

'Aroar, what wretch that nearest us? what wretch 
Is that with eyebrows white and s...Read more of this...

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