Famous Beshrew Poems by Famous Poets

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

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How long must I make bricks upon the sea?

...How long must I make bricks upon the sea?
Beshrew this vain task of idolatry;
Call not Khayyam a denizen of hell;
One while in heaven, and one in hell is he....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar


Life's well-spring lurks within that lip of thine!

...Life's well-spring lurks within that lip of thine!
Let not the cup's lip touch that lip of thine!
Beshrew me, if I fail to drink his blood,
For who is he, to touch that lip of thine?...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

O Lovely Lie

...Dark truth may be a cancer spot
 'Twere better not to see.
Aye, let a lie be big and bold
 Yet ripe with hope and ruth,
Beshrew me! but its heart may hold
 More virtue than the truth....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan

...Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from my self thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed.
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken—
A torment thrice threefold thus to be crossed.
Priso...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet CXXXIII

...Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:
Of him, myself, and thee, I am forsaken;
A torment thrice threefold thus to be cross'd.
Priso...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William


The Lady of the Lake

...er call
     To friendly feast and lighted hall.
     XVI.

     'Blithe were it then to wander here!
     But now—beshrew yon nimble deer—
     Like that same hermit's, thin and spare,
     The copse must give my evening fare;
     Some mossy bank my couch must be,
     Some rustling oak my canopy.
     Yet pass we that; the war and chase
     Give little choice of resting-place;—
     A summer night in greenwood spent
     Were but to-morrow's merriment:
     ...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Strange Lady

...d in the English tongue. 

"It was an idle bolt I sent, against the villain crow; 
Fair sir, I fear it harmed thy hand; beshrew my erring bow!" 
"Ah! would that bolt had not been spent, then, lady, might I wear 
A lasting token on my hand of one so passing fair!" 

"Thou art a flatterer like the rest, but wouldst thou take with me 
A day of hunting in the wilds, beneath the greenwood tree, 
I know where most the pheasants feed, and where the red-deer herd, 
And thou shouldst ...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

The Wife of Baths Tale

...at I go,
Tell of a Sompnour such a tale or two,
That all the folk shall laughen in this place."
"Now do, else, Friar, I beshrew* thy face," *curse
Quoth this Sompnour; "and I beshrewe me,
But if* I telle tales two or three *unless
Of friars, ere I come to Sittingbourne,
That I shall make thine hearte for to mourn:
For well I wot thy patience is gone."
Our Hoste cried, "Peace, and that anon;"
And saide, "Let the woman tell her tale.
Ye fare* as folk that drunken be of ale. *be...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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