10 Best Famous Lowliness Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Lowliness poems. This is a select list of the best famous Lowliness poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Lowliness poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of lowliness poems.

• All Famous Lowliness Poems

 I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.'

'Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,' I cried.
'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart's pride.

'A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.'

 They say that rhyme and rhythm are
 Outmoded now.
I do not know, for I am far
 From high of brow.
But if the twain you take away,
 Since basely bred,
Proud Poetry, I dare to say,
 Would scarce be read.

With humble heart I thus define
 My rôle in rhyme:
Oh may I never write a line
 That does not chime.
And though a verse be nigh as sweet
 As honey-comb,
To please me, let it have the beat
 Of metronome.

So to my modest muse I give
 A grateful pen;
Of lowliness I sing, who live
 With lowly men.
And though I never cease to grieve
 Poetic lack,
I do my best,--please take or leave
 A Verseman's Pack.

 I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.'

'Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,' I cried.
'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart's pride.

'A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.'