Famous Blights Poems by Famous Poets

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

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255. Verses to Miss Cruickshank

...shower!
Never Boreas’ hoary path,
Never Eurus’ pois’nous breath,
Never baleful stellar lights,
Taint thee with untimely blights!
Never, never reptile thief
Riot on thy virgin leaf!
Nor even Sol too fiercely view
Thy bosom blushing still with dew!


 May’st thou long, sweet crimson gem,
Richly deck thy native stem;
Till some ev’ning, sober, calm,
Dropping dews, and breathing balm,
While all around the woodland rings,
And ev’ry bird thy requiem sings;
Thou, amid the dirgeful so...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


London

...alace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

Love and Friendship

...the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He still may leave thy garland green....Read more of this...
by Brontë, Emily

The Demon In Me

...hat perish
We don't collect.
In the body as in a marsh,
In the body as in a crypt.
In the body as in furthest
Exile. It blights.
In the body as in a secret,
In the body as in the vice
Of an iron mask....Read more of this...
by Tsvetaeva, Marina

The Lacking Sense Scene.--A sad-coloured landscape Waddon Vale

...nto her would-be perfect motions, modes, effects, and features 
Admitting cramps, black humours, wan decay, and baleful blights, 
 Distress into delights?" 

IV 

- "Ah! know'st thou not her secret yet, her vainly veiled deficience, 
 Whence it comes that all unwittingly she wounds the lives she 
loves? 
 That sightless are those orbs of hers?--which bar to her 
omniscience 
Brings those fearful unfulfilments, that red ravage through her zones 
 Whereat all creation groans. 
...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


Wheneer I See Those Smiling Eyes

...its every ray, 
And that light heart, so joyous now, 
Almost forget it once was gay. 

For time will come with all its blights, 
The ruin'd hope, the friend unkind, 
And love, that leaves, where'er it lights, 
A chill'd or burning heart behind: 
While youth, that now like snow appears, 
Ere sullied by the darkening rain, 
When once 'tis touch'd by sorrow's tears, 
Can never shine so bright again....Read more of this...
by Moore, Thomas

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