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Famous Borrowing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...bear;
 They hate, revile, and scorn me.


I ne’er could lend on bill or band,
 That five per cent. might blest me;
And borrowing, on the tither hand,
 The deil a ane wad trust me.


Yet I, a coin-deni?d wight,
 By Fortune quite discarded;
Ye see how I am, day and night,
 By lad and lass blackguarded!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...From the French


SOME of the hurts you have cured  
And the sharpest you still have survived  
But what torments of grief you endured 
From evils which never arrived! ...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Adown that valley, lingering long, 
Until the rose is wet with dew,
And robins come to evensong, 

And woo each other, borrowing speech
Of love from winds and brooks and birds, 
Until our sundered thoughts are one
And hearts have no more need of words....Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
..., 
Shedding sweet influence: Less bright the moon, 
But opposite in levelled west was set, 
His mirrour, with full face borrowing her light 
From him; for other light she needed none 
In that aspect, and still that distance keeps 
Till night; then in the east her turn she shines, 
Revolved on Heaven's great axle, and her reign 
With thousand lesser lights dividual holds, 
With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared 
Spangling the hemisphere: Then first adorned 
With thei...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...ar the furnace roar, 
And to watch the private firms smash up 
Like chaff on the threshing-floor. 

Toiling, rejoicing, borrowing, 
Onward through life he goes; 
Each morning sees some scheme begun 
That never sees its close. 
Something unpaid for, someone done, 
Has earned a night's repose....Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...“The wicked one is borrowing and does not pay back,
But the righteous one is showing favor and is making gifts.”—Ps. 37:21....Read more of this...
by Bible, The

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