Famous Candidly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Birds Of A Feather

...'ve had but seven,
 Despite my years are ripe;
I hope they're now enjoying Heaven,
 Although they're not the type;
Nor, candidly, no more am I,
 Though overdue to die.

For looking back I see that they
 Were weak and wasteful men;
They loved a sultry jest alway,
 And women now and then.
They smoked and gambled, soused and swore,
 --Yet no one was a bore.

'Tis strange I took to lads like these,
 On whom the good should frown;
Yet all with poetry would please
 To wash his wass...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Last Instructions to a Painter

...that glorious think and sweet; 
To speak not forward, but in action brave, 
In giving generous, but in counsel grave; 
Candidly credulous for once, nay twice, 
But sure the Devil cannot cheat them thrice. 
The van and battle, though retiring, falls 
Without dosorder in their intervals. 
Then, closing all in equal front, fall on, 
Led by great Garway and great Littleton. 
Lee, ready to obey or to command, 
Adjutant-general, was still at hand. 
The martial standard, Sandys dis...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Song of the Exposition

...ands, 
And ever henceforth Sisters dear be both. 

Fear not, O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you, 
(I candidly confess, a *****, ***** race, of novel fashion,) 
And yet the same old human race—the same within, without,
Faces and hearts the same—feelings the same—yearnings the same, 
The same old love—beauty and use the same. 

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We do not blame thee, Elder World—nor separate ourselves from thee: 
(Would the Son separate himself from the Father?) 
Looking bac...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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