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Famous Canonized Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...d, and muttered 'catalepsy'. 
My mother pitying made a thousand prayers; 
My mother was as mild as any saint, 
Half-canonized by all that looked on her, 
So gracious was her tact and tenderness: 
But my good father thought a king a king; 
He cared not for the affection of the house; 
He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand 
To lash offence, and with long arms and hands 
Reached out, and picked offenders from the mass 
For judgment. 
Now it chanced that I had been, 
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by Herrick, Robert
...ve way, give way to me, who come
Scorch'd with the self-same martyrdom!
And have deserved as much, Love knows,
As to be canonized 'mongst those
Whose deeds and deaths here written are
Within your Greeny-kalendar.
--By all those virgins' fillets hung
Upon! your boughs, and requiems sung
For saints and souls departed hence,
Here honour'd still with frankincense;
By all those tears that have been shed,
As a drink-offering to the dead;
By all those true-love knots, that be
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