Famous Cardinals Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dream Song 6: A Capital at Wells

by John Berryman
 During the father's walking-”how he look
down by now in soft boards, Henry, pass
and what he feel or no, who know?-”
as during hís broad father's, all the breaks
& ill-lucks of a thriving pioneer
back to the flying boy in mountain air,

Vermont's child to go out, and while Keats sweat'
for hopeless inextricable lust, Henry's fate,
and Ethan Allen was a calling man,
all through...Read more of this...

The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxeds Church

by Robert Browning
 Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!
Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back?
Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, I know not! Well --
She, men would have to be your mother once,
Old Gandolf envied me, so fair she was!
What's done is done, and she is dead beside,
Dead long ago, and I am Bishop since,
And as she died so must we...Read more of this...

Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua

by Stephen Vincent Benet
 Next, then, the peacock, gilt 
With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes 
Flow in the eyes! 
And how deep, lustrous greens are splashed and spilt 
Along the back, that like a sea-wave's crest 
Scatters soft beauty o'er th' emblazoned breast! 

A strange fowl! But most fit 
For feasts like this, whereby I honor one 
Pure as the sun!...Read more of this...

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