Famous Censors Poems by Famous Poets

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

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It All Will Come Out Right

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 Whatever is a cruel wrong, 
Whatever is unjust, 
The honest years that speed along
Will trample in the dust.
In restless youth I railed at fate
With all my puny might, 
But now I know if I but wait
It all will come out right.

Though Vice may don the judge’s gown
And play the censors’ part, 
And Fact be cowed by Falsehood’s frown
And Nature...Read more of this...

From right and left the censors came and stood,

by Omar Khayyam
From right and left the censors came and stood,
Saying, «Renounce this wine, this foe of good»;
But if wine be the foe of holy faith,
By Allah, right it is to drink its blood!...Read more of this...

To The Painter Of An Ill-drawn Picture of Cleone

by Anne Kingsmill Finch
 Sooner I'd praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, 
Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles; 
And does that sweet and pleasing Air control, 
Which to us paints the fair CLEONE's Soul. 
'Tis vain to boast of Rules or labour'd Art; 
I miss the Look that captivates my Heart, 
Attracts my Love, and tender Thoughts inspires; 
Nor...Read more of this...

Sonnet XXIV: I Hear Some Say

by Michael Drayton
 I hear some say, "This man is not in love." 
"What? Can he love? A likely thing," they say; 
"Read but his verse, and it will easily prove." 
O judge not rashly, gentle Sir, I pray. 
Because I trifle loosely in this sort, 
As one that fain his sorrows would beguile, 
You now suppose me all this time in...Read more of this...

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