Famous Change Of Heart Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Geraint And Enid

...have ye looked 
At Edyrn? have ye seen how nobly changed? 
This work of his is great and wonderful. 
His very face with change of heart is changed. 
The world will not believe a man repents: 
And this wise world of ours is mainly right. 
Full seldom doth a man repent, or use 
Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch 
Of blood and custom wholly out of him, 
And make all clean, and plant himself afresh. 
Edyrn has done it, weeding all his heart 
As I will weed this land b...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Hymn 160

...Custom in sin.

Let the wild leopards of the wood
Put off the spots that nature gives,
Then may the wicked turn to God,
And change their tempers and their lives.

As well might Ethiopian slaves
Wash out the darkness of their skin,
The deed as well might leave their graves,
As old transgressors cease to sin.

Where vice has held its empire long,
'Twill not ...Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

Stay

...For why cometh a time,

When you forget yesterday?

Forgot our vows that we made,

And turn and walk away.
*****
How can a heart forget,

The love we once had?

And turn yourself against me,

And make my soul so sad.
*****
You’ve found someone better,

And you’ll leave us behind;

You think you can change your heart,

And erase your troubled mind.
*****
Ho...Read more of this...
by Bachmann, Ingeborg

the arrival of spring (cathe waller)

...orms beating my head
houses trees with a sucked-out look
new year flaked from the old one's hook

then overnight such a change of heart
spring come home with her confectionery cart
hundreds-and-thousands strewn in the breeze
houses sampling them as well as the trees

people savouring them in punts on the river
earth knee-deep in them praising the giver
so (blankets off) i'm out in the streets
glutton for spring and her burst bag of sweets...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

The Heritage

...CRY out on Time that he may take away
Your cold philosophies that give no hint
Of spirit-quickened flesh; fall down and pray
That Death come never with a face of flint:
Death is our heritage; with Life we share 5
The sunlight that must own his darkening hour:
Within his very presence yet we dare
To gather gladness like a fading flower.

For even as...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried


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