Famous Commits Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Comus

...like to rich and various gems, inlay
The unadorned bosom of the deep;
Which he, to grace his tributary gods,
By course commits to several government,
And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns
And wield their little tridents. But this Isle,
The greatest and the best of all the main,
He quarters to his blue-haired deities;
And all this tract that fronts the falling sun
A noble Peer of mickle trust and power
Has in his charge, with tempered awe to guide
An old and haug...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Crime and Punishment chapter XII

...nor the pigmy in the mist, that knows crime and the punishment of crime. 

Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world. 

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, 

So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. 

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the sil...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil

Edward Hirsch

...l

between them without a dribble, without
a single bounce hitting the hardwood

until the guard finally lunges out
and commits to the wrong man

while the power-forward explodes past them
in a fury, taking the ball into the air

by himself now and laying it gently
against the glass for a lay-up,

but losing his balance in the process,
inexplicably falling, hitting the floor

with a wild, headlong motion
for the game he loved like a country

and swiveling back to see an orang...Read more of this...
by Hirsch, Edward

Fast Break

...l

between them without a dribble, without
a single bounce hitting the hardwood

until the guard finally lunges out
and commits to the wrong man

while the power-forward explodes past them
in a fury, taking the ball into the air

by himself now and laying it gently
against the glass for a lay-up,

but losing his balance in the process,
inexplicably falling, hitting the floor

with a wild, headlong motion
for the game he loved like a country

and swiveling back to see an orang...Read more of this...
by Hirsch, Edward

Love the Soul of Poetry

...lted Poet rais'd by this new Flame, 
With Vigor flys, where late he crept along, 
And Acts Divine, in a Diviner Song, 
 Commits to the eternal Trompe of Fame. 
And thus Alexis does prove Love to be, 
As the Worlds Soul, the Soul of Poetry....Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne


Modern Love XL: I Bade My Lady Think

...I bade my Lady think what she might mean. 
Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, 
And yet be jealous of another? None 
Commits such folly. Terrible Love, I ween, 
Has might, even dead, half sighing to upheave 
The lightless seas of selfishness amain: 
Seas that in a man's heart have no rain 
To fall and still them. Peace can I achieve, 
By turning to this fountain-source of woe, 
This woman, who's to Love as fire to wood? 
She breathed the violet breath of maidenhood 
Agains...Read more of this...
by Meredith, George

Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

...Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won;
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?
Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widows eye

...
And kept unused the user so destroys it.
No love toward others in that bosom sits
That on himself such murd'rous shame commits....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet IX

...And kept unused, the user so destroys it.
No love toward others in that bosom sits
That on himself such murderous shame commits....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet XLI

...Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art and therefore to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed?
Ay me! but yet thou mightest my seat forbear,
A...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

When your hand, on an evening

...When your hand, on an evening of the sluggish months, commits to the odorous cupboards the fruits of your orchard, I seem to see you calmly arranging our old perfumed and sweet-tasting memories.
And my relish for them returns, as it was in former years in the gold and the sun and with the wind on my lips; and then I see a thousand moments done and gone, and their gladness and their laughter and their cries and...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

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