Famous Compensate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bishop Blougrams Apology

...fficiently, 
The form of faith his conscience holds the best, 
Whate'er the process of conviction was: 
For nothing can compensate his mistake 
On such a point, the man himself being judge: 
He cannot wed twice, nor twice lose his soul. 

Well now, there's one great form of Christian faith 
I happened to be born in--which to teach 
Was given me as I grew up, on all hands, 
As best and readiest means of living by; 
The same on examination being proved 
The most pronounced more...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Jubilate Agno: Fragment B Part 1

...l conveyancers of letters under his care especially Allen and Shelvock. 

For my grounds in New Canaan shall infinitely compensate for the flats and maynes of Staindrop Moor. 

For the praise of God can give to a mute fish the notes of a nightingale. 

For I have seen the White Raven and Thomas Hall of Willingham and am my self a greater curiosity than both. 

For I look up to heaven which is my prospect to escape envy by surmounting it. 

For if Pharaoh had known Joseph, he ...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher

Jubilate Agno: Fragment B Part 4

...n us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. 

For a toad enjoys a finer prospect than another creature to compensate his lack. 

Tho' toad I am the object of man's hate. 
Yet better am I than a reprobate. who has the worst of prospects. 
For there are stones, whose constituent particles are little toads. 

For the spiritual musick is as follows. 

For there is the thunder-stop, which is the voice of God direct. 

For the rest of the stops are by their rhimes. 

...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher

Leaves From Australian Forests - Dedication

...rrows hid, so it might lessen mine, - 
To her, my bright, best friend, I dedicate 
This book of songs. 'Twill help to compensate 
For much neglect. The act, if not the rhyme, 
Will touch her heart, and lead her to the time 
Of trials past. That which is most intense 
Within these leaves is of her influence; 

And if aught here is sweetened with a tone 
Sincere, like love, it came of love alone.
...Read more of this...
by Kendall, Henry

Octaves

...n the seeming, we are all
At one with a complete companionship;
And though forlornly joyless be the ways
We travel, the compensate spirit-gleams
Of Wisdom shaft the darkness here and there,
Like scattered lamps in unfrequented streets. 

IX 

When one that you and I had all but sworn
To be the purest thing God ever made
Bewilders us until at last it seems
An angel has come back restigmatized, -- 
Faith wavers, and we wonder what there is
On earth to make us faithful any more,...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


The going from a world we know

...ike the child's adversity
Whose vista is a hill,
Behind the hill is sorcery
And everything unknown,
But will the secret compensate
For climbing it alone?...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

The Wife of the Mind

...g fences, flooding creeks,
And country bars to huge Washington State,
Where, feeling like a hick, she studied French to compensate.

She graduated middle-of-her-class,
Managed a Senior Center while she flailed
Away at an M.A., from the morass
Of which a poet/rock-singer from Yale
Plucked her. He loved her practicality;
She adored his brilliance. Sex was great.
They married in a civil ceremony.
He played around, for which she berated
Herself, telling friends things were "hunky...Read more of this...
by Webb, Charles

Tho I get home how late -- how late

...Tho' I get home how late -- how late --
So I get home - 'twill compensate --
Better will be the Ecstasy
That they have done expecting me --
When Night -- descending -- dumb -- and dark --
They hear my unexpected knock --
Transporting must the moment be --
Brewed from decades of Agony!

To think just how the fire will burn --
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn --
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself, will sa...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

We are Transmitters

...ple transmit nothing.

And if, as we work, we can transmit life into our work,
life, still more life, rushes into us to compensate, to be ready
and we ripple with life through the days.

Even if it is a woman making an apple dumpling, or a man a stool,
if life goes into the pudding, good is the pudding
good is the stool,
content is the woman, with fresh life rippling in to her,
content is the man.

Give, and it shall be given unto you
is still the truth about life.
But giving...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

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