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Famous Compile Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...ro’ the garden gay,
 Or wand’ring in the lonely wild:
 But woman, nature’s darling child!
There all her charms she does compile;
 Even there her other works are foil’d
By the bonie lass o’ Ballochmyle.


O, had she been a country maid,
 And I the happy country swain,
Tho’ shelter’d in the lowest shed
 That ever rose on Scotland’s plain!
 Thro’ weary winter’s wind and rain,
With joy, with rapture, I would toil;
 And nightly to my bosom strain
The bonie lass o’ Ballochmyle....Read more of this...



by Marlowe, Christopher
...he other dies.
125 There might you see one sigh, another rage,
126 And some, their violent passions to assuage,
127 Compile sharp satires; but, alas, too late,
128 For faithful love will never turn to hate.
129 And many, seeing great princes were denied,
130 Pin'd as they went, and thinking on her, died.
131 On this feast-day--O cursed day and hour!--
132 Went Hero thorough Sestos, from her tower
133 To Venus' temple, where unhappily,
134 As after chanc'd, they di...Read more of this...

by Spenser, Edmund
...ine; 
I would assay with that which in me is, 
To build with level of my lofty style, 
That which no hands can evermore compile. 


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Who list the Roman greatness forth to figure, 
Him needeth not to seek for usage right 
Of line, or lead, or rule, or square, to measure 
Her length, her breadth, her deepness, or her height: 
But him behooves to view in compass round 
All that the ocean grasps in his long arms; 
Be it where the yearly star doth scorch the ground, 
Or wh...Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...fly,
Have added feathers to the learnèd's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee.
In others' works thou dost but mend the style,
And arts with thy sweet graces gracèd be.
But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning my rude ignorance....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...o fly
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine and born of thee:
In others' works thou dost but mend the style,
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;
But thou art all my art and dost advance
As high as learning my rude ignorance....Read more of this...



by Field, Eugene
...e Waller Lot
They celebrate the victory won
For charming Sissy Knott.

And I, the poet of these folk,
Am ordered to compile
This truly famous history
In good old ballad style.

Which having done as to have earned
The sweet rewards of fame,
In what same style I did begin
I now shall end the same.

So let us sing: Long live the King,
Long live the Queen and Jack,
Long live the ten-spot and the ace,
And also all the pack....Read more of this...

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