Famous Condemning Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The World

by George Herbert
 1 I saw Eternity the other night,
2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
3 All calm, as it was bright;
4 And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
5 Driv'n by the spheres
6 Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world
7 And all her train were hurl'd.
8 The doting lover in his quaintest strain
9 Did there...Read more of this...

The Passing Of The Year

by Robert William Service
 My glass is filled, my pipe is lit,
 My den is all a cosy glow;
And snug before the fire I sit,
 And wait to feel the old year go.
I dedicate to solemn thought
 Amid my too-unthinking days,
This sober moment, sadly fraught
 With much of blame, with little praise.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time
 You stand to bow your...Read more of this...

Sonnet XXXVIII: Sitting Alone Love

by Michael Drayton
 Sitting alone, Love bids me go and write; 
Reason plucks back, commanding me to stay, 
Boasting that she doth still direct the way, 
Or else Love were unable to endite. 
Love, growing angry, vexed at the spleen 
And scorning Reason's maimed argument, 
Straight taxeth Reason, wanting to invent, 
Where she with Love conversing hath not been. 
Reason, reproached with...Read more of this...

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