Famous Connubial Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Menelaus and Helen

by Rupert Brooke
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Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke
To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate
On that adulterous whore a ten years' hate
And a king's honour. Through red death, and smoke,
And cries, and then by quieter ways he strode,
Till the still innermost chamber fronted him.
He swung his sword, and crashed into the dim
Luxurious bower, flaming like a god.

High sat white Helen, lonely...Read more of this...

129. The Calf

by Robert Burns
 RIGHT, sir! your text I’ll prove it true,
 Tho’ heretics may laugh;
For instance, there’s yourself just now,
 God knows, an unco calf.


And should some patron be so kind,
 As bless you wi’ a kirk,
I doubt na, sir but then we’ll find,
 Ye’re still as great a stirk.


But, if the lover’s raptur’d hour,
 Shall ever be your lot,
Forbid it, ev’ry...Read more of this...

72. Song—Young Peggy Blooms

by Robert Burns
 YOUNG Peggy blooms our boniest lass,
 Her blush is like the morning,
The rosy dawn, the springing grass,
 With early gems adorning.
Her eyes outshine the radiant beams
 That gild the passing shower,
And glitter o’er the crystal streams,
 And cheer each fresh’ning flower.


Her lips, more than the cherries bright,
 A richer dye has graced them;
They charm th’ admiring gazer’s sight,
 And...Read more of this...

The Having To Love Something Else

by Russell Edson
 There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his
father for his mother's hand in marriage, and was told he could
not marry his mother's hand because it was attached to all
the rest of mother, which was all married to his father; that
he'd have to love something else . . .

 And so he went into the world...Read more of this...

Absence

by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Good-night, my love, for I have dreamed of thee
In waking dreams, until my soul is lost—
Is lost in passion's wide and shoreless sea,
Where, like a ship, unruddered, it is tost
Hither and thither at the wild waves' will.
There is no potent Master's voice to still
This newer, more tempestuous Galilee!
The stormy petrels of my fancy fly
In warning course across the darkening green,
And,...Read more of this...

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