Famous Considerate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Broadway Pageant

...ss the perfume pours copiously out of the
 whole
 box. 

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Young Libertad! 
With the venerable Asia, the all-mother,
Be considerate with her, now and ever, hot Libertad—for you are all; 
Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother, now sending messages over the archipelagoes
 to
 you; 
Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad. 

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Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping? 
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


In The Valley Of The Elwy

...the air things wear that build this world of Wales;
 Only the inmate does not correspond:
God, lover of souls, swaying considerate scales,
Complete thy creature dear O where it fails,
 Being mighty a master, being a father and fond....Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

My Dearest Frank I Wish You Joy

...as mild!
His saucy words and fiery ways
In early Childhood's pettish days,
In Manhood, shew his Father's mind
Like him, considerate and Kind;
All Gentleness to those around,
And anger only not to wound.
Then like his Father too, he must,
To his own former struggles just,
Feel his Deserts with honest Glow,
And all his self-improvement know.
A native fault may thus give birth
To the best blessing, conscious Worth. 
As for ourselves we're very well;
As unaffected prose will tell...Read more of this...
by Austen, Jane

Paradise Lost: Book 01

...ace 
Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care 
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows 
Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride 
Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast 
Signs of remorse and passion, to behold 
The fellows of his crime, the followers rather 
(Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned 
For ever now to have their lot in pain-- 
Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced 
Of Heaven, and from eteranl splendours flung 
For his revolt--yet faithful how t...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Song of the Broad-Axe

...t make her gross and soil’d; 
She knows the thoughts as she passes—nothing is conceal’d from her; 
She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor; 
She is the best belov’d—it is without exception—she has no reason to fear, and she does
 not
 fear;
Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp’d songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes; 
She is silent—she is possess’d of herself—they do not offend her; 
She receives them as the laws of nature receive them—she is strong, 
She...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


The Black Cottage

...ther first, 
Then the two sons, till she was left alone. 
(Nothing could draw her after those two sons. 
She valued the considerate neglect 
She had at some cost taught them after years.) 
I mean by the world's having passed it by-- 
As we almost got by this afternoon. 
It always seems to me a sort of mark 
To measure how far fifty years have brought us. 
Why not sit down if you are in no haste? 
These doorsteps seldom have a visitor. 
The warping boards pull out their own ol...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

The Pros and Cons

...He’ll be pleased if I phone to ask him how he is.
It will make me look considerate and he likes considerate people.

He’ll be reassured to see that I haven’t lost interest,
Which might make him happy and then I’ll have done him a favour.

If I phone him right now I’ll get to speak to him sooner
Than I will if I sit around waiting for him to phone me.

He might not want to phone me from work in case someone hears
And begins (or ...Read more of this...
by Hannah, Sophie

To Rosabelle

...found
And culled a pair of fans; wherewith equipped,
Our mountaineer back to the level slipped;
And being landed, with considerate eyes,
Betwixt her elders dealt her double prize;
The small to me, the greater to her sire.
As painters now advance and now retire
Before the growing canvas, and anon
Once more approach and put the climax on:
So she awhile withdrew, her piece she viewed -
For half a moment half supposed it good -
Spied her mistake, nor sooner spied than ran
To rem...Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Winter Complaint

...sneeze out the window 
And I cough up the flue,
And I live like a hermit 
Till the germs get through. 
And because I’m considerate, 
Because I’m wary, 
I am treated by my friends 
Like Typhoid Mary. 

Now when you have a cold 
You are careless with your cold, 
You are cocky as a gangster 
Who has just been paroled. 
You ignore your physician, 
You eat steaks and oxtails, 
You stuff yourself with starches, 
You drink lots of cocktails, 
And you claim that gargling 
Is a time ...Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

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