Famous Constrain Poems by Famous Poets

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

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54. Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge

...ary was his hair.


“Young stranger, whither wand’rest thou?”
 Began the rev’rend sage;
“Does thirst of wealth thy step constrain,
 Or youthful pleasure’s rage?
Or haply, prest with cares and woes,
 Too soon thou hast began
To wander forth, with me to mourn
 The miseries of man.


“The sun that overhangs yon moors,
 Out-spreading far and wide,
Where hundreds labour to support
 A haughty lordling’s pride;—
I’ve seen yon weary winter-sun
 Twice forty times return;
And ev’ry tim...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


On Receipt Of My Mothers Picture

...
But no--what here we call our life is such,
So little to be lov'd, and thou so much,
That I should ill requite thee to constrain
Thy unbound spirit into bonds again.

Thou, as a gallant bark from Albion's coast
(The storms all weather'd and the ocean cross'd)
Shoots into port at some well-haven'd isle,
Where spices breathe and brighter seasons smile,
There sits quiescent on the floods that show
Her beauteous form reflected clear below,
While airs impregnated with incense pla...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

The Good Man

...liable cement, the gray
jubilees of our demondom.
Coherent
Counsel! Good man.
Require of us our terribly excluded blue.
Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land.
Put hand in hand land over.
Reprove
the abler droughts and manias of the day
and a felicity entreat.
Love.
Complete
your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew
stance, testament....Read more of this...
by Brooks, Gwendolyn

The Interpreter

...r of Music, awake!
Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are at
stake.
By the Rose and the Cross I conjure; I constrain by the
Snake and the Sword;
I am he that is sworn to endure -Bring us the word of the
Lord!

By the brood of the Bysses of Brightening, whose God was
my sire;
By the Lord of the Flame and Lightning, the King of
the Spirits of Fire;
By the Lord of the Waves and the Waters, the King of the
Hosts of the Sea,
The fairest of all of whose daughters was m...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt)

...he sword hath hushed the horn,
His limbs should be weary and fail, and his might be over-worn.
O be wise, lest thy love constrain me, and my vision wax o'er-clear,
And thou ask of the thing that thou shouldst not, and the thing that thou wouldst not hear.

Know thou, most mighty of men, that the Norns shall order all,
And yet without thine helping shall no whit of their will befall;
Be wise! 'tis a marvel of words, and a mock for the fool and the blind;
But I saw it writ in t...Read more of this...
by Morris, William


To King James

...thy subject, JAMES, t'obey  A prince that rules by' example, more than sway ? Whose manners draw, more than thy powers constrain.  And in this short time of thy happiest reign, Hast purg'd thy realms, as we have now no cause  Left us of fear, but first our crimes, then laws. Like aids 'gainst treasons who hath found before,  And than in them, how could we know God more ? First thou preserved wert our king to be,  And since, the whole land was preserv'd for thee....Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben

With a Copy of Shakespeares Sonnets on Leaving College

...wers made sweeter by deep-drunken rain, 
That when years sunder and between us move 
Wide waters, and less kindly bonds constrain, 
Thou may'st turn here, dear boy, and reading see 
Some part of what thy friend once felt for thee....Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

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