Famous Converses Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ode to Pity

by Jane Austen
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Ever musing I delight to tread 
The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove 
Whilst the pale Moon her beams doth shed 
On disappointed Love. 
While Philomel on airy hawthorn Bush 
Sings sweet and Melancholy, And the thrush 
Converses with the Dove. 

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Gently brawling down the turnpike road, 
Sweetly noisy falls the Silent Stream-- 
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Sweeney among the Nightingales

by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
 APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe.

The circles of the stormy moon
Slide westward toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the hornèd gate.

Gloomy Orion and the Dog
Are veiled; and hushed the shrunken seas;
The person in the Spanish cape
Tries to sit on Sweeney’s knees

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