Famous Counterbalance Poems by Famous Poets

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

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438. Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell's Birthday

by Robert Burns
 OLD Winter, with his frosty beard,
Thus once to Jove his prayer preferred:
“What have I done of all the year,
To bear this hated doom severe?
My cheerless suns no pleasure know;
Night’s horrid car drags, dreary slow;
My dismal months no joys are crowning,
But spleeny English hanging, drowning.


“Now Jove, for once be mighty civil.
To counterbalance all this evil;
Give me, and I’ve no more...Read more of this...

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