Famous Definitions Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Definitions poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous definitions poems. These examples illustrate what a famous definitions poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ling particular, Truth, should have miss’d him;
For, spite of his fine theoretic positions,
Mankind is a science defies definitions.
Some sort all our qualities each to its tribe,
And think human nature they truly describe;
Have you found this, or t’other? There’s more in the wind;
As by one drunken fellow his comrades you’ll find.
But such is the flaw, or the depth of the plan,
In the make of that wonderful creature called Man,
No two virtues, whatever relation they claim...Read more of this...
by
Burns, Robert
...possest
Of Her, he thinks superior to the rest.
As cou'd be prov'd, but that our plainer Task
Do's no such Toil, or Definitions ask;
But to be so rehears'd, as first 'twas told,
When such old Stories pleas'd in Days of old.
A King, observing how a Shepherd's Skill
Improv'd his Flocks, and did the Pastures fill,
That equal Care th' assaulted did defend,
And the secur'd and grazing Part attend,
Approves the Conduct, and from Sheep and Curs
Transfers the Sway, and ...Read more of this...
by
Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...as: 'You, that have not lived in thought but deed,
Can have the purity of a natural force,
But I, whose virtues are the definitions
Of the analytic mind, can neither close
The eye of the mind nor keep my tongue from speech.'
And yet, because my heart leaped at her words,
I was abashed, and now they come to mind
After nine years, I sink my head abashed....Read more of this...
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Yeats, William Butler
...un wine ; But that's put in, thou'lt say. Why, so is thine. [AJ Notes:put in...thine, playing on two different definitions of "put in": first, "interjected", second, "stored away". ]...Read more of this...
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Jonson, Ben
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