Famous Delegated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Geraint And Enid

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As one that let foul wrong stagnate and be, 
By having looked too much through alien eyes, 
And wrought too long with delegated hands, 
Not used mine own: but now behold me come 
To cleanse this common sewer of all my realm, 
With Edyrn and with others: have ye looked 
At Edyrn? have ye seen how nobly changed? 
This work of his is great and wonderful. 
His very face with change of heart is changed. 
The world will not believe a man repents: 
And this wise world of ours is m...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


The Siege of Corinth

...ube's side, 
The chiefs of Venice wrung away 
From Patra to Eub?a's bay,) 
Minotti held in Corinth's towers 
The Doge's delegated powers, 
While yet the pitying eye of Peace 
Smiled o'er her long-forgotten Greece: 
And ere that faithless truce was broke 
Which freed her from the unchristian yoke, 
With him his gentle daughter came; 
Nor there, since Menelaus' dame 
Forsook her lord and land, to prove 
What woes await on lawless love, 
Had fairer form adorn'd the shore 
Than s...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Triumph of Life

...tomies
Sate hatching their bare brood under the shade
"Of demon wings, and laughed from their dead eyes
To reassume the delegated power
Arrayed in which these worms did monarchize
"Who make this earth their charnel.--Others more
Humble, like falcons sate upon the fist
Of common men, and round their heads did soar,
"Or like small gnats & flies, as thick as mist
On evening marshes, thronged about the brow
Of lawyer, statesman, priest & theorist,
"And others like discoloured fla...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The Triumph Of Woman

...e growing fruit,
Creator and Preserver! Reverence Him,
O thou who from thy throne dispensest life
And death, for He has delegated power.
And thou shalt one day at the throne of God
Render most strict account! O ye who gaze
Enrapt on Beauty's fascinating form,
Gaze on with love, and loving Beauty, learn
To shun abhorrent all the mental eye
Beholds deform'd and foul; for so shall Love
Climb to the Source of Virtue. God of Truth!
All-Just! All-Mighty! I should ill deserve
Thy no...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert

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