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Famous Deplores Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...THE FRIEND whom, wild from Wisdom’s way,
 The fumes of wine infuriate send,
(Not moony madness more astray)
 Who but deplores that hapless friend?


Mine was th’ insensate frenzied part,
 Ah! why should I such scenes outlive?
Scenes so abhorrent to my heart!—
 ’Tis thine to pity and forgive....Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...r>

And whoso reads may get him some shrewd skill;
And some unprofitable scorn resign,
To praise the very thing that he deplores;
So, friends (dear friends), remember, if you will,
The shame I win for singing is all mine,
The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours....Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...ONNET L. Al cader d' una pianta che si svelse. UNDER THE ALLEGORY OF A LAUREL HE AGAIN DEPLORES HER DEATH.  As a fair plant, uprooted by oft blowsOf trenchant spade, or which the blast upheaves,Scatters on earth its green and lofty leaves,And its bare roots to the broad sunlight shows;...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET LXXVI. Ahi bella libertà, come tu m' hai. HE DEPLORES HIS LOST LIBERTY AND THE UNHAPPINESS OF HIS PRESENT STATE.  Alas! fair Liberty, thus left by thee,Well hast thou taught my discontented heartTo mourn the peace it felt, ere yet Love's dartDe...Read more of this...

by Goldsmith, Oliver
...ed,
Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,
And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower,
With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,
When idly first, ambitious of the town,
She left her wheel and robes of country brown.

Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train,
Do thy fair tribes participate her pain?
E'en now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led,
At proud men's doors they ask a little bread!

Ah, no!—To distant climes, a dreary scene,
Where half th...Read more of this...



by Turner Smith, Charlotte
...hand,
Nothing but good: Yet Man, misguided Man,
Mars the fair work that he was bid enjoy,
And makes himself the evil he deplores.
How often, when my weary soul recoils
From proud oppression, and from legal crimes
(For such are in this Land, where the vain boast
Of equal Law is mockery, while the cost
Of seeking for redress is sure to plunge
Th' already injur'd to more certain ruin
And the wretch starves, before his Counsel pleads)
How often do I half abjure Society,
And s...Read more of this...

by Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...is Tale, 
How Rich he'd been, how quick his Sale, 
Which do's for scanty Alms prevail. 
The Chance of War whilst he deplores, 
And dines at Charitable Doors; 
The Man of Letters, known by Fame, 
Was welcom'd, wheresoe'er he came. 
Still, Potentates entreat his Stay, 
Whose Coaches meet him on the Way: 
And Universities contest 
Which shall exceed, or use him best. 
Amaz'd the Burgomaster sees 
On Foot, and scorn'd such Turns as these; 
And sighing, now deplores to...Read more of this...

by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...Dear critic, who my lightness so deplores,
Would I might study to be prince of bores,
Right wisely would I rule that dull estate—
But, sir, I may not, till you abdicate.
...Read more of this...

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