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Famous Deviate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ite obscure, 
And ceremony dark and sacrifice 
Dimly significant of things to come. 
Blest with this light no more they deviate 
In out-way path; distinguished no more 
By school or sect, Essene or Saducee, 
Cairite or Scribe of Pharisaic mould. 
Jew and Samaritan debate no more, 
Whether on Gerizim or Zion hill 
They shall bow down. Above Moriah's mount 
Each eye is raised to him, whose temple is 
Th' infinitude of space, whom earth, sea, sky 
And heav'n itself cannot contai...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry



...LICENCE answers to the full
Th' Intent propos'd, that Licence is a Rule.
Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take,
May boldly deviate from the common Track.
Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend,
And rise to Faults true Criticks dare not mend;
From vulgar Bounds with brave Disorder part,
And snatch a Grace beyond the Reach of Art,
Which, without passing thro' the Judgment, gains
The Heart, and all its End at once attains.
In Prospects, thus, some Objects please our Eyes,
Which...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

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