Famous Disposing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1

...stows on thee.
Submit.--In this, or any other sphere,
Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear:
Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r,
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony, not understood;
All partial evil, universal good:
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right....Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


Essay on Man

...s on thee. 
Submit -- In this, or any other sphere, 
Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: 
Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, 
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. 
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; 
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; 
All Discord, Harmony, not understood; 
All partial Evil, universal Good: 
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, 
One truth is clear, "Whatever IS, is RIGHT."

Argument of the Second Epistle:

Of the Natur...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

New Hampshire

...s,
And—writing; none of these except perhaps
The precious literature in quantity
Or quality to worry the producer
About disposing of it. Do you know,
Considering the market, there are more
Poems produced than any other thing?
No wonder poets sometimes have to seem
So much more businesslike than businessmen.
Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

She's one of the two best states in the Union.
Vermont's the other. And the two have been
Yokefellows in the sap yoke from o...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

On a Dead Child

...ie thou there in thy coffin, thy last little bed!— 
Propping thy wise, sad head, 
Thy firm, pale hands across thy chest disposing. 

So quiet! doth the change content thee?—Death, whither hath he taken thee? 
To a world, do I think, that rights the disaster of this? 
The vision of which I miss, 
Who weep for the body, and wish but to warm thee and awaken thee? 

Ah! little at best can all our hopes avail us 
To lift this sorrow, or cheer us, when in the dark, 
Unwilling, alon...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour

Venus and Adonis

...y view, her eyes are fled
Into the deep dark cabins of her head:

Where they resign their office and their light
To the disposing of her troubled brain;
Who bids them still consort with ugly night,
And never wound the heart with looks again;
Who, like a king perplexed in his throne,
By their suggestion gives a deadly groan,

Whereat each tributary subject quakes;
As when the wind, imprison'd in the ground,
Struggling for passage, earth's foundation shakes,
Which with cold ter...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William


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