Famous Divorcing Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Divorcing poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous divorcing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous divorcing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Thomas, Dylan
...many sounding minded.
One wound, one mind, spewed out the matter,
One breast gave suck the fever's issue;
From the divorcing sky I learnt the double,
The two-framed globe that spun into a score;
A million minds gave suck to such a bud
As forks my eye;
Youth did condense; the tears of spring
Dissolved in summer and the hundred seasons;
One sun, one manna, warmed and fed....Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
...f Ponthieu, in France.
21. "An allusion," says Mr Wright, "to the story of the Roman
sage who, when blamed for divorcing his wife, said that a shoe
might appear outwardly to fit well, but no one but the wearer
knew where it pinched."
22. Vigilies: festival-eves; see note 33 to the Prologue to the
Tales.
23. Bobance: boasting; Ben Jonson's braggart, in "Every Man in
his Humour," is named Bobadil.
24. "I hold a mouse's wit not worth a leek,
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