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Famous Elegantly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Betjeman, John
...r "the Mistress"
Who know not her way of life?
Because she has more of a cared-for air
Than many a legal wife.

How elegantly she swings along
In the vapoury incense veil;
The angel choir must pause in song
When she kneels at the altar rail.

The parson said that we shouldn't stare
Around when we come to church,
Or the Unknown God we are seeking
May forever elude our search.

But I hope that the preacher will not think
It unorthodox and odd
If I add that I glimpse...Read more of this...



by Smart, Christopher
...ancy, who was born for me. 

Tell the blythe Graces as they bound, 
Luxuriant in the buxom round; 
They're not more elegantly free, 
Than Nancy, who was born for me. 

Tell royal Venus, tho' she rove, 
The queen of the immortal grove, 
That she must share her golden fee 
With Nancy, who was born for me. 

Tell Pallas, tho' th'Athenian school, 
And ev'ry trite pedantic fool, 
On her to place the palm agree, 
'Tis Nancy's, who was born for me. 

Tell spotless Di...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...t my breast,
White as the downy swan; while round my waist
Let leaves of glossy myrtle bind the vest,
Not idly gay, but elegantly chaste!
Love scorns the nymph in wanton trappings drest; 
And charms the most concealed, are doubly grac'd....Read more of this...

by McGonagall, William Topaz
...ud as they could blaw. 

And when the bands ceased playing the noble Marquis said,
"This monument I declare is very elegantly made,
And its bold style is quite in keeping with the country I find,
And the Committee were fortunate in obtaining so able a designer as Mr. Rhind." 

Then, turning to the Chief Magistrate of Aberfeldy,
He said, "Sir, I have been requested by the Committee
To give you the deed conveying the monument to your care,
With the feu-charter of th...Read more of this...

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