Famous Embellish Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Ditty

...r head a Cremosin coronet 5 
With Damaske roses and Daffadillies set: 
Bay leaves betweene, 
And primroses greene, 
Embellish the sweete Violet. 

Tell me, have ye seene her angelick face 10 
Like Phoebe fayre? 
Her heavenly haveour, her princely grace, 
Can you well compare? 
The Redde rose medled with the White yfere, 
In either cheeke depeincten lively chere: 15 
Her modest eye, 
Her Majestie, 
Where have you seene the like but there? 

I see Calliope speed...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


Bishop Blougrams Apology

..., who is man and nothing more, 
May lead within a world which (by your leave) 
Is Rome or London, not Fool's-paradise. 
Embellish Rome, idealize away, 
Make paradise of London if you can, 
You're welcome, nay, you're wise. 

A simile! 
We mortals cross the ocean of this world 
Each in his average cabin of a life; 
The best's not big, the worst yields elbow-room. 
Now for our six months' voyage--how prepare? 
You come on shipboard with a landsman's list 
Of things he calls con...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Hope is a strange invention --

...
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out --

Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

In my dreams

...eantries.
But how quickly I tire of the game, seeing you gentle and wise, and so little like those whose attitudes men embellish.
Your brow, so shining and pure and white with certitude, your gentle, childlike hands peaceful upon your knees, your breasts rising and falling with the rhythm of your pulse that beats like your immense, ingenuous heart,
Oh! how everything, except that and your prayer, oh! how everything is poor and empty, except the light that gazes at me and w...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

The Shepheardes Calender: April

...te.
Upon her head a Cremosin coronet,
With Damaske roses and Daffadillies set:
Bayleaves betweene,
And Primroses greene
Embellish the sweete Violet.

Tell me, have ye seene her angelick face,
Like Ph{oe}be fayre?
Her heavenly haveour, her princely grace
can you well compare?
The Redde rose medled with the White yfere,
In either cheeke depeincten lively chere.
Her modest eye,
Her Majestie,
Where have you seene the like, but there?

I sawe Ph{oe}bus thrust out his golden hedde,...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


Unfulfilled to Observation --

...
But to Faith -- a Revolution
In Locality --

Unto Us -- the Suns extinguish --
To our Opposite --
New Horizons -- they embellish --
Fronting Us -- with Night....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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