Famous Embellished Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Paradise Lost: Book 03

...top whereof, but far more rich, appeared 
The work as of a kingly palace-gate, 
With frontispiece of diamond and gold 
Embellished; thick with sparkling orient gems 
The portal shone, inimitable on earth 
By model, or by shading pencil, drawn. 
These stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw 
Angels ascending and descending, bands 
Of guardians bright, when he from Esau fled 
To Padan-Aram, in the field of Luz 
Dreaming by night under the open sky 
And waking cried, This is the ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


The Faerie Queene Book I Canto IV (excerpts)

...i

High above all a cloth of State was spred,
And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day,
On which there sate most brave embellished
With royall robes and gorgeous array,
A mayden Queene, that shone as Titans ray,
In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone:
Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay
To dim the brightnesse of her glorious throne,
As envying her selfe, that too exceeding shone.

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Exceeding shone, like Phoebus fairest childe,
That did presume his fathers f...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

The Palace and the Hut XXIX

...taries danced to the soothing music. 

At midnight the finest and most palatable foods were served on a beautiful table embellished with all kinds of the rarest flowers. The feasters dined and drank abundantly, until the sequence of the wine began to play its part. At dawn the throng dispersed boisterously, after spending a long night of intoxication and gluttony which hurried their worn bodies into their deep beds with unnatural sleep. 



Part Two


At eventide, a man attir...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil

The Puzzler

...n "Ums,"
Obliquely and by inference, illumination comes,
On some step that they have taken, or some action they approve
Embellished with the argot of the Upper Fourth Remove.

In telegraphic sentences half nodded to their friends,
They hint a matter's inwardness--and there the matter ends.
And while the Celt is talking from Valencia to Kirkwall,
The English--ah, the English!--don't say anything at all....Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

There was an Old Person of Tring

...
There was an Old Person of Tring,Who embellished his nose with a ring;He gazed at the moon every evening in June,That ecstatic Old Person of Tring. ...Read more of this...
by Lear, Edward


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