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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There was an Old Person of Tring

by Edward Lear
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...

The Puzzler

by Rudyard Kipling
 The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo,
His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do,
And can logically predicate his finish by his start;
But the English--ah, the English!--they are quite a race apart.

Their psychology is bovine, their outlook crude and raw.
They abandon vital matters to be tickled with a straw;
But the straw that they were tickled...Read more of this...

The Palace and the Hut XXIX

by Kahlil Gibran
 Part One


As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door awaiting the coming of the guests; and upon their velvet garments shown golden buttons. 

The magnificent carriages drew into the palace park and the nobles entered, dressed in gorgeous raiment and decorated with jewels. The instruments filled the air with...Read more of this...

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