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Famous Enervate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Pope, Alexander
...e the melting soul.
No wonder then, when all was love and sport,
The willing Muses were debauch'd at court:
On each enervate string they taught the note
To pant or tremble through an eunuch's throat.
But Britain, changeful as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away:
Now Whig, now Tory, what we lov'd we hate;
Now all for pleasure, now for Church and state;
Now for prerogative, and now for laws;
Effects unhappy! from a noble cause.


Time was, a so...Read more of this...



by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...
The sleepless nights, the awful thorn-crowned days, 
Bring sure reward to tortured soul and brain. 
Unmeaning joys enervate in the end, 
But sorrow yields a glorious dividend 
In the long run.

In the long run all hidden things are known, 
The eye of truth will penetrate the night, 
And good or ill, thy secret shall be known, 
However well 't is guarded from the light. 
All the unspoken motives of the breast 
Are fathomed by the years and stand confest 
In the lo...Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...nning was the Word.

In the beginning was the Word.
Superfetation of ,
And at the mensual turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.

A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the Baptized God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned

But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.
. . . . .
The sable presbyters approach
The ave...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...o come,
Till he swept like a turbid torrent, and after him swept -- the scum.
The pallid pimp of the dead-line, the enervate of the pen,
One by one I weeded them out, for all that I sought was -- Men.
One by one I dismayed them, frighting them sore with my glooms;
One by one I betrayed them unto my manifold dooms.
Drowned them like rats in my rivers, starved them like curs on my plains,
Rotted the flesh that was left them, poisoned the blood in their veins;
Burst ...Read more of this...

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