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Famous Enhancing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Petrarch, Francesco
...de,Nor tidings new of happiness delay'd,Nor poesie, Love's witchery enhancing,Nor lady's song beside clear fountain glancing,In beauty's pride, with chastity array'd;Nor aught of lovely, aught of gay in show,Shall touch my heart, now cold within her tombWho was erewhile my life and light below!Read more of this...



by Dickinson, Emily
...Sunset that screens, reveals --
Enhancing what we see
By menaces of Amethyst
And Moats of Mystery....Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel
...east awoke.
And they searched out your wounds, your death-warrant tracing.
And the merciful men, their religion enhancing,
Stopped the red reaper, to give you a chance.
Then you died on the prairie, and scorned all disgraces,
O broncho that would not be broken of dancing....Read more of this...

by Nin, Anais
...you. I feel compassion for your childlike pride, for your trembling unsureness, your dramatization of events, your enhancing of the loves given to you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses"...Read more of this...

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