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Famous Ensnaring Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...the fair presence o’ lovely young Jessie,
 Unseen is the lily, unheeded the rose.
Love sits in her smile, a wizard ensnaring;
 Enthron’d in her een he delivers his law:
And still to her charms SHE alone is a stranger;
 Her modest demeanour’s the jewel of a’....Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...Is there, in human form, that bears a heart,
 A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth!
That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art,
 Betray sweet Jenny’s unsuspecting youth?
 Curse on his perjur’d arts! dissembling smooth!
Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil’d?
 Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,
Points to the parents fondling o’er their child?
Then paints the ruin’d maid, and their distraction wild?


But now the supper crowns their simple board,
 The halesome parr...Read more of this...

by Fletcher, John Gould
...e million intricate threads of life wavering and crossing, 
In the midst of problems we know not, tangling, perplexing, ensnaring, 
Rises one white tomb alone. 

Beam over it, stars, 
Wrap it round, stripes -- stripes red for the pain that he bore for you -- 
Enfold it forever, O flag, rent, soiled, but repaired through your anguish; 
Long as you keep him there safe, the nations shall bow to your law. 

Strew over him flowers: 
Blue forget-me-nots from the north, and ...Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel
...e treasure-pits of Heaven
In fancy's shoes, I march along. 

I wander, seek and peer and ponder 
In Splendor's last ensnaring lair— 
'Mid burnished harps and burnished crowns 
Where noble chariots gleam and flare:

Amid the spirit-coins and gems,
The plates and cups and helms of fire—
The gorgeous-treasure-pits of Heaven—
Where angel-misers slake desire!

O endless treasure-pits of gold 
Where silly angel-men make mirth—
I think that I am there this hour,
Though walking i...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...ds, abasements, penalties --
The imperishable plinth of things
 Seen and unseen, that touch our peace.

For, though ensnaring ritual dim
 His vision through the after-years,
Yet virtue shall go out of him --
Example profiting his peers.

With great things charged he shall not hold
 Aloof till great occasion rise,
But serve, full-harnessed, as of old,
 The Days that are the Destinies.

He shall forswear and put away
 The idols of his sheltered house;
And to Necessi...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...hook her blonde head;
The atmosphere seemed to grow colder:
Not one of my books had she read.

Oh, she was a beauty ensnaring,
And I was an author of note;
But little I saw she'd be caring
If never a novel I wrote.
Alas for the caprice of Cupid!
Alack for the phantom of Fame!
I thought her just homely and stupid:
She didn't know even my name.

I saw her a score of years after;
She gushed as I took off my hat;
But inwardly loud was my laughter,
For she was enormous...Read more of this...

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