Famous Entertains Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford

...You are a friend then, as I make it out,
Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us
Will put an ass's head in Fairyland
As he would add a shilling to more shillings,
All most harmonious, -- and out of his
Miraculous inviolable increase
Fills Ilion, Rome, or any town you like
Of olden time with timeless Englishmen;
And I must wonder what you think of him -- 
A...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

...an smiles,

Princess Volupine extends
A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand
To climb the waterstair. Lights, lights,
She entertains Sir Ferdinand

Klein. Who clipped the lion’s wings
And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Time’s ruins, and the seven laws....Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Last Instructions to a Painter

...ch at those that ran away. 
Nor other fear himself could comprehend 
Then, lest heaven fall ere thither he ascend, 
But entertains the while his time too short 
With birding at the Dutch, as if in sport, 
Or waves his sword, and could he them conj?re 
Within its circle, knows himself secure. 
The fatal bark him boards with grappling fire, 
And safely through its port the Dutch retire. 
That precious life he yet disdains to save 
Or with known art to try the gentle wave. 
Much...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

The Neighbor

...with iron heels 
who drags coffins to and fro at four in the morning, 
who hammers on scaffolding all night long, 
who entertains sumo wrestlers and fat acrobats--
I pass you on the steps, we smile and nod. 
Rage swells in me like gas. 
Now rage too keeps me awake....Read more of this...
by Piercy, Marge

The Sun and Moon must make their haste --

...untenance
Like Glow Worms, flee away --

Oh Poor and Far --
Oh Hindred Eye
That hunted for the Day --
The Lord a Candle entertains
Entirely for Thee --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily


To tell the Beauty would decrease

...e Spell demean --
There is a syllable-less Sea
Of which it is the sign --
My will endeavors for its word
And fails, but entertains
A Rapture as of Legacies --
Of introspective Mines --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Tombstones in the Starlight

...best, and that was none too good;
No barrier could hold, before his terms.
He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.


IV. The Fisherwoman

The man she had was kind and clean
And well enough for every day,
But, oh, dear friends, you should have seen
The one that got away!


V. The Crusader

Arrived in Heaven, when his sands were run,
He seized a quill, and sat him down to tell
The local press that something should be done
About that noi...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy

While I was drawing a horoscope in the book of love,

...ing a horoscope in the book of love,
suddenly, from the burning heart of a wise man came
these words. Happy is he who entertains in his dwelling
a friend as beautiful as the moon, and who has in prospect
a night as long as a year!...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

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