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Famous Envenom Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...t sighs,
That, when I think thereon, my spirit clings
And plays about its fancy, till the stings
Of human neighbourhood envenom all.
Unto what awful power shall I call?
To what high fane?--Ah! see her hovering feet,
More bluely vein'd, more soft, more whitely sweet
Than those of sea-born Venus, when she rose
From out her cradle shell. The wind out-blows
Her scarf into a fluttering pavilion;
'Tis blue, and over-spangled with a million
Of little eyes, as though thou wert to she...Read more of this...
by Keats, John



...o bounds: 
 Chio is levelled, and loathed by the hounds, 
 For shivered yest'reen was her lance; 
 Sulphurous vapors envenom the place 
 Where her true beauties of Beauty's true race 
 Were lately linked close in the dance. 
 
 Dark is the desert, with one single soul; 
 Cerulean eyes! whence the burning tears roll 
 In anguish of uttermost shame, 
 Under the shadow of one shrub of May, 
 Splashed still with ruddy drops, bent in decay 
 Where fiercely the hand of ...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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