Famous Erects Poems by Famous Poets

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

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343. Address to the shade of Thomson

...shade,
Yet oft, delighted, stops to trace
 The progress of the spiky blade.


While Autumn, benefactor kind,
 By Tweed erects his aged head,
And sees, with self-approving mind,
 Each creature on his bounty fed.


While maniac Winter rages o’er
 The hills whence classic Yarrow flows,
Rousing the turbid torrent’s roar,
 Or sweeping, wild, a waste of snows.


So long, sweet Poet of the year!
 Shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won;
While Scotia, with exulting tear,
 Proclai...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


A Description of a City Shower

...ust needy Poet seek for Aid, 
When Dust and Rain at once his Coat invade; 
Sole Coat, where Dust cemented by the Rain, 
Erects the Nap, and leaves a cloudy Stain.

Now in contiguous Drops the Flood comes down, 
Threat'ning with Deloge this Devoted Town. 
To Shops in Crouds the dagled Females fly, 
Pretend to cheapen Goods, but nothing buy. 
The Templer spruce, while ev'ry Spout's a-broach, 
Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a Coach. 
The tuck'd-up Sempstress walks with ...Read more of this...
by Swift, Jonathan

Mac Flecknoe

....
Where their vast courts, the mother-strumpets keep,
And, undisturb'd by watch, in silence sleep.
Near these a nursery erects its head,
Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred;
Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry,
Where infant punks their tender voices try,
And little Maximins the gods defy.
Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here,
Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear;
But gentle Simkin just reception finds
Amidst this monument of vanish'd minds:
Pu...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

The King and the Shepherd

...'d the Event, and Whisp'rers now defame 
The candid Judge, and his Proceedings blame. 
By Wrongs, they say, a Palace he erects, 
The Good oppresses, and the Bad protects. 
To view this Seat the King himself prepares, 
Where no Magnificence or Pomp appears, 
But Moderation, free from each Extream, 
Whilst Moderation is the Builder's Theme. 
Asham'd yet still the Sycophants persist, 
That Wealth he had conceal'd within a Chest, 
Which but attended some convenient Day, 
To face ...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

The Sunrise runs for Both --

...st -- still --

Nor does the Night forget
A Lamp for Each -- to set --
Wicks wide away --
The North -- Her blazing Sign
Erects in Iodine --
Till Both -- can see --

The Midnight's Dusky Arms
Clasp Hemispheres, and Homes
And so
Upon Her Bosom -- One --
And One upon Her Hem --
Both lie --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily


To the Queen

...han his that did with Wind-Mills Fight: 
No, give me Prowess, that with Charms
Of Grace and Goodness, not with Harms, 

Erects a Throne i'th' inward Parts, 
And Rules mens Wills, but with their Hearts; 
Who with Piety and Vertue thus
Propitiates God, and Conquers us. 
O that now like Araunah here, 
Altars of Praises I could rear, 
Suiting her worth, which might be seen 
Like a Queens Present, to a Queen! 

 'Alone she stands for Vertues Cause, 
'When all decry, upholds her La...Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne

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