Famous Excelled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Beautiful Village of Penicuik

by William Topaz McGonagall
 The village of Penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills,
Is most lovely to see, and the Pentland Hills;
And though of a barren appearance and some parts steep,
They are covered with fine pasture and sustain flocks of sheep. 

There, tourists while there should take a good look,
By viewing the surrounding beauties of Penicuik;
About three miles south-west is the romantic locality
Of Newhall,...Read more of this...

Trilogy of Passion: III. ATONEMENT

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 [Composed, when 74 years old, for a Polish lady, who excelled in
playing on the pianoforte.]

PASSION brings reason--who can pacify

An anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?
Where are the hours that fled so swiftly by?

In vain the fairest thou didst gain from fate;
Sad is the soul, confused the enterprise;

The glorious world, how on the sense it dies!

In million tones...Read more of this...

His Immortality

by Thomas Hardy
 I 

 I saw a dead man's finer part 
Shining within each faithful heart 
Of those bereft. Then said I: "This must be 
 His immortality." 

II 

 I looked there as the seasons wore, 
And still his soul continuously upbore 
Its life in theirs. But less its shine excelled 
 Than when I first beheld. 

III 

 His...Read more of this...

To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses

by John Keats
 As late I rambled in the happy fields,
What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew
From his lush clover covert;—when anew
Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields;
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew
As is the wand that Queen Titania wields.
And, as I feasted on its...Read more of this...

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