Famous Exclude Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Garden Written after the Civil Wars

...y Isle, 
The garden of the world erewhile, 
Thou Paradise of the four seas 
Which Heaven planted us to please, 
But, to exclude the world, did guard 
With wat'ry if not flaming sword; 
What luckless apple did we taste 
To make us mortal and thee waste! 
Unhappy! shall we never more 
That sweet militia restore, 
When gardens only had their towers, 
And all the garrisons were flowers; 
When roses only arms might bear, 
And men did rosy garlands wear?...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


Houses -- so the Wise Men tell me

...ouses" -- so the Wise Men tell me --
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!

"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there --
Some, would even trudge tonight!...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Paradise Lost: Book 03

...ut hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more, 
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall; 
And none but such from mercy I exclude. 
But yet all is not done; Man disobeying, 
Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins 
Against the high supremacy of Heaven, 
Affecting God-head, and, so losing all, 
To expiate his treason hath nought left, 
But to destruction sacred and devote, 
He, with his whole posterity, must die, 
Die he or justice must; unless for him 
Some other able, and as wil...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 04

...ght with double smart. 
This knows my Punisher; therefore as far 
From granting he, as I from begging, peace; 
All hope excluded thus, behold, in stead 
Mankind created, and for him this world. 
So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; 
Farewell, remorse! all good to me is lost; 
Evil, be thou my good; by thee at least 
Divided empire with Heaven's King I hold, 
By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign; 
As Man ere long, and this new world, shall know. 
Thus whi...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Sighs And Groans

...
I have deserved that an Egyptian night 

Should thicken all my powers; because my lust 

Has still sewed fig-leaves to exclude your light: 

But I am frailty, and already dust; 

O do not grind me! 



O do not fill me 

With the turned vial of your bitter wrath! 

For you have other vessels full of blood, 

A part whereof my Savior emptied hath, 

Even unto death: since he died for my good, 

O do not kill me! 



But O reprieve me! 

For you have life and death at your com...Read more of this...
by Herbert, George


Sonnet XI

...pagenum>[Pg 244] Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam,And softly bend as balmy breezes blow,And where with liquid lapse the lucid streamAcross the fretted rock is heard to flow,Pensive I lay: when she whom earth concealsAs if still living to my eye appears;A...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

To a Common Prostitute

...BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature; 
Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you; 
Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, do my
 words
 refuse
 to glisten and rustle for you. 

My girl, I appoint with you an appointment—and I charge you that you make preparation
 to
 be
 worthy to meet me, 
And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.

Till then, I ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

To One Shortly to Die

...are sick, as I forget you are sick, 
You do not see the medicines—you do not mind the weeping friends—I am with you, 
I exclude others from you—there is nothing to be commiserated, 
I do not commiserate—I congratulate you....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory

...s shine,
And while he proves his essence all divine,
The Atheist sure no more can boast aloud
Of chance, or nature, and exclude the God;
As if the clay without the potter's aid
Should rise in various forms, and shapes self-made,
Or worlds above with orb o'er orb profound
Self-mov'd could run the everlasting round.
It cannot be--unerring Wisdom guides
With eye propitious, and o'er all presides.
Still prosper, Amory! still may'st thou receive

The warmest blessings which a muse...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis

Upon Appleton House to My Lord Fairfax

...nd happy Isle
The Garden of the World ere while,
Thou Paradise of four Seas,
Which Heaven planted us to please,
But, to exclude the World, did guard
With watry if not flaming Sword;
What luckless Apple did we tast,
To make us Mortal, and The Wast.

Unhappy! shall we never more
That sweet Milltia restore,
When Gardens only had their Towrs,
And all the Garrisons were Flow'rs,
When Roses only Arms might bear,
And Men did rosie Garlands wear?
Tulips, in several Colours barr'd,
We...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

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