Famous Exerted Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Exerted poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous exerted poems. These examples illustrate what a famous exerted poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Byron, George (Lord)
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I could have smote, but lacked the strength;
But the slight motion of my hand,
And feeble scratching of the sand,
The exerted throat's faint struggling noise,
Which scarcely could be called a voice,
Together scared him off at length.
I know no more - my latest dream
Is something of a lovely star
Which fixed my dull eyes from afar,
And went and came with wandering beam,
And of the cold, dull, swimming, dense,
Sensation of recurring sense,
And then subsiding back to death...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
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32. A planet, according to the old astrologers, was in
"exaltation" when in the sign of the Zodiac in which it exerted
its strongest influence; the opposite sign, in which it was
weakest, was called its "dejection." Venus being strongest in
Pisces, was weakest in Virgo; but in Virgo Mercury was in
"exaltation."
33. Intermete: interpose; French, "entremettre."
THE TALE. 1
In olde dayes of the king Arthour,
Of which that Britons speake great ho...Read more of this...
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