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Famous Greif Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Strode, William
...a man, (alas a shell of man!)
Whose innocence, more white than silver swan,
Now finds a streame of teares; such perfect greif
That in the traine of mourners hee is cheife
Who lives the greatest gainer; and would faine
Bee now prefer'd unto his loss againe.
The webb of nerves with subtill branches spred
Over the little world, are in theyr head
Scarce so united as in him were knitt
All his dependants: Hee that strives to sitt
So lov'd of all must bee a man as square
As vert...Read more of this...



by Petrarch, Francesco
...>Lykewyse pleaseth me both death and lyf,And my delight is cawser of my greif. Wyatt.[S]  Warfare I cannot wage, yet know not peace;I fear, I hope, I burn, I freeze again;Read more of this...

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