Famous Humbleness Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Humbleness poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous humbleness poems. These examples illustrate what a famous humbleness poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Sidney, Sir Philip
...arres from me
Where Vertue is made strong by Beauties might;
Where Loue is chasteness, Paine doth learn delight,
And Humbleness growes one with Maiesty.
Whateuer may ensue, O let me be
Copartner of the riches of that sight.
Let not mine eyes be hel-driu'n from that light;
O look, O shine, O let me die, and see.
For though I oft myself of them bemone
That through my heart their beamie darts be gone,
Whose cureless wounds euen now most freshly bleed,
Yet ...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...èd snareWhich folds and fastens with so sweet a graceMy soul, whose humbleness defends alone.Her mere shade freezes with a cold despairMy heart, and tinges with pale fear my face;And oh! her eyes have power to make me stone. Macgregor....Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...d dear,My lone and melancholy heart to cheer,So free from pride, of humbleness such store,In fine, so perfect, though at death's own door,I live, and life no more is dull and drear.Blessèd is she who so can others blessWith her fair sight, or with that tender speechTo whose full meaning love alone...Read more of this...
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Jackson, Laura Riding
...aries
To the assemblage of strange objects
Grown foreign to the faithful countryside
Of one king, poverty,
Of one line, humbleness.
Unavowed and false horizons claim pride
For spaces in the head
The native head sees outside.
The flood of wonder rushing from the eyes
Returns lesson by lesson.
The mind, shrunken of time,
Overflows too soon.
The complete vision is the same
As when the world-wideness began
Worlds to describe
The excessiveness of man.
But man'...Read more of this...
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