Famous Liberum Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Mare Liberum

by Henry Van Dyke
 You dare to say with perjured lips, 
"We fight to make the ocean free"? 
You, whose black trail of butchered ships 
Bestrews the bed of every sea 
Where German submarines have wrought 
Their horrors! Have you never thought, -- 
What you call freedom, men call piracy! 

Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave 
Where you have murdered, cry you down;...Read more of this...

The Character Of Holland

by Andrew Marvell
 Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land,
As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand;
And so much Earth as was contributed
By English Pilots when they heav'd the Lead;
Or what by th' Oceans slow alluvion fell,
Of shipwrackt Cockle and the Muscle-shell;
This indigested vomit of the Sea
Fell to the Dutch by just Propriety.
Glad then, as Miners that have found the Oar,
They with...Read more of this...

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