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Famous Liquorish Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...rayed my credulous innocence
With vizored falsehood and base forgery?
And would'st thou seek again to trap me here
With liquorish baits, fit to ensnare a brute?
Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets,
I would not taste thy treasonous offer. None
But such as are good men can give good things;
And that which is not good is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.
 COMUS. 0 foolishness of men! that lend their ears
To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur,
And fet...Read more of this...
by Milton, John



...should he have daunted me from drink:
And, after wine, of Venus most I think.
For all so sure as cold engenders hail,
A liquorish mouth must have a liquorish tail.
In woman vinolent* is no defence,** *full of wine *resistance
This knowe lechours by experience.
But, lord Christ, when that it rememb'reth me
Upon my youth, and on my jollity,
It tickleth me about mine hearte-root;
Unto this day it doth mine hearte boot,* *good
That I have had my world as in my time.
But age, alas...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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