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Famous Live Over Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Byron, George (Lord)
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I strive to number o’er what days
Remembrance can discover,
Which all that life or earth displays
Would lure me to live over.
There rose no day, there rolled no hour
Of pleasure unembittered;
And not a trapping decked my power
That galled not while it glittered. 

The serpent of the field, by art
And spells, is won from harming;
But that which soils around the heart,
Oh! who hath power of charming?
It will not list to wisdom’s lore,
Nor music’s voice can lure it;...Read more of this...



by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory
...Pass away.

   I keep your memory near my heart,
       My brilliant, beautiful guiding Star,
   Till long live over, I too depart
       To the infinite night where perhaps you are.

   Oh, are you anywhere?  Loved so well!
   I would rather know you alive in Hell
   Than think your beauty is nothing now,
   With its deep dark eyes and tranquil brow
   Where the hair fell softly.  Can this be true
   That nothing, nowhere, exists of you?
   Nothing, now...Read more of this...

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