Famous Marring Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Marring poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous marring poems. These examples illustrate what a famous marring poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...e and merely clay.
Were this no pleasure, lying in the thyme,
Drinking the mash, with brain become alive,
Making and marring clay at will? So He.
'Thinketh, such shows nor right nor wrong in Him,
Nor kind, nor cruel: He is strong and Lord.
'Am strong myself compared to yonder crabs
That march now from the mountain to the sea;
'Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,
Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.
'Say, the first straggler that boasts purple spots
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Browning, Robert
...to time I feel through all my soulA sweetness so unusual and new,That every marring careAnd gloomy vision thence begins to roll,So that, from all, one only thought is there.That—that alone consoles me life to bear:And could but this my joy endure awhile,Nought earthly could, methinks, then match my state.Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
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The fire of Thine inscrutable Will them burn,
Scattering, destroying,—yea since finisheth
All things, or death, or marring grief, or change;
Since this is, this must needs Thy purpose be,
Through such dark doors to win Thy works to Thee.
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Hafez,
...thy sainted mother died;
And such the sounds which, while I strove
To wake a lay of war or love,
Came marring all the festal mirth,
Appalling me who gave them birth,
And, disobedient to my call,
Wailed loud through Bothwell's bannered hall.
Ere Douglases, to ruin driven,
Were exiled from their native heaven.—
O! if yet worse mishap and woe
My master's house must undergo,
Or aught but weal to Ellen fair
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Scott, Sir Walter
...ess; there her palms she laid,And did commit them to the Tuscan youth,Whose marring scars bear witness of his truth:With others more, whose names I fully knew,(My guide instructed me,) that overthrewThe power of Love: 'mongst whom, of all the rest,Hippolytus and Joseph were the best. Anna Hume....Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
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