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Famous Mitigation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Petrarch, Francesco
...y then kindles at my worthless strain.Did not this dread createSome mitigation of my bosom's heat,Death would be bliss: for greater joy 'twould giveWith them to suffer death, without them than to live. If not consumèd quite,I the weak object of a flame so strong:'Tis not th...Read more of this...



by Keats, John
...feeble, cramp'd, and lame.

 "Now let me pass a cruel, cruel space,
Without one hope, without one faintest trace
Of mitigation, or redeeming bubble
Of colour'd phantasy; for I fear 'twould trouble
Thy brain to loss of reason: and next tell
How a restoring chance came down to quell
One half of the witch in me. On a day,
Sitting upon a rock above the spray,
I saw grow up from the horizon's brink
A gallant vessel: soon she seem'd to sink
Away from me again, as though her...Read more of this...

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