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Famous Nazarite Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...shed burned down. I switched to milk and eggs. 
At night a dream ran up and down my legs. 

I have endured, as Godless Nazarite, 
Life like a bone even a dog would slight; 
All that the dog would have, I have refused. 
May I, of all your subjects, be excused? 
The world is yours, Green Thumb; I smell your heat 
Licking the winter to a green defeat. 
The creatures join, the coupling seasons start; 
Leave me, Green Thumb, my solitary part....Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip



...he bore away old Gaza's pride
Into the deep of the night: —
The bold Jack Johnson Israelite, —
Samson —
The Judge,
The Nazarite.

The air was black, like the smoke of a dragon.
Samson's heart was as big as a wagon.
He sang like a shining golden fountain.
He sweated up to the top of the mountain.
He threw down the gates with a noise like judgment.
And the quails all ran with the big arousement.

But he wept — "I must not love tough queens,
And spend on them my hard earned mea...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel
...t else who never wanted means,
Nor in respect of the enemy just cause
To set his people free,
Have prompted this Heroic Nazarite,
Against his vow of strictest purity,
To seek in marriage that fallacious Bride, 
Unclean, unchaste.
Down Reason then, at least vain reasonings down,
Though Reason here aver
That moral verdit quits her of unclean :
Unchaste was subsequent, her stain not his.
But see here comes thy reverend Sire
With careful step, Locks white as doune,
Old Manoah: ad...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...arrives,
And ills that were concealed are seen; 
The combs of long-defended hives 
Now drip dishonored and unclean; 
No Nazarite or Nazarene 
Compels our questioning to prove
The difference that is between 
Dead lions—or the sweet thereof. 

But not for lions, live or dead, 
Except as we are all as one, 
Is he the world’s accredited
Revealer of what we have done; 
What You and I and Anderson 
Are still to do is his reward; 
If we go back when he is gone— 
There is an Angel wi...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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