Famous Oswald Poems by Famous Poets

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

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247. Ode Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive

by Robert Burns
 DWELLER in yon dungeon dark,
 Hangman of creation! mark,
 Who in widow-weeds appears,
 Laden with unhonour’d years,
 Noosing with care a bursting purse,
 Baited with many a deadly curse?


STROPHE View the wither’d Beldam’s face;
 Can thy keen inspection trace
Aught of Humanity’s sweet, melting grace?
 Note that eye, ’tis rheum o’erflows;
 Pity’s flood there never rose,
 See these hands ne’er...Read more of this...

Lover's Song

by Victor Hugo
 ("Mon âme à ton coeur s'est donnée.") 
 
 {ANGELO, Act II., May, 1835.} 


 My soul unto thy heart is given, 
 In mystic fold do they entwine, 
 So bound in one that, were they riven, 
 Apart my soul would life resign. 
 Thou art my song and I the lyre; 
 Thou art the breeze...Read more of this...

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