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Famous Parsimonious Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...rapture at his hand 
And puts the cheap old joy in the scorned dust? 
Is he not such an one as moves to mirth-- 
Warily parsimonious, when no need, 
Wasteful as drunkenness at undue times? 
All prudent counsel as to what befits 
The golden mean, is lost on such an one 
The man's fantastic will is the man's law. 
So here--we call the treasure knowledge, say, 
Increased beyond the fleshly faculty-- 
Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, 
Earth forced on a soul's use while...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert



...me of serpent-kind, 
Wonderous in length and corpulence, involved 
Their snaky folds, and added wings. First crept 
The parsimonious emmet, provident 
Of future; in small room large heart enclosed; 
Pattern of just equality perhaps 
Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes 
Of commonalty: Swarming next appeared 
The female bee, that feeds her husband drone 
Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells 
With honey stored: The rest are numberless, 
And thou their natures knowest, and...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

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