Famous Passable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ruins of Rome by Bellay

...ur premptuous boasts 
Which now their dusty relics do bewray; 
Tell me ye spirits (sith the darksome river 
Of Styx not passable to souls returning, 
Enclosing you in thrice three wards forever, 
Do not restrain your images still mourning) 
Tell me then (for perhaps some one of you 
Yet here above him secretly doth hide) 
Do ye not feel your torments to accrue, 
When ye sometimes behold the ruin'd pride 
Of these old Roman works built with your hands, 
Now to become nought el...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


The Perch

...Perch they called ‘grunts’, little flood-slubs, runty and ready,
I saw and I see in the river’s glorified body

That is passable through, but they’re bluntly holding the 
pass,
Under the water-roof, over the bottom, adoze

On the current, against it, all muscle and slur
In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air

That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold
In the everything flows and steady go of the world....Read more of this...
by Heaney, Seamus

Upon Appleton House to My Lord Fairfax

...;
And stretches still so closely wedg'd
As if the Night within were hedg'd.

Dark all without it knits; within
It opens passable and thin;
And in as loose an order grows,
As the Corinthean Porticoes.
The Arching Boughs unite between
The Columnes of the Temple green;
And underneath the winged Quires
Echo about their tuned Fires.

The Nightingale does here make choice
To sing the Tryals of her Voice.
Low Shrubs she sits in, and adorns
With Musick high the squatted Thorns.
But h...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

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