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Famous Petted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...how, the jad! I could bear her, could bear her;
 Guess ye how, the jad! I could bear her.


But a’ the niest week, as I petted wi’ care,
 I gaed to the tryst o’ Dalgarnock;
But wha but my fine fickle wooer was there,
 I glowr’d as I’d seen a warlock, a warlock,
 I glowr’d as I’d seen a warlock.


But owre my left shouther I gae him a blink,
 Lest neibours might say I was saucy;
My wooer he caper’d as he’d been in drink,
 And vow’d I was his dear lassie, dear lassie,
 And vow’...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...othy's chamber undefiled. 
The winds and waters sing afar 
Their song of sighing strange and wild 
To lull to sleep the petted child. 

From head to foot with subtle care, 
Slaves have perfumed her delicate skin 
With odorous oils and benzoin. 
And flowers faint in a corner there....Read more of this...
by Baudelaire, Charles
...only one day
drifting and reeling,
her brown eyes 
beseeching. Then she
was tenderly lifted,
laid on a table,
praised, petted 
and set free.


 -Julie Alger...Read more of this...
by Alger, Julie Hill
...od proof 
That all the rest was darkness and blind sight? 
And who was she? The woman she had known— 
The woman she had petted and called “I”— 
The woman she had pitied, and at last
Commiserated for the most abject 
And persecuted of all womankind,— 
Could it be she that had sought out the way 
To measure and thereby to quench in her 
The woman’s fear—the fear of her not fearing?
A nervous little laugh that lost itself, 
Like logic in a dream, fluttered her thoughts 
An insta...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...A dear old couple my grandparents were, 
And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven 
The lamb that Jesus petted when a child; 
Their faith was never draped by Doubt: to them 
Death was a rainbow in Eternity, 
That promised everlasting brightness soon. 
An old seafaring man was he; a rough 
Old man, but kind; and hairy, like the nut 
Full of sweet milk. All day on shore he watched 
The winds for sailors' wives, and told what ships 
Enjoyed fair weather, and what...Read more of this...
by Davies, William Henry



...des  
Rover of the underwoods  
The green silence dost displace 30 
With thy mellow breezy bass. 

Hot midsummer's petted crone  
Sweet to me thy drowsy tone 
Tells of countless sunny hours  
Long days and solid banks of flowers; 35 
Of gulfs of sweetness without bound 
In Indian wildernesses found; 
Of Syrian peace immortal leisure  
Firmest cheer and bird-like pleasure. 
Aught unsavory or unclean 40 
Hath my insect never seen; 
But violets and bilberry bells ...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...ght the gardens: there 
One walked reciting by herself, and one 
In this hand held a volume as to read, 
And smoothed a petted peacock down with that: 
Some to a low song oared a shallop by, 
Or under arches of the marble bridge 
Hung, shadowed from the heat: some hid and sought 
In the orange thickets: others tost a ball 
Above the fountain-jets, and back again 
With laughter: others lay about the lawns, 
Of the older sort, and murmured that their May 
Was passing: what was ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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