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Famous Preclude Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...chagrin doth share; 
Blanc-mange and absinthe are his penitent fare, 
Till his pale aspect makes her over-fond: 
So, to preclude fresh sin, he tries rosbif. 
Meantime the husband is no more abused: 
Auguste forgives her ere the tear is used. 
Then hangeth all on one tremendous IF:-- 
If she will choose between them. She does choose; 
And takes her husband, like a proper wife. 
Unnatural? My dear, these things are life: 
And life, some think, is worthy of the Muse....Read more of this...
by Meredith, George



...That tasks not one labourious hour;
Nor claims the culture of his hand
To blood along the fairy land,
But springs as to preclude his care,
And sweetly woos him--but to spare!
Strange--that where all is Peace beside,
There Passion riots in her pride,
And Lust and Rapine wildly reign
To darken o'er the fair domain.
It is as though the Fiends prevailed
Against the Seraphs they assailed,
And, fixed on heavenly thrones, should dwell
The freed inheritors of Hell;
So soft the scene,...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

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