Famous Preferable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A cup of wine is better than the kingdom of Kawous,

...A cup of wine is better than the kingdom of Kawous,
and preferable to Kobad's throne or to the realm of
Thous. The sighs to which, at dawn, a lover is the prey
are sweeter than the groans of praying hypocrites....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar


A cup of wine is worth a hundred hearts, a hundred

...s, a hundred
creeds, a mouthful of this juice divine is worth the Empire
of China. What is there, truly, on the earth preferable
to wine? It is a bitter that is a hundred times
sweeter than life....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

A mouthful of old wine is of more worth than a new

...more worth than a new
empire. The wise man will reject all that is not wine.
A cup of this nectar is a hundred times preferable to
the kingdom of Feridoun. The lid which covers the wine-jar
is more precious than the diadem of Kai-Khosrou....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

Beowulf (Modern English)

...
to help our war-first, while this heat may be so grim,
such a flaming terror. God only knows, in my case,
that it is preferable to me my flesh-home
be embraced in burning along with my gold-giver.
It doesn’t seem right to me that we should bear shields
back to our homes, unless we first should be able
to defeat our opponent and defend the life
of the prince of the Weders. I know it readily
that desert for his deeds is not such that he must,
alone among the Geatish t...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

My Felisberto

...tle fawns of the forest 
and their flip-floppy gymnastics, ah, for this 
and so much more your mergotroid is infinitely preferable. 
But there is a place for darkness and obscurity 
without which life can sometimes seem too much, 
too frivolous and too profound simultaneously, 
and that is when my felisberto is needed, 
is longed for and loved, and then the sun can rise again. 
The bee and the hummingbird drink of the world, 
and your mergotroid elaborates the silent concert ...Read more of this...
by Tate, James


My Felisberto

...tle fawns of the forest 
and their flip-floppy gymnastics, ah, for this 
and so much more your mergotroid is infinitely preferable. 
But there is a place for darkness and obscurity 
without which life can sometimes seem too much, 
too frivolous and too profound simultaneously, 
and that is when my felisberto is needed, 
is longed for and loved, and then the sun can rise again. 
The bee and the hummingbird drink of the world, 
and your mergotroid elaborates the silent concert ...Read more of this...
by Taylor, Edward

O my King! how can such a man as I, finding himself

...e, by dancers, remain a passive spectator?
Oh! to find oneself in a garden with a flask of
wine and a lute are things preferable to Paradise with
its houris and its Koocer....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

Since the day when Venus and the moon appeared in

...Since the day when Venus and the moon appeared in
the sky, no one has seen anything here below preferable
to ruby wine. I am truly astonished at the wine-merchants,
for how can they buy anything superior to
that which they sell?...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

The Joyous Malingerer

...per burner.
If faced with washing up he never gripes,
But simply drops more dishes than he wipes.
She finds his absence preferable to his aid,
And thus all mealtime chores doth he evade.

He can, attempting to replace a fuse,
Black out the coast from Boston to Newport News,
Or, hanging pictures, be the rookie wizard
Who fills the parlor with a plaster blizzard.
He'll not again be called to competition
With decorator or with electrician.

At last it dawns upon his patient spou...Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

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