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Famous Premise Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...n the balm that brightens all? 
This grown man eyes the world now like a child. 
Some elders of his tribe, I should premise, 
Led in their friend, obedient as a sheep, 
To bear my inquisition. While they spoke, 
Now sharply, now with sorrow,--told the case,-- 
He listened not except I spoke to him, 
But folded his two hands and let them talk, 
Watching the flies that buzzed: and yet no fool. 
And that's a sample how his years must go. 
Look, if a beggar, in fi...Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...
With both of us, though in unlike degree, 
Missing full credence--overboard with them! 
I mean to meet you on your own premise: 
Good, there go mine in company with yours! 

And now what are we? unbelievers both, 
Calm and complete, determinately fixed 
To-day, to-morrow and for ever, pray? 
You'll guarantee me that? Not so, I think! 
In no wise! all we've gained is, that belief, 
As unbelief before, shakes us by fits, 
Confounds us like its predecessor. Where's 
The gai...Read more of this...

by Berman, David
...matter.

except as a memory of rest or water.

Though to believe any of that, I thought,
you have to accept the premise

that she woke me up at all....Read more of this...

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