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Famous Prides Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Blake, William
...fore you.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise
Folly is the cloke of knavery.

Shame is Prides cloke. 


PLATE 8

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of
Religion.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God. 

Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

The r...Read more of this...



by Killigrew, Anne
...erty does leave the Man entire,
But Sickness nearer Mischiefs does conspire; 
Invades the Body with a loath'd Embrace, 
Prides both its Strength, and Beauty to deface; 
Nor does its Malice in these bounds restrain, 
But shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit, the Brain,
And with a ne're enough detested Force
Reason disturbs, and turns out of its Course. 
Again, when Nature some Rare Piece has made, 
On which her Utmost Skill she seems t'ave laid, 
Polish't, adorn'd the Work with...Read more of this...

by Tessimond, A S J
...preserves,
The shell's end-curves,
A document kept at the back of a drawer,
A tin hidden under the floor,
Recalcitrant prides and hesitations:
To pile them carefully in a desparate oblation
And say to you "quickly! turn them
Once over and burn them".

Now I (no communist, heaven knows!
Who have kept as my dearest right to close
My tenth door after I've opened nine to the world,
To unfold nine sepals holding one hard-furled)
Shall - or shall try to - offer to you
A commun...Read more of this...

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