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Famous Professes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Smart, Christopher
...the little Owl, which is the wingged Cat. 

Let Ithream rejoice with the great Owl, who understandeth that which he professes. 

Let Abigail rejoice with Lethophagus -- God be gracious to the widows indeed. 

Let Anathoth bless with Saurix, who is a bird of melancholy. 

Let Shammua rejoice with the Vultur who is strength and fierceness. 

Let Shobab rejoice with Evech who is of the goat kind which is meditation and pleasantry. 

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by Smart, Christopher
...gout, and consumptions will be curable. 

For I prophecy that man will be as good as a Lupine. 

For the Lupine professes his Saviour in Grain. 

For the very Hebrew letter is fairly graven upon his Seed. 

For with diligence the whole Hebrew Alphabet may be found in a parcel of his seed. 

For this a stupendous evidence of the communicating God in externals. 

For I prophecy that they will call the days by better names. 

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by Herrick, Robert
...o, which did shiver;
And looking down below,
I spied he had a quiver.

I to my chimney's shine
Brought him, as Love professes,
And chafed his hands with mine,
And dried his dropping tresses.

But when he felt him warm'd,
Let's try this bow of ours
And string, if they be harm'd,
Said he, with these late showers.

Forthwith his bow he bent,
And wedded string and arrow,
And struck me, that it went
Quite through my heart and marrow

Then laughing loud, he flew
Away, a...Read more of this...

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