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Famous Prosecute Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ival to remove,
With blandishments to gain the public love;
To head the faction while their zeal was hot,
And popularly prosecute the plot.
To farther this Achitophel unites
The malcontents of all the Israelites:
Whose differing parties he could wisely join,
For several ends, to serve the same design.
The best, and of the princes some were such,
Who thought the pow'r of monarchy too much:
Mistaken men, and patriots in their hearts;
Not wicked, but seduc'd by impious arts.
By ...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John



...victim in the reach 
Of any brother savage, club in hand; 
Hence saw the use of going out of sight 
In wood or cave to prosecute his loves: 
I read this in a French book t' other day. 
Does law so analysed coerce you much? 
Oh, men spin clouds of fuzz where matters end, 
But you who reach where the first thread begins, 
You'll soon cut that!--which means you can, but won't, 
Through certain instincts, blind, unreasoned-out, 


You dare not set aside, you can't tell why, 
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by Browning, Robert
...a thief in spirit? 

What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit? 

And how prosecute you him who in action is a deceiver and an oppressor, 

Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged? 

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? 

Is not remorse the justice which is administered by that very law which you would fain serve? 

Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the hea...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil
...a day of Thanksgiving for thir deliverance from the
hands of Samson, which yet more troubles him. Manoa then
departs to prosecute his endeavour with the Philistian Lords for
Samson's redemption; who in the mean while is visited by other
persons; and lastly by a publick Officer to require coming to the
Feast before the Lords and People, to play or shew his strength in
thir presence; he at first refuses, dismissing the publick officer with
absolute denyal to come; at length per...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...chosen road will thee attend;Yet let it more incite thee, gentle friend,To prosecute thy high-conceived emprize. Nott....Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco



...nd be forbid from schoolyard bounds to roam; 
 For this with blandest smiles he softly asks 
 That they with him will prosecute their tasks; 
 Receives them in his solemn chilly lair, 
 The rigid lot of discipline to share. 
 At dingy desks they toil by day; at night 
 To gloomy chambers go uncheered by light, 
 Where pillars rudely grayed by rusty nail 
 Of heavy hours reveal the weary tale; 
 Where spiteful ushers grin, all pleased to make 
 Long scribbled lines t...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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