Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Protestations Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
..." and thar
meaning, in this case, something like "athwart,"

"boreen" has entered English "through the air"
despite the protestations of the O.E.D.):
why, though, should one taillight flash and flare

then flicker-fade
to an afterimage of tourmaline
set in a dark part-jet, part-jasper or -jade?

That smoker's cough again: it triggers off from drumlin
to drumlin an emphysemantiphon
of cows. They hoist themselves onto their trampoline

and steady themselves and straight away di...Read more of this...
by Muldoon, Paul



...NOTE.—Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage—so far as he was concerned at any rate—appears to have been satisfactory.


Now you have read them all; or if not all, 
As many as in all conscience I should fancy 
To be enough. There are no more of them— 
Or none to burn your sleep, or to bring dreams 
Of devils. If these are not sufficient, surely
You are a...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ce I believed in you,
But to-day my need of you has come back.
I want no rose-coloured future,
No books of learning, no protestations and denials--
I am sick of this ugly scramble,
I am tired of being pulled about--
O God, I want to sit on your knees
On the all-too-big throne of Heaven,
And fall asleep with my hands tangled in your grey
beard....Read more of this...
by Mansfield, Katherine

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Protestations poems.


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry