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Famous Prothalamion Poems by Famous Poets

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

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..."little soul, little flirting,
 little perverse one
 where are you off to now?
 little wan one, firm one
 little exposed one...
 and never make fun of me again."


Now I must betray myself.
The feast of bondage and unity is near,
And none engaged in that great piety
When each bows to the other, kneels, and takes
Hand in hand, glance and glance, care and ca...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore



...CALM was the day, and through the trembling air 
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play¡ª 
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay 
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; 
When I, (whom sullen care, 5 
Through discontent of my long fruitless stay 
In princes' court, and expectation vain 
Of idle hopes, which still do fly away 
Like empty ...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund
...Part I, l. 37, 48.
138. Cf. the game of chess in Middleton's Women beware
Women.
III. THE FIRE SERMON
176. V. Spenser, Prothalamion.
192. Cf. The Tempest, I. ii.
196. Cf. Marvell, To His Coy Mistress.
197. Cf. Day, Parliament of Bees:
 "When of the sudden, listening, you shall
hear,
 "A noise of horns and hunting, which shall
bring
 "Actaeon to Diana in the spring,
 "Where all shall see her naked skin . .
."
199. I do not know the origin of the ballad from which these lines
...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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