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Famous Puissance Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ht and died, 
But either failed to make the kingdom one. 
And after these King Arthur for a space, 
And through the puissance of his Table Round, 
Drew all their petty princedoms under him. 
Their king and head, and made a realm, and reigned. 

And thus the land of Cameliard was waste, 
Thick with wet woods, and many a beast therein, 
And none or few to scare or chase the beast; 
So that wild dog, and wolf and boar and bear 
Came night and day, and rooted in the f...Read more of this...



by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...son gilet montent au chiffre de trentehuit.
“Je la chatouillais, pour la faire rire.
J’éprouvais un instant de puissance et de délire.”

Mais alors, vieux lubrique, à cet âge...
“Monsieur, le fait est dur.
Il est venu, nous peloter, un gros chien;
Moi j’avais peur, je l’ai quittée à mi-chemin.
C’est dommage.”
Mais alors, tu as ton vautour!

Va t’en te décrotter les rides du visage;
Tiens, ma fourchette, décrasse-toi le crâne.
De quel d...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...ower, when fatal course 
Had circled his full orb, the birth mature 
Of this our native Heaven, ethereal sons. 
Our puissance is our own; our own right hand 
Shall teach us highest deeds, by proof to try 
Who is our equal: Then thou shalt behold 
Whether by supplication we intend 
Address, and to begirt the almighty throne 
Beseeching or besieging. This report, 
These tidings carry to the anointed King; 
And fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. 
He said; and, as th...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...strength and might 
There fail where virtue fails, or weakest prove 
Where boldest, though to fight unconquerable? 
His puissance, trusting in the Almighty's aid, 
I mean to try, whose reason I have tried 
Unsound and false; nor is it aught but just, 
That he, who in debate of truth hath won, 
Should win in arms, in both disputes alike 
Victor; though brutish that contest and foul, 
When reason hath to deal with force, yet so 
Most reason is that reason overcome. 
So pond...Read more of this...

by Spenser, Edmund
...d those searthborn brethren blind. 


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Mars shaming to have given so great head 
To his off-spring, that mortal puissance 
Puffed up with pride of Roman hardy head, 
Seem'd above heaven's power itself to advance; 
Cooling again his former kindled heat, 
With which he had those Roman spirits filled; 
Did blow new fire, and with enflaméd breath, 
Into the Gothic cold hot rage instill'd: 
Then 'gan that Nation, th' earth's new Giant brood, 
To dart abroad the thunder bol...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ight years old; and still from time to time 
Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, 
And of her brethren, youths of puissance; 
And still I wore her picture by my heart, 
And one dark tress; and all around them both 
Sweet thoughts would swarm as bees about their queen. 

But when the days drew nigh that I should wed, 
My father sent ambassadors with furs 
And jewels, gifts, to fetch her: these brought back 
A present, a great labour of the loom; 
And therewithal an a...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...ont l'air de nager
Et dans l'amour il entre un peu de leur substance
Elle les interiorise
Je ne suis le jouet d'aucune puissance sensorielle
Et pourtant le grillon qui chantait dans les cheveux de cendres
Un soir près de la statue d'Etienne Marcel
M'a jeté un coup d'oeil d'intelligence
a-t-il dit passe...Read more of this...

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