Famous Purges Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua

.... . . 

There, eat it all or I'll 
Be angry! You feel giddy? Well, it's hot! 
This bergamot 
Take home and smell -- it purges blood of bile! 
And when you kiss Bianca's dimpled knee, 
Think of the poor Pope in his misery! 

Now you may kiss my ring! 
Ho there, the Cardinal's litter! -- You must dine 
When the new wine 
Is in, again with me -- hear Bice sing, 
Even admire my frescoes -- though they're nought 
Beside the calm Greek glories you have bought! 

Godspeed, Sir Card...Read more of this...
by Benet, Stephen Vincent


Sonnet XLV

...for the lengthen'd way.And, with the third, drink of the precious herbWhich purges every thought that would disturb,Sweet in the end though sour at first in taste:But me enshrine where your best joys are placed,So that I fear not the grim bark of Styx,If with such prayer of mine pride do not mix. M...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Character Of Holland

...ommon wealth doth by its losses grow;
And, like its own Seas, only Ebbs to flow.
Besides that very Agitation laves,
And purges out the corruptible waves.
And now again our armed Bucentore
Doth yearly their Sea-Nuptials restore.
And how the Hydra of seaven Provinces
Is strangled by our Infant Hercules.
Their Tortoise wants its vainly stretched neck;
Their Navy all our Conquest or our Wreck:
Or, what is left, their Carthage overcome
Would render fain unto our better Rome.
Unles...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

The Early Purges

...I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound,

Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din
Was soon soused. They were slung on the snout 
Of the pump and the water pumped in.

'Sure, isn't it better for them now?' Dan said.
Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he s...Read more of this...
by Heaney, Seamus

The Medal

..., though the climate, vexed with various winds, 
Works through our yielding bodies on our minds, 
The wholesome tempest purges what it breeds 
To recommend the calmness that succeeds. 

But thou, the pander of the people's hearts, 
(O crooked soul and serpentine in arts!)... 
What curses on thy blasted name will fall, 
Which age to age their legacy shall call, 
For all must curse the woes that must descend on all! 
Religion thou hast none: thy mercury 
Has passed through ever...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John


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