Famous Recognised Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Canzone I

...: "Of this no mention make."I saw her then, in alter'd air, alone,So that I recognised her not—O shameBe on my truant mind and faithless sight!And when the truth I told her in sore fright,She soon resumed her old accustom'd frame,While, desperate and half dead, a hard rock mine became. As spoke she, o...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages

...ods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable,
Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier;
Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.
The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten
By the dwellers in cities—ever, however, implacable.
Keeping his seasons and rages, destroyer, reminder
Of what men choose to forget. Unhonoured, unpropitiated
By worshi...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Lara

...cast 
That sidelong smile upon on the knight he pass'd; 
When Kaled saw that smile his visage fell, 
As if on something recognised right well; 
His memory read in such a meaning more 
Than Lara's aspect unto others wore. 
Forward he sprung — a moment, both were gone, 
And all within that hall seem'd left alone; 
Each had so fix'd his eye on Lara's mien, 
All had so mix'd their feelings with that scene, 
That when his long dark shadow through the porch 
No more relieves the gl...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Original Preface

...efore us, not as a mere individual, 
like those whom the world is wont to call great, but as a type, 
as an emblem--the recognised emblem and representative of the human 
mind in its present stage of culture and advancement.

Among the infinitely varied effusions of Goethe's pen, perhaps 
there are none which are of as general interest as his Poems, which 
breathe the very spirit of Nature, and embody the real music of 
the feelings. In Germany, they are universally known, an...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Sound Sweet Song

...own. In other cases, the date given is that 
of the actual composition. All the poems are arranged in the order 
of the recognised German editions....Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang


South Hill

...e southern hill, 
The north is hard to reach across the vastness. 
On the other bank, I look for my home, 
It cannot be recognised so far off....Read more of this...
by Wei, Wang

Story

...ocks; tired of remembering
The village children and their naughty words,
He abandoned his small holding and went South,
Recognised at once his wished-for lie
In the inhabitants' attractive mouth,
The church beside the marsh, the hot blue sky.

Settled. And in this mirage lived his dreams,
The friendly bully, saint, or lovely chum
According to his moods. Yet he at times
Would think about his village, and would wonder
If the children and the rocks were still the same.

But he f...Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

The Battle of Cressy

...Black Prince and his men fought right manfully,
By this time against some forty thousand of the enemy,
Until the Prince recognised the banner of Bohemia floating in the air;
Then he cried that banner shall be mine, by St. George I do swear. 

On! on! for old England, he cried, on! gentlemen on!
And spur your chargers quickly, and after them begone;
Then the foremost, a slight youth, to the Prince did reply,
My Prince, I'll capture that banner for you else I will die. 

Ha! cr...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

The Importance Of Elsewhere

...home, 
Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech, 
Insisting so on difference, made me welcome: 
Once that was recognised, we were in touch 

Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint 
Archaic smell of dockland, like a stable, 
The herring-hawker's cry, dwindling, went 
To prove me separate, not unworkable. 

Living in England has no such excuse: 
These are my customs and establishments 
It would be much more serious to refuse. 
Here no elsewhere underwrites...Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

The Knights Tale

...slay me, if that me mishap:"
So fared they, in changing of their hue
*As far as either of them other knew*. *When they recognised each
There was no good day, and no saluting, other afar off*
But straight, withoute wordes rehearsing,
Evereach of them holp to arm the other,
As friendly, as he were his owen brother.
And after that, with sharpe speares strong
They foined* each at other wonder long. *thrust
Thou mightest weene*, that this Palamon *think
In fighting were as a wood...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Post That Fitted

...ainly an impecunious Subaltern was not a catch,
But the Boffkins knew that Minnie mightn't make another match.

So they recognised the business and, to feed and clothe the bride,
Got him made a Something Something somewhere on the Bombay side.
Anyhow, the billet carried pay enough for him to marry --
As the artless Sleary put it: -- "Just the thing for me and Carrie."

Did he, therefore, jilt Miss Boffkin -- impulse of a baser mind?
No! He started epileptic fits of an appalli...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Triumph Of Death

...languid eyes, and her beheld,Your love who check'd, my pity who impell'd;I recognised her by that voice and air,So often which had chased my spirit's gloom,Now calm and wise, as courteous then and fail.But e'en to you when dearest, in the bloomOf joyous youth and beauty's rosy prime.Theme of much thought, and muse of many a...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

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