Famous Redde Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Ditty

...ene her angelick face 10 
Like Phoebe fayre? 
Her heavenly haveour, her princely grace, 
Can you well compare? 
The Redde rose medled with the White yfere, 
In either cheeke depeincten lively chere: 15 
Her modest eye, 
Her Majestie, 
Where have you seene the like but there? 

I see Calliope speede her to the place, 
Where my Goddesse shines; 20 
And after her the other Muses trace 
With their Violines. 
Bene they not Bay braunches which they do beare, 
All for...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


A Lover To His Mistress

...Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde,
And whence the Lilly whitenesse borrowed:
You blusht, and then the Rose with redde was dight:
The Lillies kissde your hands, and so came white:
Before that time each Rose had but a stayne,
The Lilly nought but palenesse did containe:
You have the native colour, these the dye;
They flourish only in your livery...Read more of this...
by Strode, William

Gawain and the Green Knight

...bothe blysse and blunder
Ful skete hatz skyfted synne.
Ande quen this Bretayn watz bigged bi this burn rych,
Bolde bredden therinne, baret that lofden,
In mony turned tyme tene that wroyghten.
Mo ferlyes on this folde han fallen here oft
Then in any other that I wot, syn that ilk tyme.
Bot of alle that here bult, of Bretaygne kynges,
Ay watz Arthur the hendest, as I haf herde telle.

Forthi an aunter in erde I attle to schawe,
That a selly in siyght summe men hit ...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

On A Gentlewomans Blistred Lipp

...e that eye a finer nett
Whose glasse is ring'd about with jett?
Or is an apple thought more sweete
When hony specks and redde doe meete?
Then is the lipp made fayrer by
Such sweetness of deformitie.
The nectar which men strive to sipp
Springs like a well upon your lipp,
Nor doth it shew immodesty,
But overflowing chastity.
O who will blame the fruitfull trees
When too much sapp and gumme hee sees?
Here nature from her store doth send
Only what other parts can lend;
The budde ...Read more of this...
by Strode, William

The Shepheardes Calender: April

...
But now from me hys madding mynd is starte,
And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne:
So nowe fayre Rosalind hath bredde hys smart,
So now his frend is chaunged for a frenne.

THENOT
But if hys ditties bene so trimly dight,
I pray thee Hobbinoll, recorde some one:
The whiles our flockes doe graze about in sight,
And we close shrowded in thys shade alone.

HOBBINOLL
Contented I: then will I singe his laye
Of fayre Elisa, Queene of shepheardes all:
Which once he made, as b...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


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