Famous Relinquish Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Relinquish poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous relinquish poems. These examples illustrate what a famous relinquish poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Burns, Robert
...a roosty rapier—
He swoor, by a’ was swearing worth,
To speet him like a pliver,
Unless he would from that time forth
Relinquish her for ever.
Wi’ ghastly e’e poor tweedle-dee
Upon his hunkers bended,
An’ pray’d for grace wi’ ruefu’ face,
An’ so the quarrel ended.
But tho’ his little heart did grieve
When round the tinkler prest her,
He feign’d to snirtle in his sleeve,
When thus the caird address’d her:
AirTune—“Clout the Cauldron.”My bonie lass, I work...Read more of this...
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Slessor, Kenneth
...er a fool's battue,
As if they've secret ways of dying here
And secret places for their anguish
When boughs at last relinquish
Their clench of blowing air
But this gaunt country, filled with mills and saws,
With butter-works and railway-stations
And public institutions,
And scornful rumps of cows,
North Country, filled with gesturing wood–
Timber's the end it gives to branches,
Cut off in cubic inches,
Dripping red with blood....Read more of this...
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Lawrence, D. H.
...that ply
Awhile and gush forth death and then expire.
And though it be love's wet blue eyes that cry
To hot love to relinquish its desire,
Still in their depths I see the same red spark
As rose to-night upon us from the dark....Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...me present yet!Her, when returning with thy God to dwell,Thou didst relinquish and that fair veil givenFor purpose high by fortune's grace to thee:Love at thy parting bade the world farewell;Courtesy died; the sun abandon'd heaven,And Death himself our best friend 'gan to be. Read more of this...
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