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Famous Relishes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Betrothed to Righteousness might be
An Ecstasy discreet
But Nature relishes the Pinks
Which she was taught to eat --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily



...my life unto my friends or foes:
Yet I love thee.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains,
The lullings and the relishes of it;
The propositions of hot blood and brains;
What mirth and music mean; what love and wit
Have done these twenty hundred years, and more:
I know the projects of unbridled store:
My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live,
And grumble oft, that they have more in me
Than he that curbs them, being but one to five:
Yet I love thee.

I know all the...Read more of this...
by Herbert, George
...is 
Monstrous frenzy of life, the Indian being! 
And there are men in the dream! What men are they? 
I've heard, naught relishes their brains so much 
As to tie down a man and tease his flesh 
Infamously, until a hundred pains 
Hound the desiring life out of his body, 
Filling his nerves with such a fearful zest 
That the soul overstrained shatters beneath it. 
Must I preach God to these murderous hearts? 
I would my lot had fallen to go and dare 
Death from the silent dealin...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles

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