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Famous Rives Poems by Famous Poets

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

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 To death or marriage;
Scarce ane has tried the shepherd-sang
 But wi’ miscarriage?


In Homer’s craft Jock Milton thrives;
Eschylus’ pen Will Shakespeare drives;
Wee Pope, the knurlin’, till him rives
 Horatian fame;
In thy sweet sang, Barbauld, survives
 Even Sappho’s flame.


But thee, Theocritus, wha matches?
They’re no herd’s ballats, Maro’s catches;
Squire Pope but busks his skinklin’ patches
 O’ heathen tatters:
I pass by hunders, nameless wretches,
 That ape their ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...takes a waft,
To mak a tour an’ tak a whirl,
To learn bon ton, an’ see the worl’.
 There, at Vienna, or Versailles,
He rives his father’s auld entails;
Or by Madrid he takes the rout,
To thrum guitars an’ fecht wi’ nowt;
Or down Italian vista startles,
 Wh-re-hunting amang groves o’ myrtles:
Then bowses drumlie German-water,
To mak himsel look fair an’ fatter,
An’ clear the consequential sorrows,
Love-gifts of Carnival signoras.
 For Britain’s guid! for her destruction!
Wi’ ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...ion with their squadrons filled, 
Their airy sterns the sun behind does gild; 
And gentle gales them steer, and heaven drives, 
When, all on sudden, their calm bosom rives 
With thunder and lightning from each arm?d cloud; 
Shepherds themselves in vain in bushes shroud. 
Such up the stream the Belgic navy glides 
And at Sheerness unloads its stormy sides. 

Spragge there, though practised in the sea command, 
With panting heart lay like a fish on land 
And quickly judged the ...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

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