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Famous Roman Catholic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hugo, Victor
...
 The scaffold's shadow were upon his brow. 
 While the child laughs, beyond the bastion thick 
 Of that vast palace, Roman Catholic, 
 Whose every turret like a mitre shows, 
 Behind the lattice something dreadful goes. 
 Men shake to see a shadow from beneath 
 Passing from pane to pane, like vapory wreath, 
 Pale, black, and still it glides from room to room; 
 In the same spot, like ghost upon a tomb; 
 Or glues its dark brown to the casement wan, 
 Dim shade th...Read more of this...



by Lowell, Robert
...imits of day,
hours and hours go by under the crew haircuts
and slightly too little nonsensical bachelor twinkle
of the Roman Catholic attendants.
(There are no Mayflower
screwballs in the Catholic Church.)

After a hearty New England breakfast,
I weigh two hundred pounds
this morning. Cock of the walk,
I strut in my turtle-necked French sailor's jersey
before the metal shaving mirrors,
and see the shaky future grow familiar
in the pinched, indigenous faces
of the...Read more of this...

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