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Famous Rosed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Meredith, George
...second trial. Is the devil's line 
Of golden hair, or raven black, composed? 
And does a cheek, like any sea-shell rosed, 
Or clear as widowed sky, seem most divine? 
No matter, so I taste forgetfulness. 
And if the devil snare me, body and mind, 
Here gratefully I score:--he seemèd kind, 
When not a soul would comfort my distress! 
O sweet new world, in which I rise new made! 
O Lady, once I gave love: now I take! 
Lady, I must be flattered. Shouldst thou wake 
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by Meredith, George
...he bell be late: 
Though here and there grey seniors question Time 
In irritable coughings. With slow foot 
The low rosed moon, the face of Music mute, 
Begins among her silent bars to climb. 
As in and out, in silvery dusk, we thread, 
I hear the laugh of Madam, and discern 
My Lady's heel before me at each turn. 
Our tragedy, is it alive or dead?...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...hey walk'd, and now on cliff,
Lingering about the thymy promontories,
Till all the sails were darken'd in the west,
And rosed in the east: then homeward and to bed:
Where she, who kept a tender Christian hope
Haunting a holy text, and still to that
Returning, as the bird returns, at night,
`Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,'
Said, `Love, forgive him:' but he did not speak;
And silenced by that silence lay the wife,
Remembering her dear Lord who died for all,
And musing...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...e with your likes. 
We brook no further insult but are gone.' 
She turned; the very nape of her white neck 
Was rosed with indignation: but the Prince 
Her brother came; the king her father charmed 
Her wounded soul with words: nor did mine own 
Refuse her proffer, lastly gave his hand. 

Then us they lifted up, dead weights, and bare 
Straight to the doors: to them the doors gave way 
Groaning, and in the Vestal entry shrieked 
The virgin marble under iron heels:...Read more of this...

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