Famous Rued Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dust of Snow

by Robert Frost
 The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued....Read more of this...

450. Monody on a Lady famed for her Caprice

by Robert Burns
 HOW cold is that bosom which folly once fired,
 How pale is that cheek where the rouge lately glisten’d;
How silent that tongue which the echoes oft tired,
 How dull is that ear which to flatt’ry so listen’d!


If sorrow and anguish their exit await,
 From friendship and dearest affection remov’d;
How doubly severer, Maria, thy fate,
 Thou diedst unwept, as thou...Read more of this...

On Margaret Ratcliffe

by Ben Jonson
XL. ? ON MARGARET RATCLIFFE.  M arble, weep, for thou dost cover A dead beauty underneath thee, R ich as nature could bequeath thee : G rant then, no rude hand remove her. A ll the gazers on the skies R ead not in fair heaven's story, E xpresser truth, or truer glory, T han they might in her bright eyes. R are...Read more of this...

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