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Famous Sampled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...oisoned drink. 
He gathered all the springs to birth 
From the many-venomed earth; 
First a little, thence to more, 
He sampled all her killing store; 
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, 
Sate the king when healths went round. 
They put arsenic in his meat 
And stared aghast to watch him eat; 
They poured strychnine in his cup 
And shook to see him drink it up: 
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt: 
Them it was their poison hurt. 
--I tell the tale that I heard tol...Read more of this...
by Housman, A E



...iquids 
But oh! they are not the same. 

We have sought, but we sought it vainly, 
That one lost drink divine; 
We have sampled his various bottles, 
But somehow they don't combine: 
Yet I know when I cross the River 
And stand on the Golden Shore 
I shall meet with an angel chemist 
To brew me that drink once more....Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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