Famous Say What You Will Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Say What You Will poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous say what you will poems. These examples illustrate what a famous say what you will poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Swift, Jonathan
...r's letters!"
"He should have left them for his betters;
We had a hundred abler men,
Nor need depend upon his pen.
Say what you will about his reading,
You never can defend his breeding;
Who in his satires running riot,
Could never leave the world in quiet;
Attacking, when he took the whim,
Court, city, camp -all one to him!
But why should he, except he slobber't,
Offend our patriot, great Sir Robert,
Whose counsels aid the sov'reign power
To save the nation every hour?
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St Vincent Millay, Edna
...Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer mo...Read more of this...
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