Famous Schemed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Aix In Provence

...length
My honour, 'twas with all his strength.

II.

And doubtlessly ere he could draw
All points to one, he must have schemed!
That miserable morning saw
Few half so happy as I seemed,
While being dressed in queen's array
To give our tourney prize away.

III.

I thought they loved me, did me grace
To please themselves; 'twas all their deed;
God makes, or fair or foul, our face;
If showing mine so caused to bleed
My cousins' hearts, they should have dropped
A word, and strai...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Doom and She

...would undo. 

V 

 "Sometimes from lairs of life 
 Methinks I catch a groan, 
 Or multitudinous moan, 
As though I had schemed a world of strife, 
 Working by touch alone." 

VI 

 "World-weaver!" he replies, 
 "I scan all thy domain; 
 But since nor joy nor pain 
Doth my clear substance recognize, 
 I read thy realms in vain. 

VII 

 "World-weaver! what IS Grief? 
 And what are Right, and Wrong, 
 And Feeling, that belong 
To creatures all who owe thee fief? 
 What worse i...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

Geraint And Enid

...to make 
My nature's prideful sparkle in the blood 
Break into furious flame; being repulsed 
By Yniol and yourself, I schemed and wrought 
Until I overturned him; then set up 
(With one main purpose ever at my heart) 
My haughty jousts, and took a paramour; 
Did her mock-honour as the fairest fair, 
And, toppling over all antagonism, 
So waxed in pride, that I believed myself 
Unconquerable, for I was wellnigh mad: 
And, but for my main purpose in these jousts, 
I should ha...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Pan and Luna

...so grope)-- 

So lay this Maid-Moon clasped around and caught 
By rough red Pan, the god of all that tract: 
He it was schemed the snare thus subtly wrought 
With simulated earth-breath,--wool-tufts packed 
Into a billowy wrappage. Sheep far-sought 
For spotless shearings yield such: take the fact 
As learned Virgil gives it,--how the breed 
Whitens itself forever: yes, indeed! 

If one forefather ram, though pure as chalk 
From tinge on fleece, should still display a tongue...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Snowbound a Winter Idyl

...a huckleberry hill. 

A careless boy that night he seemed; 
But at his desk he had the look 
And air of one who wisely schemed, 
And hostage from the future took 
In trainëd thought and lore of book. 
Large-brained, clear-eyed, of such as he 
Shall Freedom's young apostles be, 
Who, following in War's bloody trail, 
Shall every lingering wrong assail; 
All chains from limb and spirit strike, 
Uplift the black and white alike; 
Scatter before their swift advance 
The darkness...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf


The Auction Sale

...cushions that you worked by hand
When you had time, before the baby came.
Oh, how you wove around him cozy spells,
And schemed so hard to keep him home of nights!
Aye, every touch and turn some story tells
Of sweet conspiracies and dead delights.

And here upon the scratched piano stool,
Tied in a bundle, are the songs you sung;
That cozy that you worked in colored wool,
The Spanish lace you made when you were young,
And lots of modern novels, cheap reprints,
And little dain...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Great Adventure of Max Breuck

...n Hilverdink, whose wines are much esteemed.
Within his cellar men can have to drink
The rarest cordials old monks ever schemed
To coax from pulpy grapes, and with nice art
Improve and spice their virgin juiciness.
Here froths the amber beer of many a brew,
Crowning each pewter tankard with as smart
A cap as ever in his wantonness
Winter set glittering on top of an old yew.

3
Tall candles stand upon the table, where
Are twisted glasses, ruby-sparked with wine,
Clarets and po...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

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