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Famous Secundus Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
...tening people out of their wits, --
Have you ever heard of that, I say?

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, --
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down,
And Braddock's army was done so brown,
Left without a scalp to its crown.
It was on the terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.

Now in building of chaises, I tell you what,
There ...Read More



by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
...tening people out of their wits, --
Have you ever heard of that, I say?

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, --
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down,
And Braddock's army was done so brown,
Left without a scalp to its crown.
It was on the terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.

Now in building of chaises, I tell you what,
There ...Read More

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...ut sin I have begonne,
Myn auctor shal I folwen, if I conne.

Exclipit prohemium Secundi Libri.


Incipit Liber Secundus.

In May, that moder is of monthes glade, 
That fresshe floures, blewe, and whyte, and rede,
Ben quike agayn, that winter dede made,
And ful of bawme is fleting every mede;
Whan Phebus doth his brighte bemes sprede
Right in the whyte Bole, it so bitidde 
As I shal singe, on Mayes day the thridde,

That Pandarus, for al his wyse speche,
Felt eek ...Read More

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...ent of the 12 Books of Statius' "Thebais"]

 Associat profugum Tideo primus Polimitem;
 Tidea legatum docet insidiasque secundus;
 Tercius Hemoniden canit et vates latitantes;
 Quartus habet reges ineuntes prelia septem;
 Mox furie Lenne quinto narratur et anguis;
 Archimori bustum sexto ludique leguntur;
 Dat Graios Thebes et vatem septimus vmbria;
 Octauo cecidit Tideus, spes, vita Pelasgia;
 Ypomedon nono moritur cum Parthonopeo;
 Fulmine percussus, decimo Capaneus superat...Read More

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