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Famous Seizures Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Trumbull, John
...reign Lord, The People;
By plunder rise to power and glory,
And brand all property, as Tory;
Expose all wares to lawful seizures
By mobbers or monopolizers;
Break heads and windows and the peace,
For your own interest and increase;
Dispute and pray and fight and groan
For public good, and mean your own;
Prevent the law by fierce attacks
From quitting scores upon your backs;
Lay your old dread, the gallows, low,
And seize the stocks, your ancient foe,
And turn them to convenie...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...r> 
And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, 
An old and strange affection of the house. 
Myself too had weird seizures, Heaven knows what: 
On a sudden in the midst of men and day, 
And while I walked and talked as heretofore, 
I seemed to move among a world of ghosts, 
And feel myself the shadow of a dream. 
Our great court-Galen poised his gilt-head cane, 
And pawed his beard, and muttered 'catalepsy'. 
My mother pitying made a thousand prayers; 
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