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Famous Sensate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Mary Darby
...gloom­till MERRY'S lucid days: 
Then emulation kindles fancy's fire, 
The glorious throng poetic flights inspire; 
Each sensate bosom feels the god-like flame, 
The cherish'd harbinger of future fame. 
Yet timid genius, oft in conscious ease, 
Steals from the world, content the few to please: 
Obscur'd in shades, the modest Muse retires, 
While sparkling vapours emulate her fires. 
The proud enthusiast shuns promiscuous praise, 
The Idiot's smile condemns the Poet's l...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Mary Darby
...me hear thy heav'n-taught strain, 
As thro' my quiv'ring pulses steal 
The mingling throbs of joy and pain, 
Which only sensate minds can feel; 
Ah ! let me taste the bliss supreme, 
Which thy warm touch unerring flings 
O'er the rapt sense's finest strings, 
When GENIUS, darting frown the sky, 
Glances across my wond'ring eye, 
Her animating beam. 

SWEET ELOQUENCE! thy mild controul, 
Awakes to REASON's dawn, the IDIOT soul; 
When mists absorb the MENTAL sight, 
'Tis th...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...ins, cap'd with flaky snow; 
Luxuriant groves, enamell'd fields,
All, all, prolific Nature yields,
Alike shall end; the sensate HEART,
With all its passions, all its fire,
Touch'd by FATE'S unerring dart,
Shall feel its vital strength expire;
Those eyes, that beam with FRIENDSHIP'S ray,
And glance ineffable delight,
Shall shrink from LIFE'S translucid day, 
And close their fainting orbs, in DEATH'S impervious night. 

Then what remains for mortal pow'r;
But TIME'S dull jo...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...xuriant plays;
So, on the modest lily's leaves of snow
The proud Sun revels in resplendent rays!
Warm as his beams this sensate heart shall glow, 
Till life's last hour, with Phaon's self decays!...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...ugh ev'ry vein
A ruby tide of purest lustre flows,
Warm'd by thy love, or chill'd by thy disdain;
And yet no bliss this sensate Being knows;
Ah! why is rapture so allied to pain?...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Mary Darby
...e pulses bind; 
No jealous agonies impart 
Their madd'ning poisons to my heart 
But sweetly lull'd to placid rest, 
The sensate tenant of my breast 
Shall one unshaken course pursue, 
Such as thy vot'ries never knew.­ 

SWEET SOLITUDE ! pure Nature's child, 
Fair pensive daughter of the wild; 
Nymph of the Forest; thee I press 
My weary sick'ning soul to bless; 
To give my heart the dear repose, 
That smiles unmov'd at transient woes; 
That shelter'd from Life's trivial c...Read more of this...

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