Famous Sensibility Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Elegy to the Memory of Werter

by Mary Darby Robinson
 "With female Fairies will thy tomb be haunted
"And worms will not come to thee." SHAKSPERE. 


WHEN from Day's closing eye the lucid tears
Fall lightly on the bending lily's head;
When o'er the blushing sky night's curtains spread, 
And the tall mountain's summit scarce appears;
When languid Evening, sinking to repose,
Her filmy mantle o'er the landscape throws; 
Of THEE I'll sing; and...Read more of this...

353. Poem on Sensibility

by Robert Burns
 SENSIBILITY, how charming,
 Dearest Nancy, thou canst tell;
But distress, with horrors arming,
 Thou alas! hast known too well!


Fairest flower, behold the lily
 Blooming in the sunny ray:
Let the blast sweep o’er the valley,
 See it prostrate in the clay.


Hear the wood lark charm the forest,
 Telling o’er his little joys;
But alas! a prey the surest
 To each pirate of...Read more of this...

Sensibility

by Robert William Service
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Once, when a boy, I killed a cat.
I guess it's just because of that
A cat evokes my tenderness,
And takes so kindly my caress.
For with a rich, resonant purr
It sleeks an arch or ardent fur
So vibrantly against my shin;
And as I tickle tilted chin
And rub the roots of velvet ears
Its tail in undulation rears.
Then tremoring with all its might,
In blissful...Read more of this...

To Romance

by George (Lord) Byron
 Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious Queen of childish joys,
Who lead'st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys;
At length, in spells no longer bound,
I break the fetters of my youth;
No more I tread thy mystic round,
But leave thy realms for those of Truth.

And yet 'tis hard to quit the dreams
Which haunt the unsuspicious soul,
Where every nymph a...Read more of this...

143. Fragment on Sensibility

by Robert Burns
 RUSTICITY’S ungainly form
 May cloud the highest mind;
But when the heart is nobly warm,
 The good excuse will find.


Propriety’s cold, cautious rules
 Warm fervour may o’erlook:
But spare poor sensibility
 Th’ ungentle, harsh rebuke....Read more of this...

To Make A Dadist Poem

by Tristan Tzara
 Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The...Read more of this...

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