Famous Sixteenth Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Sixteenth poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sixteenth poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sixteenth poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Browning, Robert
...h blunt type!
Simply glance at it, you grovel
Hand and foot in Belial's gripe:
If I double down its pages
At the woeful sixteenth print,
When he gathers his greengages,
Ope a sieve and slip it in't?
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Or, there's Satan!---one might venture
Pledge one's soul to him, yet leave
Such a flaw in the indenture
As he'd miss till, past retrieve,
Blasted lay that rose-acacia
We're so proud of! _Hy, Zy, Hine ..._
'St, there's Vespers! _Plena grati
Ave, Virgo!_ Gr-r-r...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
...HIS LOVE REMAINS EVER UNCHANGED. My sixteenth year of sighs its course has run,I stand alone, already on the browWhere Age descends: and yet it seems as nowMy time of trial only were begun.'Tis sweet to love, and good to be undone;Though life be hard, more days may ...Read more of this...
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