Famous Solicited Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire)

..., 
 Hast thou found place at the great knees and feet 
Of some pale Titan-woman like a lover, 
 Such as thy vision here solicited, 
 Under the shadow of her fair vast head, 
The deep division of prodigious breasts, 
 The solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep, 
 The weight of awful tresses that still keep 
The savour and shade of old-world pine-forests 
 Where the wet hill-winds weep? 

Hast thou found any likeness for thy vision? 
 O gardener of strange flowers, what bud, what ...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles


Necrological

...ead 
As under a riddle, and in deep surmise 
So still that he likened himself unto those dead 
Whom the kites of Heaven solicited with sweet cries....Read more of this...
by Ransom, John Crowe

Paradise Lost: Book 09

...r appetite, raised by the smell 
So savoury of that fruit, which with desire, 
Inclinable now grown to touch or taste, 
Solicited her longing eye; yet first 
Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. 
Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of fruits, 
Though kept from man, and worthy to be admired; 
Whose taste, too long forborn, at first assay 
Gave elocution to the mute, and taught 
The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise: 
Thy praise he also, who forbids thy u...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

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