Famous Sourly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Balin and Balan

...te swan-mother, sitting, when she hears 
A strange knee rustle through her secret reeds, 
Made Garlon, hissing; then he sourly smiled. 
'Fairest I grant her: I have seen; but best, 
Best, purest? THOU from Arthur's hall, and yet 
So simple! hast thou eyes, or if, are these 
So far besotted that they fail to see 
This fair wife-worship cloaks a secret shame? 
Truly, ye men of Arthur be but babes.' 

A goblet on the board by Balin, bossed 
With holy Joseph's legend, on his righ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Julot The Apache

...and then one April morn
The worthy Julot came at last to say the babe was born.
"I'd like to chuck it in the Seine," he sourly snarled, "and yet
I guess I'll have to let it live, because of Gigolette."
I only laughed, for sure I saw his spite was all a bluff,
And he was prouder than a prince behind his manner gruff.
Yet every day he'd blast the brat with curses deep and grim,
And swear to me that Gigolette no longer thought of him.
And then one night he dropped the mask; his ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Red-Tiled Roof

...ere skies ineffably are blue,
And seas a golden glaze.

But set me in the surly North
Beneath a roof of slate,
And as I sourly sally forth
My heart will hum with hate;
And I will brood beneath a pine
Where Nature seldom smiles,
Heart-longing for a starry vine
And roof of ruddy tiles.

For oh the South's a bonny clime
And sunshine is its life;
So there I'll finish up my time
A stranger unto strife.
And smoke my pipe and sit aloof
From care by miles and miles,
Sagaciously benea...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done

...lawful plea commence.
Such civil war is in my love and hate
That I an accessary needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

...rt, and therefore to be won;
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?
Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:
Hers, by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine, by thy beauty being false to me....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William


Sonnet XLI

...art and therefore to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed?
Ay me! but yet thou mightest my seat forbear,
And chide try beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth,
Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine, by thy beauty being false to me....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Sonnet XXXV

...lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate
That I an accessary needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me....Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

The Seance

...breast was soft as feather bed.)
"I love his verses; oh dear, dear,
I didn't know that he was dead."
"No more did I," I sourly said.

The little lady grabbed me hard;
(She looked to me a "yesful" dear.)
Said she: "Don't you adore the Bard?"
Said I: "Before he fades, I fear
I'd like to kick his astral rear."

So then I bravely broke away
From spooks and ectoplasic gauze.
Yet in the brazen light of day
I had to pinch myself because
Really! I wondered if I was....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Threnody

...The world dishonored thou hast left. 
O truth's and nature's costly lid 
O trusted broken prophecy! 
O richest fortunes sourly crossed! 
Born for the future, to the future lost! 

The deep Heart answered, "Weepest thou? 
Worthier cause for passion wild 
If I had not taken the child. 
And deemest thou as those who pore, 
With aged eyes, short way before,-- 
Think'st Beauty vanished from the coast 
Of matter, and thy darling lost? 
Taught he not thee--the man of eld, 
Whose eye...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Threnody

...ft;
The world dishonored thou hast left;
O truths and natures costly lie;
O trusted, broken prophecy!
O richest fortune sourly crossed;
Born for the future, to the future lost!

The deep Heart answered, Weepest thou?
Worthier cause for passion wild,
If I had not taken the child.
And deemest thou as those who pore
With aged eyes short way before?
Think'st Beauty vanished from the coast
Of matter, and thy darling lost?
Taught he not thee, — the man of eld,
Whose eyes within his...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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