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Famous Stil Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...n’ cheat you yet.


But fare-you-weel, auld Nickie-ben!
O wad ye tak a thought an’ men’!
Ye aiblins might-I dinna ken—
 Stil hae a stake
I’m wae to think up’ yon den,
 Ev’n for your sake!


 Note 1. The verse originally ran:
“Lang syne, in Eden’s happy scene
When strappin Adam’s days were green,
And Eve was like my bonie Jean,
 My dearest part,
A dancin, sweet, young handsome quean,
 O’ guileless heart.”
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Note 2. Vide Milton, Book vi.—R. B. [back]...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...What cupped sighs, what salt in the throat....

And the onlooker, trembling,
Drawn like a long material

Through a still virulence,
And a weed, hairy as privates.


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On the balconies of the hotel, things are glittering.
Things, things----

Tubular steel wheelchairs, aluminum crutches.
Such salt-sweetness. Why should I walk

Beyond the breakwater, spotty with barnacles?
I am not a nurse, white and attendant,

I am not a smile. 
These children are after...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia
...y and Night; 
Which doe the seasons of the yeare allot, 100 
And al, that ever in this world is fayre, 
Doe make and still repayre: 
And ye three handmayds of the Cyprian Queene, 
The which doe still adorne her beauties pride, 
Helpe to addorne my beautifullest bride: 105 
And, as ye her array, still throw betweene 
Some graces to be seene; 
And, as ye use to Venus, to her sing, 
The whiles the woods shal answer, and your eccho ring. 

Now is my love all ready for...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund
...BVt let stil Silence trew night watches keepe,
That sacred peace may in assurance rayne,
And tymely sleep, when it is tyme to sleepe,
May poure his limbs forth on your pleasant playne,
The whiles an hundred little winged loues,
Like diuers fethered doues,
Shall fly and flutter round about your bed,
And in the secret darke, that none reproues,
Their prety stealthes s...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund

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