Famous Supplicate Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Supplicate poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous supplicate poems. These examples illustrate what a famous supplicate poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Petrarch, Francesco
.../SPAN>'Gainst whom of small or no avail has beenGenius, or force, to strive or supplicate.These two transform'd me to my present state,Making of breathing man a laurel green,Which loses not its leaves though wintry blasts be keen. What my amaze, when first I fully learn'dThe wondrous ...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...To demand, in Your low favor
Lest the Jealous Grass
Greener lean -- Or fonder cluster
Round some other face --
Mine to supplicate Madonna --
If Madonna be
Could behold so far a Creature --
Christ -- omitted -- Me --
Just to follow Your dear future --
Ne'er so far behind --
For My Heaven --
Had I not been
Most enough -- denied?...Read more of this...
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Southey, Robert
...orth, nor wears one cloud to mourn
His votary's sorrows! God of Day shine on--
By Man despis'd, forsaken by the Gods,
I supplicate no more.
How many a day,
O pleasant Lesbos! in thy secret streams
Delighted have I plung'd, from the hot sun
Screen'd by the o'er-arching groves delightful shade,
And pillowed on the waters: now the waves
Shall chill me to repose.
Tremendous height!
Scarce to the brink will these rebellious limbs
Support me. Hark! how the rude deep b...Read more of this...
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Seeger, Alan
...There have been times when I could storm and plead,
But you shall never hear me supplicate.
These long months that have magnified my need
Have made my asking less importunate,
For now small favors seem to me so great
That not the courteous lovers of old time
Were more content to rule themselves and wait,
Easing desire with discourse and sweet rhyme.
Nay, be capricious, willful; have no fear
To wound me with unkindness do...Read more of this...
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Seeger, Alan
...moving among men
Is like the wind's way on the woods below,
Filling all nature where its pathway lies
With arms that supplicate and trembling sighs....Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...bitter Wind --
The Childish Hands that teased for Pence
Lifted adoring -- them --
To Him whom never Ragged -- Coat
Did supplicate in vain --...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...We thirst at first -- 'tis Nature's Act --
And later -- when we die --
A little Water supplicate --
Of fingers going by --
It intimates the finer want --
Whose adequate supply
Is that Great Water in the West --
Termed Immortality --...Read more of this...
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