Famous Sups Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Eviradnus

...ext day's soft brink. 
 Then to the castle tower he wends his way, 
 And finds a supper laid with rich display. 
 He sups and sleeps: then to his slumbering eyes 
 The shades of kings from Bela all arise. 
 None dare the tower to enter on this night, 
 But when the morning dawns, crowds are in sight 
 The dreamer to deliver,—whom half dazed, 
 And with the visions of the night amazed, 
 They to the old church take, where rests the dust 
 Of Borivorus; then the bisho...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


Paradise Lost: Book 05

...bs. 
The sun that light imparts to all, receives 
From all his alimental recompence 
In humid exhalations, and at even 
Sups with the ocean. Though in Heaven the trees 
Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines 
Yield nectar; though from off the boughs each morn 
We brush mellifluous dews, and find the ground 
Covered with pearly grain: Yet God hath here 
Varied his bounty so with new delights, 
As may compare with Heaven; and to taste 
Think not I shall be nice. So down the...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Duck

...e duck. 
It does not cluck. 
A cluck it lacks. 
It quacks. 
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond. 
When it dines or sups, 
It bottoms ups....Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp

...ng in his cups. 
 That they are such as are most thirsty of man's blood— 
 Yet he will see a slave beheaded whilst he sups. 
 But be this as it all may, glory gilds his reign, 
 He has overrun Africa, the old and black; 
 Asia as well—holding them both beneath a rain 
 Of bloody drops from scaffold, pyre, the stake, or rack, 
 To leave his empire's confines, one must run a race 
 Far past the river Baxtile southward; in the north, 
 To the rude, rocky, barren land of...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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