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Famous Surceased Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lanier, Sidney
...diver Eve

Brought up from out the brimming East
The oval moon, a perfect pearl.
In that large lustre all our haste surceased,
The sail seemed fain to furl,

The silent steersman landward turned,
And ship and shore set breast to breast.
Under a palm wherethrough a planet burned
We ate, and sank to rest.

But soon from sleep's dear death (it seemed)
I rose and strolled along the sea
Down silver distances that faintly gleamed
On to infinity.

Till suddenly I pau...Read more of this...



by Milton, John
...fold adamant, his ample shield, 
A vast circumference. At his approach 
The great Arch-Angel from his warlike toil 
Surceased, and glad, as hoping here to end 
Intestine war in Heaven, the arch-foe subdued 
Or captive dragged in chains, with hostile frown 
And visage all inflamed first thus began. 
Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt, 
Unnamed in Heaven, now plenteous as thou seest 
These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all, 
Though heaviest by just measure on ...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...hose who were homing 
 Passed on, rushingly, 
 Like the Pentecost Wind; 
 And the whirr of their wayfaring thinned 
And surceased on the sky, and but left in the gloaming 
 Sea-mutterings and me....Read more of this...

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