Famous Suspecting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Eden is that old-fashioned House

...Eden is that old-fashioned House
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away.

How fair on looking back, the Day
We sauntered from the Door --
Unconscious our returning,
But discover it no more....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily


Elegy I: Jealousy

...en thou seest him hungerly
Swallow his own death, hearts-bane jealousy.
O give him many thanks, he's courteous,
That in suspecting kindly warneth us
Wee must not, as we used, flout openly,
In scoffing riddles, his deformity;
Nor at his board together being sat,
With words, nor touch, scarce looks adulterate;
Nor when he swol'n, and pampered with great fare
Sits down, and snorts, caged in his basket chair,
Must we usurp his own bed any more,
Nor kiss and play in his house, as ...Read more of this...
by Donne, John

Grif of the Bloody Hand

...lked through the wood in search of Grif, without dismay;
And as the daylight faded he quickened his pace and ran,
Never suspecting that in his rear he was followed by a man. 

And as the man to the stranger drew near,
He demanded in a gruff voice, what seek you here;
And when the stranger saw him he trembled with fear,
Because upon his head he wore a steel helmet, and in his hand he bore a spear. 

What seek you here repeated the dark habited man,
Come, sir, speak out, and an...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Sonnet VIII

...edom and in quiet, blestWith everything which life below might cheer,No foe suspecting, harass'd by no fearThat aught our wanderings ever could molest;But snatch'd from that serener life, and thrownTo the low wretched state we here endure,One comfort, short of death, survives alone:Vengeance upon our captor full and sure!Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Ax-Helve

...no more
Than for himself, so placed he couldn't hope
To keep his bargain of the morning with me
In time to keep me from suspecting him
Of really never having meant to keep it.

 Needlessly soon he had his ax-helves out,
A quiverful to choose from, since he wished me
To have the best he had, or had to spare —
Not for me to ask which, when what he took
Had beauties he had to point me out at length
To ensure their not being wasted on me.
He liked to have it slender as a whipstoc...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


The Medal

...erage out with property. 
Their General either shall his trust betray 
And force the crowd to arbitrary sway, 
Or they, suspecting his ambitious aim, 
In hate of kings shall cast anew the frame 
And thrust out Collatine that bore their name. 

Thus inborn broils the factions would engage, 
Or wars of exiled heirs, or foreign rage, 
Till halting vengeance overtook our age, 
And our wild labours, wearied into rest, 
Reclined us on a rightful monarch's breast. 

"Pudet hoec oppr...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

To learn the Transport by the Pain

...To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst -- suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!

To stay the homesick -- homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore --
Haunted by native lands, the while --
And blue -- beloved air!

This is the Sovereign Anguish!
This -- the signal woe!
These are the patient "Laureates"
Whose voices -- trained -- below --

Ascend in ceaseless Carol --
Inaudible, indeed,
To us -- the duller ...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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