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Famous Sustainer Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...thing of a case.) 
This man so cured regards the curer, then 
As--God forgive me! who but God himself, 
Creator and sustainer of the world, 
That came and dwelt in flesh on 't awhile! 
--'Sayeth that such an one was born and lived, 
Taught, healed the sick, broke bread at his own house, 
Then died, with Lazarus by, for aught I know, 
And yet was . . . what I said nor choose repeat, 
And must have so avouched himself, in fact, 
In hearing of this very Lazarus 
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by Raine, Kathleen
...has faded
but the world-destroyer,
the liberator, the purifier?

But great is the realm
of the world-creator,
the world-sustainer
from whom we come,
in whom we move
and have our being,
about us, within us
the wonders of wisdom,
the trees and the fountains,
the stars and the mountains,
all the children of joy,
the loved and the known,
the unknowable mystery
to whom we return
through the world-destroyer, —
Holy, holy
at the end of the world
the purging fire
of the purifier, the...Read more of this...

by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...e very hope of death's dear rest;
Which, since the heart within my breast
Of natural life was dispossessed,
Its strange sustainer there had been.

When flowers were dead, and grass was green
Upon my mother's grave--that mother
Whom to outlive, and cheer, and make 
My wan eyes glitter for her sake,
Was my vowed task, the single care
Which once gave life to my despair--
When she was a thing that did not stir,
And the crawling worms were cradling her
To a sleep more deep and...Read more of this...

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