Famous Sympathise Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Comus

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Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits
To such a flame of sacred vehemence
That dumb things would be moved to sympathise,
And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake,
Till all thy magic structures, reared so high,
Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head.
 COMUS. She fables not. I feel that I do fear
Her words set off by some superior power;
And, though not mortal, yet a cold shuddering dew
Dips me all o'er, as when the wrath of Jove
Speaks thunder and...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Gertrude of Wyoming

...
Familiar in thy bosom scenes of life?
And dwells in day-light truth's salubrious skies
No form with which the soul may sympathise?--
Young, innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild
The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise,
An inmate in the home of Albert smiled,
Or blest his noonday walk--she was his only child.

The rose of England bloom'd on Gertrude's cheek--
What though these shades had seen her birth, her sire
A Briton's independence taught to seek
Far western worlds; a...Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas

Pity

...pain
Came to our ears from up and down
 The dimly-lighted lane.


Olive, your eyes were turned to me,
Seeking a soul to sympathise:
I wondered what that glow might be,
 Olive, within your eyes.


Into your trembling words there passed
The sorrow that was sighed through you:
Pity, a breath from out the vast,
 From unknown hollows blew....Read more of this...
by Russell, George William

The Irish Convicts Return

...g bound,
And all my great hardships endured,
And how I was lash'd like a hound. 

And when my story is ended,
Nora will sympathise with her tears,
Which will help to drown my sorrow,
And help me through coming years....Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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