Famous Sympathising Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Felixstowe or The Last of Her Order

...t my down sitting and mine uprising"
Here where the white light burns with steady glow
Safe from the vain world's silly sympathising,
Safe with the love I was born to know,
Safe from the surging of the lonely sea
My heart finds rest, my heart finds rest in Thee....Read more of this...
by Betjeman, John


May Magnificat

...life within; 
And bird and blossom swell 
In sod or sheath or shell.

All things rising, all things sizing 
Mary sees, sympathising 
With that world of good, 
Nature's motherhood.

Their magnifying of each its kind 
With delight calls to mind 
How she did in her stored 
Magnify the Lord.

Well but there was more than this: 
Spring's universal bliss 
Much, had much to say 
To offering Mary May.

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple 
Bloom lights the orchard-apple 
And thicket a...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Sonnet X

...to heaven the spirit soars,Whilst Philomel her tale of woe repeatsAmid the sympathising shades of night,Thus through man's breast love's current sweetly pours:Yet still thine absence half the joy defeats,—Alas! my friend, why dim such radiant light? Wollaston....Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The May Magnificat

...life within;
 And bird and blossom swell
 In sod or sheath or shell. 

All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathising
 With that world of good,
 Nature's motherhood. 

Their magnifying of each its kind
With delight calls to mind
 How she did in her stored
 Magnify the Lord. 

Well but there was more than this:
Spring's universal bliss
 Much, had much to say
 To offering Mary May. 

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple
Bloom lights the orchard-apple
 And thicket a...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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