Famous Sympathizing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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On the Death of a Young Gentleman

...the mind to peace,
To still the tumult of life's tossing seas,
To ease the anguish of the parents heart,
What shall my sympathizing verse impart?
Where is the balm to heal so deep a wound?
Where shall a sov'reign remedy be found?
Look, gracious Spirit, from thine heav'nly bow'r,

And thy full joys into their bosoms pour;
The raging tempest of their grief control,
And spread the dawn of glory through the soul,
To eye the path the saint departed trod,
And trace him to the boso...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis


Psalm 41

...he poor; or, Pity to the afflicted.

Blest is the man whose bowels move,
And melt with pity to the poor;
Whose soul, by sympathizing love,
Feels what his fellow saints endure.

His heart contrives for their relief
More good than his own hands can do;
He, in the time of gen'ral grief,
Shall find the Lord has bowels too.

His soul shall live secure on earth,
With secret blessings on his head,
When drought, and pestilence, and dearth
Around him multiply their dead.

Or if he lan...Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

The Critick and the Writer of Fables

...ck Faults. 
Display the Times, High-Church or Low provoke; 
We'll praise the Weapon, as we like the Stroke, 
And warmly sympathizing with the Spite 
Apply to Thousands, what of One you write. 

Then, must that single Stream the Town supply, 
The harmless Fable-writer do's reply, 
And all the Rest of Helicon be dry ? 
And when so many choice Productions swarm, 
Must only Satire keep your Fancies warm? 

Whilst even there, you praise with such Reserve, 
As if you'd in the midst...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

The King and the Shepherd

...struments of Peace; 
The Hook, the Scrip, and for unblam'd Delight 
The merry Bagpipe, which, ere fall of Night, 
Cou'd sympathizing Birds to tuneful Notes invite. 
Welcome ye Monuments of former Joys! 
Welcome! to bless again your Master's Eyes, 
And draw from Courts, th' instructed Shepherd cries. 
No more dear Relicks! we no more will part, 
You shall my Hands employ, who now revive my Heart. 
No Emulations, nor corrupted Times 
Shall falsely blacken, or seduce to Crimes 
...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

The Pleasures of Melancholy

...alous rage.
By soft degrees the manly torrent steals
From my swollen eyes; and at a brother's woe
My big heart melts in sympathizing tears.

What are the splendours of the gaudy court,
Its tinsel trappings, and its pageant pomps?
To me far happier seems the banish'd lord,
Amid Siberia's unrejoicing wilds
Who pines all lonesome, in the chambers hoar
Of some high castle shut, whose windows dim
In distant ken discover trackless plains,
Where Winter ever whirls his icy car;
While...Read more of this...
by Warton, Thomas


To The Painter Of An Ill-drawn Picture of Cleone

...in CLEONE's Face has writ, 
A soft Endearment, and a chearful Wit, 
That all-subduing, that enliv'ning Air 
By which, a sympathizing Joy we share, 
For who forbears to smile, when smil'd on by the Fair?...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

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