Famous Tarsus Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Paradise Lost: Book 01

...les name of monstrous size, 
Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, 
Briareos or Typhon, whom the den 
By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast 
Leviathan, which God of all his works 
Created hugest that swim th' ocean-stream. 
Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, 
The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, 
Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 
With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, 
Moors by his side under the lee, while night 
Invests the sea, and wished...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Samson Agonistes

...of Sea or Land? 
Femal of sex it seems,
That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay,
Comes this way sailing
Like a stately Ship
Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles
Of Javan or Gadier
With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,
Sails fill'd, and streamers waving,
Courted by all the winds that hold them play,
An Amber sent of odorous perfume 
Her harbinger, a damsel train behind;
Some rich Philistian Matron she may seem,
And now at nearer view, no other certain
Than Dalila thy wife.

Sam: My Wif...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Three Taverns

...have seen too much of time and men 
To fear the ravening or the wrath of either. 

Yes, it is Paul you see—the Saul of Tarsus
That was a fiery Jew, and had men slain 
For saying Something was beyond the Law, 
And in ourselves. I fed my suffering soul 
Upon the Law till I went famishing, 
Not knowing that I starved. How should I know,
More then than any, that the food I had— 
What else it may have been—was not for me? 
My fathers and their fathers and their fathers 
Had found...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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