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Famous Thos Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...old Albion’s right,
 May they never eat of her bread!


 Note 1. Charles James Fox. [back]
Note 2. Hon. Thos. Erskine, afterwards Lord Erskine. [back]...Read more of this...



by Yeats, William Butler
...careless Muses heard:
Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird.

 VII

Both nuns and mothers worship images,
But thos the candles light are not as those
That animate a mother's reveries,
But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
And yet they too break hearts - O presences
That passion, piety or affection knows,
And that all heavenly glory symbolise -
O self-born mockers of man's enterprise;

 VIII

Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasu...Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...berte Neatherde hys sore boesom stroke, 
Then fellen on the grounde and thus yspoke. 

Roberte. 
Ah, Raufe! gif thos the howres do comme alonge, 
Gif thos wee flie in chase of farther woe, 
Oure fote wylle fayle, albeytte wee bee stronge, 
Ne wylle oure pace swefte as oure danger goe. 
To oure grete wronges we have enheped moe, 
The Baronnes warre! oh! woe and well-a-daie! 
I haveth lyff, bott have escaped soe 
That lyff ytsel mie senses doe affraie. 
Oh Raufe...Read more of this...

by Bridges, Robert Seymour
...How fares it, friend, since I by Fate annoy'd 
Left the old home in need of livelier play 
For body and mind? How fare, this many a day, 
The stubborn thews and ageless heart of Floyd? 
If not too well with country sport employ'd, 
Visit my flock, the breezy hill that they 
Choose for their fold; and see, for thence you may, 
From rising walls all roofless...Read more of this...

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