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Famous Thralled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...u wert basely born. 
I held with these, and loathe to ask thee aught. 
Yet lo! my husband's brother had my son 
Thralled in his castle, and hath starved him dead; 
And standeth seized of that inheritance 
Which thou that slewest the sire hast left the son. 
So though I scarce can ask it thee for hate, 
Grant me some knight to do the battle for me, 
Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son.' 

Then strode a good knight forward, crying to him, 
'A boon, Sir ...Read more of this...



by Donne, John
...ol, for when others...,
He can neither....;
Nor he that still his Mistress pays,
For she is thralled therefore;
Nor he that pays not, for he says
Within She's worth no more.
Is there then no kind of men
Whom I may freely prove?
I will vent that humour then
In mine own self-love....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...flowers gathered.
No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of thralled discontent,
Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls.
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-numbered hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
To this I witness call the fools of Time,
Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...flowers gather'd.
No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of thralled discontent,
Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.
To this I witness call the fools of time,
Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime....Read more of this...

by Spenser, Edmund
...lurke,
in close awayt to catch her vnaware.
Right so to your selfe were caught in cunning snare
of a deare foe, and thralled to his loue:
in whose streight bands ye now captiued are
so firmely, that ye neuer may remoue.
But as your worke is wouen all about,
with woodbynd flowers and fragrant Eglantine:
so sweet your prison you in time shall proue,
with many deare delights bedecked fyne.
And all thensforth eternall peace shall see.
betweene the Spyder and the g...Read more of this...



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