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Famous Unctuous Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...n'd in a piece of cloth; 
With wither'd cherries, mandrake's ears, 
Mole's eyes; to these, the slain stag's tears, 
The unctuous dewlaps of a snail, 
The broke-heart of a nightingale 
O'er-come in music; with a wine, 
Ne'er ravish'd from the flattering vine, 
But gently press'd from the soft side 
Of the most sweet and dainty bride,
Brought in a dainty daisy, which 
He fully quaffs up to bewitch 
His blood to height; this done, commended 
Grace by his priest, the feast is end...Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert



...e seem straight, 
To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy 
Brightens his crest; as when a wandering fire, 
Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night 
Condenses, and the cold environs round, 
Kindled through agitation to a flame, 
Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends, 
Hovering and blazing with delusive light, 
Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way 
To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool; 
There swallowed up and lost, from succour far. 
So glist...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...laces o'er a deep:
And oft, when sitting all alone, his face
Would darken, as he cursed his credulousness,
And that one unctuous mount which lured him, rogue,
To buy strange shares in some Peruvian mine.
Now seaward-bound for health they gain'd a coast,
All sand and cliff and deep-inrunning cave,
At close of day; slept, woke, and went the next,
The Sabbath, pious variers from the church,
To chapel; where a heated pulpiteer,
Not preaching simple Christ to simple men,
Announced...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...the plush slugged waist
  sucking still and still flushing
  with suggestive slurp
  plop slap
  sluggishly upwards
  unctuous lugubrious
  soaking and enjoying
  with spongy gestures
  the swallowed wallowing
  body - the succulence
  of soft shoulder
  squirming
  elbow
  wrist
  then
  all.......

  but no
  his desperate palm
  struggling to forsake
  the clutches of the swamp
  finds one stark branch overhanging
  to fix glad fingers to and out of the maw
  of the murd...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg
...general hubbub
of inkies and jennets and Kickapoos with their lemniscs
or peekaboo-quiffs of Russian sable

and tallow-unctuous vernix, into the realm of the widgeon—
the 'whew' or 'yellow-poll', not the 'zuizin'—

Dorothy Aoife Korelitz Muldoon: I watch through floods of tears
as they give her a quick rub-a-dub
and whisk
her off to the nursery, then check their staple-guns for staples...Read more of this...
by Muldoon, Paul



...er," (the sonnet goes rhyming,) "the skirts of Saint Paul has 
reached,
Having preached us those six Lent-lectures more unctuous than ever he preached."
Noon strikes,—here sweeps the procession! our Lady borne smiling and smart
With a pink gauze gown all spangles, and seven swords stuck in her heart!
Bang, whang, whang goes the drum, tootle-te-tootle the fife;
No keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life.

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But bless you, it's dear—it's dear! fowls, w...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

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