Famous Weet Poems by Famous Poets

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

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102. To a Mountain Daisy

...sh amang the stoure
 Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow’r,
 Thou bonie gem.


Alas! it’s no thy neibor sweet,
The bonie lark, companion meet,
Bending thee ’mang the dewy weet,
 Wi’ spreckl’d breast!
When upward-springing, blythe, to greet
 The purpling east.


Cauld blew the bitter-biting north
Upon thy early, humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
 Amid the storm,
Scarce rear’d above the parent-earth
 Thy tender form.


The flaunting flow’rs our gard...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


142. Epistle to Major Logan

...drinkers,
When they fa’ foul o’ earthly jinkers!
The witching, curs’d, delicious blinkers
 Hae put me hyte,
And gart me weet my waukrife winkers,
 Wi’ girnin’spite.


By by yon moon!—and that’s high swearin—
An’ every star within my hearin!
An’ by her een wha was a dear ane!
 I’ll ne’er forget;
I hope to gie the jads a clearin
 In fair play yet.


My loss I mourn, but not repent it;
I’ll seek my pursie whare I tint it;
Ance to the Indies I were wonted,
 Some cantraip hour
By ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

224. Epistle to Hugh Parker

...w can I write what ye can read?—
Tarbolton, twenty-fourth o’ June,
Ye’ll find me in a better tune;
But till we meet and weet our whistle,
Tak this excuse for nae epistle.ROBERT BURNS....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

265. Song—Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad

...a’;
An’ aye my heart cam to my mou’,
 When ne’er a body heard or saw.


My Jockie toils upon the plain,
 Thro’ wind and weet, thro’ frost and snaw:
And o’er the lea I leuk fu’ fain,
 When Jockie’s owsen hameward ca’.


An’ aye the night comes round again,
 When in his arms he taks me a’;
An’ aye he vows he’ll be my ain,
 As lang’s he has a breath to draw....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

492. Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy

...lad lass } for me,
 And that’s my ain dear { Willy. Philly. }


He. As songsters of the early year,
Are ilka day mair sweet to hear,
So ilka day to me mair dear
 And charming is my Philly.
She. As on the brier the budding rose,
Still richer breathes and fairer blows,
So in my tender bosom grows
 The love I bear my Willy.
Both. For a’ the joys, &c.


He. The milder sun and bluer sky
That crown my harvest cares wi’ joy,
Were ne’er sae welcome to my eye
 As is a sight o’ Philly...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


496. Song—My Nanie's awa

...,
But to me it’s delightless—my Nanie’s awa.


The snawdrap and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violetes bathe in the weet o’ the morn;
They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw,
They mind me o’ Nanie—and Nanie’s awa.


Thou lav’rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn,
The shepherd to warn o’ the grey-breaking dawn,
And thou mellow mavis that hails the night-fa’,
Give over for pity—my Nanie’s awa.


Come Autumn, sae pensive, in yellow and grey,
And soothe me wi’ tid...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

515. Song—O let me in this ae night

...night,
This ae, ae, ae night;
O let me in this ae night,
I’ll no come back again, jo!


O hear’st thou not the wind an’ weet?
Nae star blinks thro’ the driving sleet;
Tak pity on my weary feet,
 And shield me frae the rain, jo.
 O let me in, &c.


The bitter blast that round me blaws,
Unheeded howls, unheeded fa’s;
The cauldness o’ thy heart’s the cause
 Of a’ my care and pine, jo.
 O let me in, &c.


HER ANSWERO tell na me o’ wind an’ rain,
Upbraid na me wi’ cauld disdain,
G...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata

...’ fear
 May whistle owre the lave o’t.


Chorus I am a fiddler to my trade,
 An’ a’ the tunes that e’er I played,
 The sweetest still to wife or maid,
 Was whistle owre the lave o’t.


At kirns an’ weddins we’se be there,
An’ O sae nicely’s we will fare!
We’ll bowse about till Daddie Care
 Sing whistle owre the lave o’t.
 I am, &c.


Sae merrily’s the banes we’ll pyke,
An’ sun oursel’s about the dyke;
An’ at our leisure, when ye like,
 We’ll whistle owre the lave o’t.
 I am, ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

Gertrude of Wyoming

...gentle people did befall;
Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all
That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore.
Sweet land! may I thy lost delights recall,
And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore,
Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore!

Delightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies,
The happy shepherd swains had nought to do
But feed their flocks on green declivities,
Or skim perchance thy lake with light canoe,
From morn till evening's sweeter pastimes grew,
...Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas

The Defence of Guenevere

...said: `Rise you, sir, who are so fleet
At catching ladies, half-arm'd will I fight,
My left side all uncover'd!' then I weet, 

"Up sprang Sir Mellyagraunce with great delight
Upon his knave's face; not until just then
Did I quite hate him, as I saw my knight 

"Along the lists look to my stake and pen
With such a joyous smile, it made me sigh
From agony beneath my waist-chain, when 

"The fight began, and to me they drew nigh;
Ever Sir Launcelot kept him on the right,
And tr...Read more of this...
by Morris, William

The Friars Tale

...do no force of* your divinity. *set no value upon*
But one thing warn I thee, I will not jape,* jest
Thou wilt *algates weet* how we be shape: *assuredly know*
Thou shalt hereafterward, my brother dear,
Come, where thee needeth not of me to lear.* *learn
For thou shalt by thine own experience
*Conne in a chair to rede of this sentence,* *learn to understand
Better than Virgil, while he was alive, what I have said*
Or Dante also.  Now let us ride blive,* *briskly
For I wil...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The General Prologue

...WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet
The drought of March hath pierced to the root,
And bathed every vein in such licour,
Of which virtue engender'd is the flower;
When Zephyrus eke with his swoote breath
Inspired hath in every holt* and heath *grove, forest
The tender croppes* and the younge sun *twigs, boughs
Hath in the Ram  his halfe course y-run,
And smalle fowles make melody,
That...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Knights Tale

...lnest to darraine her by bataille*, *will reclaim her
Have here my troth, to-morrow I will not fail, by combat*
Without weeting* of any other wight, *knowledge
That here I will be founden as a knight,
And bringe harness* right enough for thee; *armour and arms
And choose the best, and leave the worst for me.
And meat and drinke this night will I bring
Enough for thee, and clothes for thy bedding.
And if so be that thou my lady win,
And slay me in this wood that I am in,
Thou ...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

To A Mountain Daisy

...crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow'r,
Thou bonie gem.

Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet,
The bonie lark, companion meet,
Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet,
Wi' spreckled breast!
When upward-springing, blithe, to greet
The purpling east.

Cauld blew the bitter-biting north
Upon thy early, humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
Amid the storm,
Scarce reared above the parent-earth
Thy tender form.

The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yi...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

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