Famous Winning Ways Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Canzone IV

.../SPAN>The soft hand's snowy charm,The finely-rounded arm,The winning ways, by turns, that quiet scorn,Chaste anger, proud humility adorn,The fair young breast that shrinedIntellect pure and high,Are now all hid the rugged Alp behind.My trust were vain to tryAnd see her ere I die,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo

...of, O it is an all youth!
Come then, your ways and airs and looks, locks, maiden gear, gallantry and gaiety and grace,
Winning ways, airs innocent, maiden manners, sweet looks, loose locks, long locks, lovelocks, gaygear, going gallant, girlgrace—
Resign them, sign them, seal them, send them, motion them with breath,
And with sighs soaring, soaring síghs deliver
Them; beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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