Famous Xcv Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Xcv poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous xcv poems. These examples illustrate what a famous xcv poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...chednesse thy life doth lie,
Yet growest more wretched then by nature beares
By being plac'd in such a wretch as I.
XCV
Yet sighes, deare sighs, indeede true friends you are,
That do not leaue your best friend at the wurst,
But, as you with my breast I oft haue nurst,
So, gratefull now, you waite vpon my care.
Faint coward Ioy no longer tarry dare,
Seeing Hope yeeld when this wo strake him furst;
Delight exclaims he is for my fault curst,
Though oft himselfe my...Read more of this...
by
Sidney, Sir Philip
...How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!
That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
O, what a man...Read more of this...
by
Shakespeare, William
...[Pg 108] SONNET XCV. Rimansi addietro il sestodecim' anno. THOUGH HE IS UNHAPPY, HIS LOVE REMAINS EVER UNCHANGED. My sixteenth year of sighs its course has run,I stand alone, already on the browWhere Age descends: and yet it se...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
...ve,
Was by no means so ugly as his case;
But that, indeed, was hopeless as can be,
Quite a poetic felony, 'de se.'
XCV
Then Michael blew his trump, and still'd the noise
With one still greater, as is yet the mode
On earth besides; except some grumbling voice,
Which now and then will make a slight inroad
Upon decorous silence, few will twice
Lift up their lungs when fairly overcrow'd;
And now the bard could plead his own bad cause,
With all the attitudes of self-...Read more of this...
by
Byron, George (Lord)
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