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Best Abelard Poems

Below are the all-time best Abelard poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of abelard poems written by PoetrySoup members

Heloise On Abelard

These barren walls
Keep me chaste
Vows of silence
Diminish nothing of wanton passions of the past
Days in silence, looking upwards to God
Thoughts linger, to where true love...

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Categories: abelard, beauty, history, love, me,
Form: Light Verse

In the Aftermath of Love and Tragedy: Heloise and Abelard

"Then there is no more left but this, that
in our doom the sorrow yet to come shall be no less 
than the love we two...

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Categories: abelard, love, sad, love, moon,
Form: Triolet

A Legendary Love

A legendary tale of love I know
about two very brilliant people who
were soul mates living centuries ago.
They shared much hardship but their love stayed true.
Truth...

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Categories: abelard, love,
Form: Sonnet

The Last Waltz

La dernière valse

From the skies
Clouds fall upon my dreams
I am up high, away from it all
I am far, but my tears still fall
I stand up...

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Categories: abelard, grave, heart, longing, love,
Form: Light Verse

She Lived Without

As though she were a moon in sky of nights unstarred;
as though a silent, untouched plain was Heloise
when parted from the one who'd been her...

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Categories: abelard, lost love, passion
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

The Poets Duel

The Poets Duel


I consider myself the poet
Of historic love affairs
Not the Romeo and Juliette’s we all know
The ones mirrored in lesser history of lore
Like Heloise...

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Categories: abelard, christian, deep, fairy, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Challenge... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Tribute.

Ice covered ponds and snow covered beaches
Lost memories of Clemintine,
Rush back to me at once
As I listen to this tape...
Rewind, and listen again
It seems that...

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Categories: abelard, art, lost love, people,
Form: I do not know?

Fulbert's Revenge

You have been influential company
since you came from your town in Brittany.
You possess prowess in philosophy,
and are next to none in theology.
Your presence is a...

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Categories: abelard, history,
Form: Rhyme

Shakespeare's Name Blame Game

A Capulet named Juliette
Exclaimed to her ardent beau,
"You're not to blame Montagu's your name.
By its nature a rose's aroma is sweet,
Though in nomenclature it be...

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Categories: abelard, humor,
Form: Rhyme

If Lovers We

IF LOVERS WE
(To Julia)

``		If lovers we, you and I, who would we be?
		W0uld we be William Powell and Myrna Loy,
sophisticates, trading alcoholic quips across the...

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Categories: abelard, husband, inspirational love, love,
Form: Free verse

Heloise - First Draft

Like moon on nights of skies unstarred
she lived without her Abelard.
A parched, still plain was Heloise -
like moon on nights of skies unstarred.
In death she...

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Categories: abelard, love hurts,
Form: Triolet

Her Fair-Skinned Form Is More Than I Deserve

Her fair-skinned form is more than I deserve;
     because her skin is light, and mine is dark,
    ...

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Categories: abelard, color, discrimination, love, prejudice,
Form: Italian Sonnet