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Best Elizabethan Poems

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Elizabethan Love Pastiche
ELIZABETHAN LOVE PASTICHE

I will pluck  Parmenter from your orchard bower
And taste it’s Ambrose and the scented flower
There we shall pass a brief but blessed...

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Categories: elizabethan, allusion, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme



Makeover - Repost
You say I need a makeover,
that I'm not the man I could be
You say I'm too rough around the edges,
a little smoothing out would polish...

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Categories: elizabethan, brother, dedication, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member I Believe - the Anaphora Style
~I Believe~
(Rhymed Anaphora)


I believe in God more than anything that's true
I believe in his divine love and sacrifice that too
I believe that true love can...

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Categories: elizabethan, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
The Wind In the Pines 6
6.   Matsukaze 

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of...

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Categories: elizabethan, myth,
Form: Rhyme
The Wind In the Pines 3
3.   At the Cabin

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version...

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Categories: elizabethan, myth,
Form: Rhyme



The Wind In the Pines 2
("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


2....

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Categories: elizabethan, myth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Charming Patterns
Charming Patterns

An eyelet wheel models medieval embroidery
Aromatic, ornamental garden ballet steps for lovers  
Strolling in stately patterns of noble estate
Savory’s romance looping through lavender...

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Categories: elizabethan, garden, love,
Form: Free verse
The Wind In the Pines 1
("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

1....

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Categories: elizabethan, myth, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
The Wind In the Pines 4
4.   Murasame Starts to Relate the Story

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the...

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Categories: elizabethan, myth,
Form: Couplet
The Wind In the Pines 5
5.  Murasame’s Story Concludes

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of...

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Categories: elizabethan, myth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Esperance
Spontaneously taking me to a land of opportunity. 
A wonderous realm of possibilities awaits me.

Immersing me in showers of splendor and ecstasy.
 I foresee a...

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Categories: elizabethan, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kindness Is - the Anaphora Style
~Kindness Is...~
(Anaphora)


Kindness is to show you care in any way
Kindness is giving something unselfishly
Kindness is to show respect to anyone we meet or know
Kindness is...

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Categories: elizabethan, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Believe - the Anaphora Style
~I Believe~
(Anaphora)


I believe in God more than anything that's true
I believe in his divine love and sacrifice that too
I believe that love can make things...

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Categories: elizabethan, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daydreaming - the Anaphora Style
~Daydreaming~
(Anaphora)


Daydreaming is beautiful
Daydreaming is wonderful
Daydreaming night and day
Daydreaming of only you
Daydreaming of all your love
Daydreaming is a gift  from above
Daydreaming as I go along
Daydreaming...

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Categories: elizabethan, beautiful, faith, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Queens Conjurer
All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright

The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art...

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Categories: elizabethan, betrayal, dark, mystery, wisdom,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things