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Famous Abating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sphered and complete. In restless eagerness
He waited for the "Horn of Fortune". Well
Had he his promise kept, abating not one pound.

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Spring slipped away to Summer. Still 
no glass
Sighted the brigantine. Then Grootver came
Demanding Jufvrouw Kurler. His trespass
Was justified, for he had won the game.
Christine begged time, more time! Midsummer went,
And Grootver waxed impatient. Still the ship
Tarried. Christine, betrayed and weary, ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy



...the cumbered land
     Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand.
     So toilsome was the road to trace
     The guide, abating of his pace,
     Led slowly through the pass's jaws
     And asked Fitz-James by what strange cause
     He sought these wilds, traversed by few
     Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.
     IV.

     'Brave Gael, my pass, in danger tried
     Hangs in my belt and by my side
     Yet, sooth to tell,' the Saxon said,
     'I dreamt not now to...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter
...e worse;
Though the little lad tried hard to eat it,
At the finish he did the reverse.

The pain showed no signs of abating,
So at last they got Doctor to call.
He said it were in the ab-domain
And not in the stummick at all.

He sent up a bottle of physick,
With instructions on t' label to say,
'To be taken in a recumbent posture,
One teaspoon, three times a day.'

As Ma stood there reading the label
Pa started to fidget about.
He said 'Get a teaspoon and...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott
...to climb. 
They said 'twas the rottenest summer 
That Bury 'ad 'ad for some time. 

The rain showed no sign of abating, 
And water rose hour by hour, 
'Til the only dry land were at Blackpool, 
And that were on top of the Tower.

So Sam started swimming to Blackpool; 
It took 'im best part of a week. 
'Is clothes were wet through when 'e got there, 
And 'is boots were beginning to leak.

'E stood to 'is watch-chain in water, 
On Tower top, just before dar...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

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