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Famous Commiseration Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...make a dream for man 
When Science was unborn. And after time, 
When we have earned our spiritual ears, 
And art’s commiseration of the truth 
No longer glorifies the singing beast,
Or venerates the clinquant charlatan,— 
Then shall at last come ringing through the sun, 
Through time, through flesh, a music that is true. 
For wisdom is that music, and all joy 
That wisdom:—you may counterfeit, you think,
The burden of it in a thousand ways; 
But as the bitterness tha...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...weeping; and her lowly plight, 
Immoveable, till peace obtained from fault 
Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought 
Commiseration: Soon his heart relented 
Towards her, his life so late, and sole delight, 
Now at his feet submissive in distress; 
Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, 
His counsel, whom she had displeased, his aid: 
As one disarmed, his anger all he lost, 
And thus with peaceful words upraised her soon. 
Unwary, and too desirous, as before, 
So n...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...only, or believe
That shadows are not nothing. Saskia said, 
Before she died, how they would swear at you, 
And in commiseration at themselves. 
She laughed a little, too, to think of them— 
And then at me.… That was before she died.

And I could wonder, as I look at you, 
There as I have you now, there as you are, 
Or nearly so as any skill of mine 
Has ever caught you in a bilious mirror,— 
Yes, I could wonder long, and with a reason,
If all but everything ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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