Famous Digression Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Digression poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous digression poems. These examples illustrate what a famous digression poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ry moans,
And strikes the ever-deep’ning tones,
Still louder shrieks, and heavier groans!
Your pardon, sir, for this digression:
I maist forgat my Dedication;
But when divinity comes ’cross me,
My readers still are sure to lose me.
So, sir, you see ’twas nae daft vapour;
But I maturely thought it proper,
When a’ my works I did review,
To dedicate them, sir, to you:
Because (ye need na tak it ill),
I thought them something like yoursel’.
Then patronize them wi...Read more of this...
by
Burns, Robert
...’ worry’d ither in diversion;
Until wi’ daffin’ weary grown
Upon a knowe they set them down.
An’ there began a lang digression.
About the “lords o’ the creation.”
CÆSAR I’ve aften wonder’d, honest Luath,
What sort o’ life poor dogs like you have;
An’ when the gentry’s life I saw,
What way poor bodies liv’d ava.
Our laird gets in his racked rents,
His coals, his kane, an’ a’ his stents:
He rises when he likes himsel’;
His flunkies answer at the bell;
He ca’s...Read more of this...
by
Burns, Robert
...Sadler's Wells to see the play
In hopes the new impression
Might in her thoughts, from grave to gay
Effect some slight digression.
I asked three gay young dogs from town
To join us in our folly,
Whose mirth, I thought, might serve to drown
My sister's melancholy:
The lively Jones, the sportive Brown,
And Robinson the jolly.
The maid announced the meal in tones
That I myself had taught her,
Meant to allay my sister's moans
Like oil on troubled water:
I rushed to J...Read more of this...
by
Carroll, Lewis
...i tiranni, e un Marcel diventa
ogne villan che parteggiando viene.
Fiorenza mia, ben puoi esser contenta
di questa digression che non ti tocca,
mercé del popol tuo che si argomenta.
Molti han giustizia in cuore, e tardi scocca
per non venir sanza consiglio a l'arco;
ma il popol tuo l'ha in sommo de la bocca.
Molti rifiutan lo comune incarco;
ma il popol tuo solicito risponde
sanza chiamare, e grida: «I' mi sobbarco!».
Or ti fa lieta, ché tu hai ben onde:
t...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
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