Famous Rowe Poems by Famous Poets

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

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28. Poor Mailie's Elegy

...we,
Her living image in her yowe
Comes bleating till him, owre the knowe,
 For bits o’ bread;
An’ down the briny pearls rowe
 For Mailie dead.


 She was nae get o’ moorland tips,
Wi’ tauted ket, an’ hairy hips;
For her forbears were brought in ships,
 Frae ’yont the Tweed.
A bonier fleesh ne’er cross’d the clips
 Than Mailie’s dead.


 Wae worth the man wha first did shape
That vile, wanchancie thing—a raip!
It maks guid fellows girn an’ gape,
 Wi’ chokin dread;
An’ Robin’s ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


542. Song—Fragment—the Wren's Nest

...n, wad ye be in?
Thou’s ne’er get leave to lie without,
 And I within, and I within,
Sae lang’s I hae an auld clout
 To rowe ye in, to rowe ye in....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Tale of the Miser and the Poet

...s? 
Your PRIOR cou'd not keep in Places; 
And your VAN-BRUG had found no Quarter, 
But for his dabbling in the Morter. 
ROWE no Advantages cou'd hit on, 
Till Verse he left, to write North-Briton. 
PHILIPS, who's by the Shilling known, 
Ne'er saw a Shilling of his own. 
Meets {2} PHILOMELA, in the Town 
Her due Proportion of Renown? 
What Pref'rence has ARDELIA seen, 
T'expel, tho' she cou'd write the Spleen? 
Of Coach, or Tables, can you brag, 
Or better Cloaths than Poet RA...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book

...judgment check'd what Fletcher writ;
How Shadwell hasty, Wycherley was slow;
But, for the passions, Southerne sure and Rowe.
These, only these, support the crowded stage,
From eldest Heywood down to Cibber's age."

All this may be; the people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the Careless Husband praise,
Or say our fathers never broke a rule;
Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
But let them own, that...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

The Shepheardes Calender: April

...o sweete?
Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

Or bene thine eyes attempred to the yeare,
Quenching the gasping furrowes thirst with rayne?
Like April shoure, so stremes the trickling teares
Adowne thy cheeke, to quenche thy thristye payne.

HOBBINOLL
Nor thys, nor that, so muche doeth make me mourne,
But for the ladde, whome long I lovd so deare,
Nowe loves a lasse, that all his love doth scorne:
He plongd in payne, his tressed locks dooth teare.

Shepheards delights he...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund


Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01

...;
O verrey foles! nyce and blinde be ye;
Ther nis not oon can war by other be.'

And with that word he gan cast up the browe,
Ascaunces, 'Lo! is this nought wysly spoken?' 
At which the god of love gan loken rowe
Right for despyt, and shoop for to ben wroken;
He kidde anoon his bowe nas not broken;
For sodeynly he hit him at the fulle;
And yet as proud a pekok can he pulle. 

O blinde world, O blinde entencioun!
How ofte falleth al theffect contraire
Of surquidrye and foul pr...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 02

...is that?
What! Bet than swiche fyve? Ey, nay, y-wis!
For al this world ne can I reden what
It sholde been; som Iape, I trowe, is this; 
And but your-selven telle us what it is,
My wit is for to arede it al to lene;
As help me god, I noot nat what ye meene.'

'And I your borow, ne never shal, for me,
This thing be told to yow, as mote I thryve!' 
'And why so, uncle myn? Why so?' quod she.
'By god,' quod he, 'that wole I telle as blyve;
For prouder womman were ther noon on-lyve...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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