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Famous Archilochus Poems by Famous Poets

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

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On Building With Stone

by Jeffers, Robinson

...To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother
Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands
For only slaves, is a far sweeter toil than to cut
Passions in verse for a sick people.
I'd liefer bed one boulder in the house-wall than be the time's
Archilochus: we name not Homer: who now
Can even imagine the fabulous dawn when bay-leaves (to a blind
Beggar) ...Read more of this...

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