Famous Absentminded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Young Child And His Pregnant Mother

by Delmore Schwartz
 At four years Nature is mountainous,
Mysterious, and submarine. Even

A city child knows this, hearing the subway's
Rumor underground. Between the grate,

Dropping his penny, he learned out all loss,
The irretrievable cent of fate,

And now this newest of the mysteries,
Confronts his honest and his studious eyes----

His mother much too fat and absentminded,
Gazing past his face, careless of him,

His fume, his charm, his...Read more of this...

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