Famous Accrued Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Avons Harvest

...say. I leave all that to you. 
Whether it was an evil chance alone, 
Or some invidious juggling of the stars, 
Or some accrued arrears of ancestors
Who throve on debts that I was here to pay, 
Or sins within me that I knew not of, 
Or just a foretaste of what waits in hell 
For those of us who cannot love a worm,— 
Whatever it was, or whence or why it was,
One day there came a stranger to the school. 
And having had one mordacious glimpse of him 
That filled my eyes and was ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


France the 18th year of These States

...eath—was not so shock’d at the repeated
 fusillades of the guns. 

2
Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued retribution? 
Could I wish humanity different? 
Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
Or that there be no justice in destiny or time? 

3
O Liberty! O mate for me! 
Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of
 need; 
Here too, though long represt, can never be destroy’d; 
Here too could rise at l...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Starting from Paumanok

...body, 
Item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners, and pass to
 fitting spheres, 
Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.

Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the
 main concern, 
Any more than a man’s substance and life, or a woman’s substance and
 life, return in the body and the Soul, 
Indifferently before death and after death. 

Behold! the body includes and is the meaning, ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Dead King

...nd God poured him an exquisite wine, that was daily renewed to him,
In the clear-welling love of his peoples that daily accrued to him.
Honour and service we gave him, rejoicingly fearless;
Faith absolute, trust beyond speech and a friendship as peerless.
And since he was Master and Servant in all that we asked him,
We leaned hard on his wisdom in all things, knowing not how we tasked him.
For on him each new day laid command, every tyrannous hour,
To confront, or confirm, or...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Unnamed Lands

...
 prisons, slaves, heroes, poets, I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen
 world—counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world. 
I suspect I shall meet them there,
I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


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