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Famous Adjectives Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...death denies not one: the books all count, 
The songs all count; and yet God’s music has 
No modes, his language has no adjectives.”

“You may be right, you may be wrong,” said I; 
“But what has this that you are saying now— 
This nineteenth-century Nirvana-talk— 
To do with you and me?” The Captain raised 
His hand and held it westward, where a patched
And unwashed attic-window filtered in 
What barren light could reach us, and then said, 
With a suave, complacent resona...Read more of this...



by Field, Eugene
...hear):
There's no such voice as Jessie's.

Of other charms she hath such store
All rivalry excelling,
Though I used adjectives galore,
They'd fail me in the telling;
But now discretion stays my hand--
Adieu, eyes, voice, and tresses.
Of all the husbands in the land
There's none so fierce as Jessie's....Read more of this...

by Kinnell, Galway
...ed alphabets,
the roadlessness
to the other side of the darkness,

your arms
like the shoes left behind,
like the adjectives in the halting speech
of old men,
which once could call up the lost nouns.

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And you yourself,
some impossible Tuesday
in the year Two Thousand and Nine, will walk out
among the black stones
of the field, in the rain,

and the stones saying
over their one word, ci-g?t, ci-g?t, ci-g?t,

and the raindrops
hitting you on the fon...Read more of this...

by Raine, Kathleen
...A Gaelic bard they praise who in fourteen adjectives
Named the one indivisible soul of his glen;
For what are the bens and the glens but manifold qualities,
Immeasurable complexities of soul?
What are these isles but a song sung by island voices?
The herdsman sings ancestral memories
And the song makes the singer wise,
But only while he sings
Songs that were old when the old themselves were young,
S...Read more of this...

by Zaran, Lisa
...you explain to them,
this is me; that is not me.

However many words you choose
in whatever context with
whichever adjectives you use
could not compare.

Even you describing you
would not be you.
Not totally.

Your hands are folded
together, resting in your lap.
I study those hands until
every groove becomes familiar.

Like a favorite hat,
you wear your silence
comfortably.

I sometimes can not help
but wonder what we will
talk about if we ever
ru...Read more of this...



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