Famous Allegiances Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by William Stafford
 It is time for all the heroes to go home
if they have any, time for all of us common ones
to locate ourselves by the real things
we live by.

Far to the north, or indeed in any direction,
strange mountains and creatures have always lurked-
elves, goblins, trolls, and spiders:-we
encounter them in dread and wonder,

But once we have tasted far streams, touched the...Read more of this...

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