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Famous Announces Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Aiken, Conrad
...Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind
announces autumn, and the equinox
rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon.
Somewhere beyond the Gorge Li Po is gone,
looking for friendship or an old love's sleeve
or writing letters to his children, lost,
and to his children's children, and to us.
What was his light? of lamp or moon or sun?
Say that it changed, for better or for worse,
sifted by lea...Read more of this...



by Hall, Donald
...r wife will die 
at her strongest and most beautiful. 
New women come and go. All go. 
The pretty lover who announces 
that she is temporary
is temporary. The bold woman,
middle-aged against our old age,
sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand. 
Another friend of decades estranges himself 
in words that pollute thirty years. 
Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge 
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything....Read more of this...

by Moore, Thomas
...day;
Though, perhaps he may know it already,
As he, too, 's a sage in his way.
When next for the Treasury scene he
Announces "the Devil to pay",
Let him write on the bills, "Nota bene,
'Tis all in the family way."...Read more of this...

by Simic, Charles
...l
In whose heart the earth is still on fire,
The moon still has not been split-off;
Here is the message
Your long night announces:

Everything my eye encompasses this instant:
This fire, the cupped-hand, this window
With trees and miles of snow beyond it,
Even this thought, this poem,
Will be compressed
Into a lump of your sleep
For some other awakening....Read more of this...

by Ashbery, John
...he mysteries of pagination. 
Not what we see but how we see it matters; all's
Alike, the same, and we greet him who announces
The change as we would greet the change itself. 
All life is but a figment; conversely, the tiny
Tome that slips from your hand is not perhaps the 
Missing link in this invisible picnic whose leverage
Shrouds our sense of it. Therefore bivouac we 
On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by
Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is
Im...Read more of this...



by Cavafy, Constantine P
...andeurs.
The poet contemplates the matter deeply.

But he is interrupted by his servant who enters
running, and announces the portendous news.
The war with the Romans has begun.
The bulk of our army has crossed the borders.

The poet is speechless. What a disaster!
No time now for our glorious king
Mithridates, Dionysus and Eupator,
to occupy himself with greek poems.
In the midst of a war -- imagine, greek poems.

Phernazis is impatient. M...Read more of this...

by Schwartz, Delmore
...Caesar, the amplifier voice, announces
Crime and reparation. In the barber shop
Recumbent men attend, while absently
The barber doffs the naked face with cream.
Caesar proposes, Caesar promises
Pride, justice, and the sun
Brilliant and strong on everyone,
Speeding one hundred miles an hour across the land:
Caesar declares the will. The barber firmly
Planes the stubble with a...Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...He. Dear, I must be gone
 While night Shuts the eyes
 Of the household spies;
 That song announces dawn.

She. No, night's bird and love's
 Bids all true lovers rest,
 While his loud song reproves
 The murderous stealth of day.

He. Daylight already flies
 From mountain crest to crest

She. That light is from the moon.

He. That bird...

She. Let him sing on,
 I offer to love's play
 My dark declivitie...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET CCXII. Solea lontana in sonno consolarme. SHE ANNOUNCES TO HIM, IN A VISION, THAT HE WILL NEVER SEE HER MORE.  To soothe me distant far, in days gone by,With dreams of one whose glance all heaven combined,Was mine; now fears and sorrow haunt my mind,Read more of this...

by Webb, Charles
..., like twin hatchbacks headed away.

There are no wheels, just four steel nipples for sliding.
A hexagonal seal announces the defunct
"U.S. Trunk Company." The frame is wood—

big, heavy, cheap—covered with imitation leather,
its blue just slightly darker than Mom's eyes.
"It's beautiful. Much too expensive," she told Dad,

and kissed him. The lining is pink, quilted
acetate. Three sides have pouches with elastic tops—
stretched out now, li...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...the cheers raised by courage, the shrieks due to fear; 
 
 When the riot of flames, ruin, smoke, steel and blood, 
 Announces an army rolls along as a flood, 
 Which I follow, to harry the clamorous ranks, 
 Sharp-goading the laggards and pressing the flanks, 
 Till, a thresher 'mid ripest of corn, up I stand 
 With an oak for a flail in my unflagging hand. 
 
 Rise the groans! rise the screams! on my feet fall vain tears 
 As the roar of my laughter redoubles thei...Read more of this...

by Geyer, Bernadette
...the completion of necessary cycles. Machinery joined, unjoined, loud and effusive. Belligerent Train no sooner announces his arrival and is gone again, to another town, another set of rails against which to preen.

Can you feel Train's fist inside you? Can you feel the assault with the strength of ten thousand wishes blown from the head of a dandelion?

Train is gone and not gone. For us, Train is the still-warm track we know does not disappear, but even cont...Read more of this...

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