Famous Arable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Winter under cultivation

by Emily Dickinson
 Winter under cultivation
Is as arable as Spring....Read more of this...

Field Thistle

by Judith Skillman
 Herb and spine,
the flat-fisted dream
of stars and dew
formed when he walked
with his telescope
through grasses spotted
by the spit bug.

A raucous noise,
the dawn of great beauty
and he with his tripod
matting the grasses as he walked.

I never saw him dead
on a bed of white down.
Never heard past
the death rattle, 
and so, for me, he lives 
there in the ragged, noxious weeds
that make...Read more of this...

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