Famous Asterisk Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Asterisk poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous asterisk poems. These examples illustrate what a famous asterisk poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...He lived the Life of Ambush
And went the way of Dusk
And now against his subtle name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality intrenched
Within a star --...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...ates; ye remaining few
That number not the half of those we knew,
Ye, against whose familiar names not yet
The fatal asterisk of death is set,
Ye I salute! The horologe of Time
Strikes the half-century with a solemn chime,
And summons us together once again,
The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.
Where are the others? Voices from the deep
Caverns of darkness answer me: "They sleep!"
I name no names; instinctively I feel
Each at some well-remembered grave will ...Read more of this...
by
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...Of Glory not a Beam is left
But her Eternal House --
The Asterisk is for the Dead,
The Living, for the Stars --...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...--
Outstaring Masonry --
How went the Agile Kernel out
Contusion of the Husk
Nor Rip, nor wrinkle indicate
But just an Asterisk....Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...Who abdicated Ambush
And went the way of Dusk,
And now against his subtle Name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality
Secreted in a Star....Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
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