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Famous Astonish Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...hile they may--
 The section , etc.

Read their 'ome letters, their papers an' such,
For they'll move after dark to astonish the Dutch
 With a section, etc.

'Untin' for shade as the long hours pass--
Blankets on rifles or burrows in grass,
 Lies the section, etc.

Dossin' or beatin' a shirt in the sun,
Watching chameleons or cleanin' a gun,
 Waits the section, etc.

With nothin' but stillness as far as you please,
An' the silly mirage stringin' islands an' se...Read more of this...



by Stein, Gertrude
...Why is the world at peace.
This may astonish you a little but when you realise how
easily Mrs. Charles Bianco sells the work of American
painters to American millionaires you will recognize that
authorities are constrained to be relieved. Let me tell you a
story. A painter loved a woman. A musician did not sing.
A South African loved books. An American was a woman
and n...Read more of this...

by St Vincent Millay, Edna
...ead 
is more majestic than 
that of the Episcopal minister 
approaching the pulpit 
of a Sunday. 
    These things 
astonish me beyond words....Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...Well, I have—for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of
 a rock has.

Do you take it I would astonish? 
Does the daylight astonish? Does the early redstart, twittering through the
 woods? 
Do I astonish more than they? 

This hour I tell things in confidence; 
I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

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Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; 
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat? 

What is a man, anyho...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...nd perfect men were to appear, it would not amaze me;
Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear’d, it would not astonish me. 

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, 
It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth. 

Here a great personal deed has room; 
A great deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law, and mocks all authority and all argument
 against
 it. 
...Read more of this...



by Marvell, Andrew
...or, jealous of its Lords long stay,
It try's t'invite him thus away.
The River in it self is drown'd,
And Isl's th' astonish Cattle round.

Let others tell the Paradox,
How Eels now bellow in the Ox;
How Horses at their Tails do kick,
Turn'd as they hang to Leeches quick;
How Boats can over Bridges sail;
And Fishes do the Stables scale.
How Salmons trespassing are found;
And Pikes are taken in the Pound.

But I, retiring from the Flood,
Take Sanctuary in the W...Read more of this...

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