Famous Backgrounds Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Backgrounds poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous backgrounds poems. These examples illustrate what a famous backgrounds poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Yeats, William Butler
...there's a purpose set
Before the secret working mind:
Profane perfection of mankind.
Quattrocento put in paint
On backgrounds for a God or Saint
Gardens where a soul's at ease;
Where everything that meets the eye,
Flowers and grass and cloudless sky,
Resemble forms that are or seem
When sleepers wake and yet still dream.
And when it's vanished still declare,
With only bed and bedstead there,
That heavens had opened.
Gyres run on;
When that greater dream had gone...Read more of this...
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