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Famous Beginner Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sexton, Anne
...re are chairs 
I lie on the floor. 
Only my hands are alive, 
touching beads. 
Word for word, I stumble. 
A beginner, I feel your mouth touch mine. 

I count beads as waves, 
hammering in upon me. 
I am ill at their numbers, 
sick, sick in the summer heat 
and the window above me 
is my only listener, my awkward being. 
She is a large taker, a soother. 
The giver of breath 
she murmurs, 
exhaling her wide lung like an enormous fish. 

Closer an...Read more of this...



by Chesterton, G K
...magic as your sorrows are. 

But on this, God's harp supernal, stretched but to be stricken once, 
Hoary time is a beginner, Life a bungler, Death a dunce. 
But I will not fear to match them-no, by God, I will not fear, 
I will learn you, I will play you and the stars stand still to hear....Read more of this...

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