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Famous Boated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...—and would not
 give it up; 
How he saved the drifting company at last: 
How the lank loose-gown’d women look’d when boated from the side of
 their prepared graves; 
How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp’d
 unshaved men: 
All this I swallow—it tastes good—I like it well—it becomes mine;
I am the man—I suffer’d—I was there. 

The disdain and calmness of olden martyrs; 
The mother, condemn’d for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her ch...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...gress', and 'ungrateful Puss', 
And swore he longed at college, only longed, 
All else was well, for she-society. 
They boated and they cricketed; they talked 
At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics; 
They lost their weeks; they vext the souls of deans; 
They rode; they betted; made a hundred friends, 
And caught the blossom of the flying terms, 
But missed the mignonette of Vivian-place, 
The little hearth-flower Lilia. Thus he spoke, 
Part banter, part affection. 
'True,' s...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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