Famous Canters Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Cirque DHiver

...at pierces both her body and her soul

and goes through his, and reappears below,
under his belly, as a big tin key.
He canters three steps, then he makes a bow,
canters again, bows on one knee,
canters, then clicks and stops, and looks at me.

The dancer, by this time, has turned her back.
He is the more intelligent by far.
Facing each other rather desperately—
his eye is like a star—
we stare and say, "Well, we have come this far."...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth


Northern Farmer: New Style

...Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?
Proputty, proputty, proputty--that's what I 'ears 'em saäy.
Proputty, proputty, proputty--Sam, thou's an ass for thy paaïns:
Theer's moor sense i' one o' 'is legs, nor in all thy braaïns.
Woä--theer's a craw to pluck wi' tha, Sam; yon 's parson's 'ouse--
Dosn't thou knaw that a man mun be eäther a man or a mouse?
Time to think on it then; for ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Big Top

...e.
Now, one shall work in the living rock with a mallet 
and a knife,
And another shall dance on a big white horse that canters round 
a ring,
By another's hand shall colours stand in similitude of life;
And the hearts of the three shall be moved by one mysterious high 
thing.
For the sculptor and the acrobat and the painter 
are the same.
They know one hope, one fear, one pride, one sorrow and one mirth,
And they take delight in the endless fight for the fickle world's 
accl...Read more of this...
by Kilmer, Joyce

The Everlasting Mercy

...into the night 
Knowing deep down that she was right. 
I'd often hear[d] religious ranters, 
And put them down as windy canters, 
But this old mother made me see 
the harm I done by being me. 
Being both strong and given to sin 
I 'stracted weaker vessels in. 
So back to bar to get more drink, 
I didn't dare begin to think, 
And there were drinks and drunken singing, 
As though this life were dice for flinging; 
Dice to be flung, and nothing furder, 
And Christ's blood just a...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

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