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Famous Carted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...the shade already.

You had only one dog,
One lone child.
You hid your biggest mirror,
Your undressed lovers.

Someone carted them off
In an open truck.
They were still naked, travelling
On their sofa

Over a darkening plain,
Some unknown Kansas or Nebraska
With a storm brewing.
The woman opening a red umbrella

In the truck. The boy
And the dog running after them,
As if after a rooster
With its head chopped off....Read more of this...
by Simic, Charles



...strangers who forgot
Their sorrows and their failures and themselves 
Before a few mysterious odds and ends 
Of marble carted from the Parthenon— 
And all for seeing what he was never to see, 
Because it was alive and he was dead—
Here was a wonder that was more profound 
Than any that was in fiddles and brass horns. 

“He knew, and in his knowledge there was death. 
He knew there was a region all around him 
That lay outside man’s havoc and affairs,
And yet was not all host...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...mer Callow.

How swift the summer goes, 
Forget-me-not, pink, rose. 
The young grass when I started 
And now the hay is carted, 
And now my song is ended, 
And all the summer splended; 
The blackbirds' second brood 
Routs beech leaves in the wood; 
The pink and rose have speeded, 
Forget-me-not has seeded. 
Only the winds that blew, 
The rain that makes things new, 
The earth that hides things old, 
And blessings manifold.

O lovely lily clean, 
O lily springing green, 
O lil...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John
...take in my neighbor's nursery
Would have to grow, to be even cursory,
And I would that performing sons and nephews
Were carted away with the daily refuse,
And I hold that frolicsome daughters and nieces
Are ample excuse for breaking leases.
You may take a sock at your daddy's tummy
Or climb all over your doting mummy,
But keep your attentions to me in check,
Or, sonny boy, I will wring your neck.
A happier man today I'd be
Had someone wrung it ahead of me....Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

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