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Famous Circa Poems by Famous Poets

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

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per lo patto che Dio con No? puose,
del mondo che gi? mai pi? non s'allaga:
 cos? di quelle sempiterne rose
volgiensi circa noi le due ghirlande,
e s? l'estrema a l'intima rispuose.
 Poi che 'l tripudio e l'altra festa grande,
s? del cantare e s? del fiammeggiarsi
luce con luce gaudiose e blande,
 insieme a punto e a voler quetarsi,
pur come li occhi ch'al piacer che i move
conviene insieme chiudere e levarsi;
 del cor de l'una de le luci nove
si mosse voce, che l'ago a la ...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante



...As angels’ wings and delicate as ash

And tinted with a splash of lemon

And a dash of mignonette.



I last saw Sheila circa nineteen sixty seven

Expelled from grammar school wearing a poncho

Hand-made from an army blanket

Working a stall in Kirkgate Market.



Brenda Williams, po?te maudit if ever,

By then installed as muse number three

Grew sadly jealous for the only time

In thirty-seven years: muse number two

Passed into the blue



There is another muse, who makes...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
..."You must choose between me and your cigar."
 -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885.


Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.

We quarrelled about Havanas -- we fought o'er a good cheroot,
And I knew she is exacting, and she says I am a brute.

Open the old cigar-box -- let me consider a space;
In the soft blue veil of the vapour musing on Maggie's face.

Maggie is...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...pholstered in gift-wrap fabric, chromed
in places, design possibility

for the future canned ham.
Its genius
wonderful, circa I993.

I've assumed a great many things:
the perversity of choices, affairs
I did or did not have.

But let the record show
that I was happy.

O let the hideous chair

stand! For the Chinese apothecary
with his roots and fluids;
for Paoul at the bank;

for the young woman in Bailey's Drug,
expert on henna; and Warren Beatty,
tough, sleek stray. For Flu...Read more of this...
by Belieu, Erin

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