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Famous Circulation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...fear from your bearing you're somewhat heated. 

"And I trust that a timely lubrication 
Of throttle will cool your circulation." 

As a well-made mixture she indicated, 
With joy and gladness he radiated. 

"Oh, come," said he, "in this soft spring weather, 
Let us run over the world together!" 

But she slipped his clutch with a gesture mocking, 
"Your heart," she said; "I can hear it knocking. 

"You haven't the gear at my pace to last; 
Both men and motors...Read more of this...



by Pound, Ezra
...The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
 Troubles my sleep,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
 Troubles my sleep.
Nunc dimittis, now lettest thou thy servant,
Now lettest thou thy servant
 Depart in peace.
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought ...Read more of this...

by Carver, Raymond
...And all at length are gathered in.
 --LOUISE BOGAN

By the time I came around to feeling pain
and woke up, moonlight
flooded the room. My arm lay paralyzed,
propped up like an old anchor under
your back. You were in a dream,
you said later, where you'd arrived
early for the dance. But after
a moment's anxiety you were okay
because it was re...Read more of this...

by Stevenson, Robert Louis
...buffet, night and morning,
Told me my grandmamma was near;
Whether she praised me high and clear
Through her unrivalled circulation,
Or, sanctimonious insincere,
She damned me with a misquotation -
A chequered but a sweet relation,
Say, was it not, my granny dear?

Believe me, granny, altogether
Yours, though perhaps to your surprise.
Oft have you spruced my wounded feather,
Oft brought a light into my eyes -
For notice still the writer cries.
In any civil age or nati...Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...illing wire in the blood
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.
The dance along the artery
The circulation of the lymph
Are figured in the drift of stars
Ascend to summer in the tree
We move above the moving tree
In light upon the figured leaf
And hear upon the sodden floor
Below, the boarhound and the boar
Pursue their pattern as before
But reconciled among the stars.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neit...Read more of this...



by McHugh, Heather
...here
Knew what they meant.I had no business

With the things they knew.Nor did I feel myself
Drawn back through Circulation into Reference,
Until I saw how blue I had become, by virtue
Of its five TVs, their monitors abuzz with is's

Etymologies...)...Read more of this...

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