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Famous Clapham Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...d it holds a vast of various kinds of man;
And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu
 And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban.

Here's my wisdom for your use, as I learned it when the moose
 And the reindeer roared where Paris roars to-night:--
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
 "And--every--single--one--of--them--is--right!"...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard



...NEAR Clapham village, where fields began, 
Saint Edward met a beggar man. 
It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, 
The old man trembled for the fierce cold. 

Saint Edward cried, “It is monstrous sin
A beggar to lie in rags so thin! 
An old gray-beard and the frost so keen: 
I shall give him my fur-lined gaberdine.” 

He stripped off his gaberdine of ...Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

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