Famous Clearings Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...ts, 
The Union, always swarming with blatherers, and always sure and impregnable, 
The unsurvey’d interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers;
Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States, 
Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost
 parts; 
Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men, 
Responding their manners, speech, dress, friend...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach )

...into the night rode he,
Now through the great black woodland,
Now by the white-beached sea.

He rode through the silent clearings,
He came to the ferry wide,
And thrice he called to the boatman
Asleep on the other side.

He set his horse to the river,
He swam to Newbury town,
And he called up Justice Sewall
In his nightcap and his gown.

And the grave and worshipful justice
(Upon whose soul be peace!)
Set his name to the jailer's warrant
For Goodwife Cole's release.

Then thr...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf

The Thought-Fox

...nto the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come

Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business

Till, with sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed....Read more of this...
by Hughes, Ted

To An Old Mate

...followed are clear -- 
The jovial last nights of December, 
The solemn first days of the year, 
Long tramps through the clearings and timber, 
Short partings on platform and pier. 

I can still feel the spirit that bore us, 
And often the old stars will shine -- 
I remember the last spree in chorus 
For the sake of that other Lang Syne, 
When the tracks lay divided before us, 
Your path through the future and mine. 

Through the frost-wind that cut like whip-lashes, 
Through ...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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