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Famous Clinked Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Masefield, John
...> 
I thought of't, sitting in my corner 
After the time-keep struck his warner 
(Two brandy flasks, for fear of noise, 
Clinked out the time to us two boys). 
And while the seconds chafed and gloved me 
I thought of Nell's eyes when she loved me, 
And wondered how my tot would end, 
First Nell cast off and now my friend; 
And in the moonlight dim and wan 
I knew quite well my luck was gone; 
And looking round I felt a spite 
At all who'd come to see me fight; 
The five an...Read more of this...



by Forche, Carolyn
...d legs of the women
 shimmered.
They held their arms in front of them like ghosts.

The coal bones of the house clinked in a kimono of smoke.
An attention hovered over the dream where the world had been.

For if Hiroshima in the morning, after the bomb has fallen,
 is like a dream, one must ask whose dream it is. {1}

Must understand how not to speak would carry it with us.
With bones put into rice bowls.
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