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Famous Combustible Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Yeats, William Butler
...one perfectly
As though he had but that one trade alone.

 XI

Some burn dam faggots, others may consume
The entire combustible world in one small room
As though dried straw, and if we turn about
The bare chimney is gone black out
Because the work had finished in that flare.
Soldier, scholar, horseman, he,
As 'twere all life's epitome.
What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?

 XII

I had thought, seeing how bitter is that wind
That shakes the shutter, to ...Read more of this...



by Milton, John
...the force 
Of subterranean wind transprots a hill 
Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side 
Of thundering Etna, whose combustible 
And fuelled entrails, thence conceiving fire, 
Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, 
And leave a singed bottom all involved 
With stench and smoke. Such resting found the sole 
Of unblest feet. Him followed his next mate; 
Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood 
As gods, and by their own recovered strength, 
Not by the suff...Read more of this...

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