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Famous Commendations Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Why don’t you laugh?—might even have done all that. 
I, who have learned so much, and said so much, 
And had the commendations of the great 
For one who rules herself—why don’t you cry?— 
And own a certain small authority
Among the blind, who see no more than ever, 
But like my voice,—I would have tossed it all 
To Tophet for one man; and he was jealous. 
I would have wound a snake around my neck 
And then have let it bite me till I died,
If my so doing would have made...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



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