Famous Compass Point Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Compass Point poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous compass point poems. These examples illustrate what a famous compass point poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Yeats, William Butler
...I meditate upon a swallow's flight,
Upon a aged woman and her house,
A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night
Although that western cloud is luminous,
Great works constructed there in nature's spite
For scholars and for poets after us,
Thoughts long knitted into a single thought,
A dance-like glory that those walls begot.
There Hyde before he had beaten...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...Runs to no compass point
But starts within the human heart
Where travellers in twos may go
As for a while it winds beside
A man-made road then veers aside
We met at a cross-roads once and journeyed
Together for a while across a moor
And then on horseback sadly you waved adieu....Read more of this...
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