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Famous Competing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...tle Blue-Bird -- assured
Her conscientious Voice will soar unmoved
Above ostensible Vicissitude.

First at the March -- competing with the Wind --
Her panting note exalts us -- like a friend --
Last to adhere when Summer cleaves away --
Elegy of Integrity....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily



...Go slow, my soul, to feed thyself
Upon his rare approach --
Go rapid, lest Competing Death
Prevail upon the Coach --
Go timid, should his final eye
Determine thee amiss --
Go boldly -- for thou paid'st his price
Redemption -- for a Kiss --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily
...n;
And learn as well, maybe, what language does
And how it does it, cutting across the world

Not always at the joints, competing with
Experience while cooperating with
Experience, and keeping an obstinate
Intransigence, uncanny, of its own.

Think finally about the secret will
Pretending obedience to Nature, but
Invidiously distinguishing everywhere,
Dividing up the world to conquer it.

And think also how funny knowledge is:
You may succeed in learning many trees
And callin...Read more of this...
by Nemerov, Howard
...more important 
To feel than to know. I had it all in my head; 
And I stayed where dreaming 
Was more important than competing 

In the land where the women come and go, talking 
Of Sara Bernhardt and Coco Chanel in the Sistine Chapel 
And men come and go, talking 
Of wars, children come and go, talking 
Of chocolate, and they all go, leaving 
Not much to think about exchanging 
Experiences with feelings, transforming 

Experiences into meanings, mixing 
Thought...Read more of this...
by Stojanovic, Dejan
...analyze the working of the brain machine, 
Working billions of cells, transmitters, and neutrons 

Flying, fighting, competing 
How do ideas come to life? 
That was another hard question. 

I was not able to find out anything about anything, 
Except that I was alive and felt alive and yet felt dead as well; 
I watched rain, fog, horses, birds, and trees, and I watched the blue; 

I really loved watching the blue every day; 
You loved the same, although maybe for d...Read more of this...
by Stojanovic, Dejan



...ance, children, I think it rorty
To be with people over forty. 

I can't say which, come eventide,
More tedious I find;
Competing with the juvenile stride,
Or meeting the juvenile mind.
So I think it rorty, yes, and nifty,
To be with people over fifty. 

The pidgin talk the youthful use
Bypasses conversation.
I can't believe the code they choose
Is a means of communication.
Oh to be with people over sixty
Despite their tendency to prolixty! 

The hours a working parent keeps
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by Nash, Ogden

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry