Famous Complimenting Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Complimenting poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous complimenting poems. These examples illustrate what a famous complimenting poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Haxton, Brooks
...instead of tears,
if I had understood my father's business,
I could be selling men's clothes. I could be
kneeling, complimenting someone at the bay
of mirrors, mumblingly, with pinpoints pressed
between my lips. That was the life I held
in scorn while young, because I thought to live
without distraction, using words. Yet, looking
now into the room of strangers' eyes, I wanted
them to feel what I said touch, as palpably
as when a men in double worsted felt
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