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Famous Conforming Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...your beak, however, is frost-bitten, 
 so stick at home on a cold day". 

 The nose, eh? 

 As irretrievable as time, 
 conforming to the laws of medicine, 
 your nose, like that of any person, 
 keep growing 
 steadily, 
 with triumph! 

 The noses of celebrities, 
 of guards 
 and ministers of ours 
 grow, snoring restlessly like owls 
 at night, along with plants and trees. 

 They're cool and crooked, resembling bills, 
 they're squeezed in doors, 
 get hurt by boxers, 
 ...Read more of this...
by Voznesensky, Andrei



...d of all blemishment;
Which it reducing to her first perfection,
Beholdeth free from flesh's frail infection.

And then conforming it unto the light,
Which in itself it hath remaining still,
Of that first Sun, yet sparkling in his sight,
Thereof he fashions in his higher skill
An heavenly beauty to his fancy's will;
And it embracing in his mind entire,
The mirror of his own thought doth admire.

Which seeing now so inly fair to be,
As outward it appeareth to the eye,
And with...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund
...d of all blemishment;
Which it reducing to her first perfection,
Beholdeth free from flesh's frail infection.

And then conforming it unto the light,
Which in itself it hath remaining still,
Of that first Sun, yet sparkling in his sight,
Thereof he fashions in his higher skill
An heavenly beauty to his fancy's will;
And it embracing in his mind entire,
The mirror of his own thought doth admire.

Which seeing now so inly fair to be,
As outward it appeareth to the eye,
And with...Read more of this...
by Spenser, Edmund
...hem and won't be like them and won't conform 
then you're just the worm that has turned, 
in either case, a worm. 

The conforming worm stays just inside the skin 
respectably unseen, and cheerfully gnaws away at the heart of life, 
making it all rotten inside. 

The unconforming worm -- that is, the worm that has turned -- 
gnaws just the same, gnawing the substance out of life, 
but he insists on gnawing a little hole in the social epidermis 
and poking his head out and wav...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.
...Today I am a slave to fickle wealth, society's rules, and city's customs, and purchased friends, pleasing the people by conforming to the strange and narrow laws of man. I was born to be free and enjoy the bounty of life, but I find myself like a beast of burden so heavily laden with gold that his back is breaking. 

"Where are the spacious plains, the singing brooks, the pure breeze, the closeness of Nature? Where is my deity? I have lost all! Naught remains save loneliness ...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil



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