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Famous Contributes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...hy, politics, manners, engineering, an appropriate native
 grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft, he or she is greatest who contributes the greatest
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Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets, 
People’s lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers; 
There will shortly be no more priests—I say their work is done,
Death is without emergencies here, but life is perpetual emergencies here, 
Are your body, ...Read more of this...



by Crane, Stephen
...ned with his triumphant face;
With the skins of wise men
He buys the trivial bows of all.
Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes a coverlet,
A coverlet for his contented slumber.
In guiltless ignorance, in ignorant guilt,
He delivered his secrets to the riven multitude.
"Thus I defended: Thus I wrought."
Complacent, smiling,
He stands heavily on the dead.
Erect on a pillar of skulls
He declaims his trampling of babes;
Smirking, fat, dripping,
He makes speec...Read more of this...

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