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Famous Corsage Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...I cannot 
and I will not 
No, I cannot love you less 
Like the flower to the butterfly 
The corsage to the dress 

She turns my love to dust 
my destination empty 
my beliefs scattered: Diaspora! 

Who set this course - and why? 
Now my wings beat - 
without purpose 
Yet they speed......Read more of this...
by Milligan, Spike



...rself,
 reads in the day's papers what her husband is
 doing to the inter-state commerce commission, requires
 a larger corsage from year to year, and wonders
 sometimes how one man is coming along with
 six women....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl
...rough the disco parking lot
and swaying palms presage the lot of young libertines.

Inside the car a young lady wears a corsage of bullet-sized rodents.
Her date, the handsome cornerback, stretches his talons over the
molded steering wheel.

They park and walk into the lush starlit gardens behind the disco
just as the band is striking up.

Their keen eyes and ears twitch. The other couples
look beautiful tonight. They stroll around listening
to the brilliant conversation. The...Read more of this...
by Berman, David

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