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Famous Crepuscule Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
...All night I wrestled with a memory
Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought.
The crumbled wreck of years behind has wrought
Its disillusion; now I only cry
For peace, for power to forget the lie
Which hope too long has whispered. So I sought
The sleep which would not come, and night was fraught
With old emotions weeping silently.
I heard...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...in the regiment, they say.

And at night they gather round me, and I tell them of my roaming
 In the Country of the Crepuscule beside the Frozen Sea,
Where the musk-ox runs unchallenged, and the cariboo goes homing;
 And they sit like little children, just as quiet as can be:
 Men of every crime and colour, how they harken unto me!

And I tell them of the Furland, of the tumpline and the paddle,
 Of secret rivers loitering, that no one will explore;
And I tell them of the...Read more of this...

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