Famous Crossbeam Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Docker

...There, in the corner, staring at his drink. 
The cap juts like a gantry's crossbeam, 
Cowling plated forehead and sledgehead jaw. 
Speech is clamped in the lips' vice. 

That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic- 
Oh yes, that kind of thing could start again; 
The only Roman collar he tolerates 
Smiles all round his sleek pint of porter. 

Mosaic imperatives bang home like rivets; 
God is a foreman with certain definite views 
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by Heaney, Seamus


The Giant Puffball

...ing, hid me by,
    And came again after an age of cold,
    And hung me in the prison-house adry
    From the great crossbeam. Here defiled and old

    I perish through unnumbered hours, I swoon,
    Hacked with harsh knives to staunch a child's torn hand;
    And all my hopes must with my body soon
    Be but as crouching dust and wind-blown sand.

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by Blunden, Edmund

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