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Famous Curdle Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kunitz, Stanley
...in the suburbs and the falling light
I followed him, and now down sandy road
Whitter than bone-dust, through the sweet
Curdle of fields, where the plums
Dropped with their load of ripeness, one by one.
Mile after mile I followed, with skimming feet,
After the secret master of my blood,
Him, steeped in the odor of ponds, whose indomitable love
Kept me in chains. Strode years; stretched into bird;
Raced through the sleeping country where I was young,
The silence unroll...Read more of this...



by Southey, Robert
...ight two ruffians appear
And between them a corpse did they bear.


XVII.

Then Mary could feel her heart-blood curdle cold!
Again the rough wind hurried by,--
It blew off the hat of the one, and behold
Even close to the feet of poor Mary it roll'd,--
She felt, and expected to die.


XVIII.

"Curse the hat!" he exclaims. "Nay come on and first hide
"The dead body," his comrade replies.
She beheld them in safety pass on by her side,
She seizes the hat, ...Read more of this...

by Butler, Ellis Parker
...ills
 The cheer on many a lip, we ride
 Like the onward rush of a whirling tide
 Up to the cannon’s mouth,
 Our cheers
 Curdle the blood of the cannoneers
 To right and left from his silenced guns
 In wild retreat the rebel runs.
 And the charge of the Iowa cavalry
 Rushes on!

 Can you stop the sea
 When the storm waves break on the sandy shore
 Driving the driftwood awrack? No more
 Can the rebel resist the terrible charge
 As we ride right up to their army’s marge -
 T...Read more of this...

by Walcott, Derek
...and guitars, 
a stone full of silence, which, if it gave tongue 
to the tortures done in the name of the Father, 
would curdle the blood of the marauding wolf, 
the fountain of generals, poets, and cripples 
who danced without moving over their graves 
with each revolution; her Caesarean was stitched 
by the teeth of machine guns,and every sunset 
she carried the Caribbean's elliptical basin 
as she had once carried the penitential napkins 
to be the footbath of dictators, Tr...Read more of this...

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