Famous Decoration Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Decoration poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous decoration poems. These examples illustrate what a famous decoration poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...e precious drink-vessel. The people have passed elsewhere.
The hard helmet must be, decked with gold,
deprived of its decoration. Its attendant sleeps,
who should polish the war-mask.
Likewise the mail-coat that experienced battle
over the breaking of boards and the bites of iron
decays with its warrior. Nor can the ringed byrnie
go about widely after its war-chief,
upon the back of the hero. There is no joy of the harp,
the diversion of glee-wood, nor the excellent ...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...hop boys and the post office
chatter and the church gossip and the old pieces the
band played on the Fourth of July and Decoration Day
And sobbed at her fate and beat her head against the
bars and was going to kill herself
When the thought came to her that if she was going to
die she might as well die struggling for a clutch of
romance among the streets of Chicago.
She has a job now at six dollars a week in the basement
of the Boston Store
And even now she beats her head agai...Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...uch visions made each moment sweet
For this receptive ancient child.
Because it was old Martin's lot
To be, not make, a decoration,
Shall we then scorn him, having not
His genius of appreciation?
Rich joy and love he got and gave;
His heart was merry as his dress;
Pile laurel wreaths upon his grave
Who did not gain, but was, success!...Read more of this...
by
Kilmer, Joyce
...ne
on this train to read,
sealing the hollowed interiors
--some of them grand once,
you can tell by
the fillips of decoration,
stone leaves, the frieze
of sunflowers.
Desolate fields--open spaces,
in a city where you
can hardly turn around!--
seem to center
on little flames,
something always burning
in a barrel or can
As if to represent
inextinguishable,
dogged persistence?
Though whether what burns
is will or rage or
harsh amalgam
I couldn't say.
But I ...Read more of this...
by
Doty, Mark
...ches were erected,
While the spectators standing by seemed very dejected.
And through the Central Avenue, to make the decorations complete,
There were pedestals erected, rising fourteen to fifteen feet,
And at the foot and top of each pedestal were hung decorations of green bay,
Also beautiful wreaths and evergreen festoons all in grand array.
And there were torches fastened on pieces of wood stuck in the ground;
And as the people gazed on the weird-like scene, their silenc...Read more of this...
by
McGonagall, William Topaz
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