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Famous Deep End Poems by Famous Poets

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

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For in swimming baths all round the country
Joe were noted for daring and strength; 
Quite often he'd dived in the deep end,
And thought nothing of swimming a length.

So they wrote him, C/o Workhouse Master, 
Joe were spending the summer with him,
And promised him two Christmas puddings
If over the Channel he'd swim. 

Joe jumped into t' breach like an 'ero,
He said, "All their fears I'll relieve, 
And it isn't their puddings I'm after,
As I told them last Christmas Eve...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott



...simply won't tell you.

How frail our generation has got, how sallow
and pinched with just surviving! We all go off the deep end
finally, gold beaten thinly out to yellow.
And why this is, I'll never be able to tell you....Read more of this...
by Justice, Donald

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