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Famous Discarding Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...ing war and defiance—And now the halyards have rais’d
 it, 
Side of my banner broad and blue—side of my starry banner, 
Discarding peace over all the sea and land. 

BANNER AND PENNANT.
Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave! 
No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone;
We may be terror and carnage, and are so now; 
Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten;) 
Nor market nor depot are we, ...Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...gs, white above the child who prays
Now on that tomb---and I shall feel thee guarding
Me, out of all the world; for me, discarding
Yon heaven thy home, that waits and opes its door.

III.

I would not look up thither past thy head
Because the door opes, like that child, I know,
For I should have thy gracious face instead,
Thou bird of God! And wilt thou bend me low
Like him, and lay, like his, my hands together,
And lift them up to pray, and gently tether
Me, as thy l...Read more of this...

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