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Famous Discriminating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...utright, as I have done just now. 
The interview was gracious: they anoint 
(To me aside) each other with fine praise: 
Discriminating compliments they raise, 
That hit with wondrous aim on the weak point: 
My Lady's nose of Nature might complain. 
It is not fashioned aptly to express 
Her character of large-browed steadfastness. 
But Madam says: Thereof she may be vain! 
Now, Madam's faulty feature is a glazed 
And inaccessible eye, that has soft fires, 
Wide gates, at love-...Read more of this...
by Meredith, George



...You're the girl! 
A Ram's Horn orchid seedpod for a woodchuck 
Sounds something like. Better than farmer's beans 
To a discriminating appetite, 
Though the Ram's Horn is seldom to be had 
In bushel lots--doesn't come on the market. 
But, Anne, I'm troubled; have you told me all? 
You're hiding something. That's as bad as lying. 
You ask this lawyer man. And it's not safe 
With a lawyer at hand to find you out. 
Nothing is hidden from some people, Anne. 
You don't tell me tha...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

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