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Famous Dodo Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Smart, Christopher
...to the Heavens. 

Let Hur rejoice with the Water-wag-tail, who is a neighbour, and loves to be looked at. 

Let Dodo rejoice with the purple Worm, who is cloathed sumptuously, tho he fares meanly. 

Let Ahio rejoice with the Merlin who is a cousin german of the hawk. 

Let Joram rejoice with the Water-Rail, who takes his delight in the river. 

Let Chileab rejoice with Ophion who is clean made, less than an hart, and a Sardinian. 

Let Shephatiah rejoi...Read more of this...



by Sandburg, Carl
...es and old dogs run and fly in the dreams.

Babies sleep. In flannels the papoose faces, the bambino noses, and dodo, dodo the song of many matushkas. Babies—a leaf on a tree in the spring sun. A nub of a new thing sucks the sap of a tree in the sun, yes a new thing, a what-is-it? A left hand stirs, an eyelid twitches, the milk in the belly bubbles and gets to be blood and a left hand and an eyelid. Sleep is a maker of makers....Read more of this...

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