Famous Dog Days Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Epilogue

by D. H. Lawrence
 Patience, little Heart.
One day a heavy, June-hot woman 
Will enter and shut the door to stay. 

And when your stifling heart would summon 
Cool, lonely night, her roused breasts will keep the night at bay,
Sitting in your room like two tiger-lilies 
Flaming on after sunset, 
Destroying the cool, lonely night with the glow of their hot twilight;
There in the...Read more of this...

Head Against The Walls

by Paul Eluard
 There were only a few of them 
In all the earth
Each one thought he was alone
They sang, they were right
To sing
But they sang the way you sack a city
The way you kill yourself. 

Frayed moist night
Shall we endure you
Longer
Shall we not shake
Your cloacal evidence
We shall not wait for a morning
Made to measure
We wanted to see in other people's eyes
Their...Read more of this...

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