Famous Dominate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bishop Blougrams Apology

...t point gained, 
Who have a soul and body that exact 
A comfortable care in many ways. 
There's power in me and will to dominate 
Which I must exercise, they hurt me else: 
In many ways I need mankind's respect, 
Obedience, and the love that's born of fear: 
While at the same time, there's a taste I have, 
A toy of soul, a titillating thing, 
Refuses to digest these dainties crude. 
The naked life is gross till clothed upon: 
I must take what men offer, with a grace 
As thoug...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Custer

...o foul with sickening stench each passing wind
And rouse the demon in the savage mind, 
Save in the heart where virtues dominate
Injustice always breeds its natural offspring- hate.



IX.
The chieftain of the Sioux, great Sitting Bull, 
Mused o'er their wrongs, and felt his heart swell full
Of bitter vengeance. Torn with hate's unrest
He called a council and his braves addressed.
'From fair Wisconsin's shimmering lakes of blue
Long years ago the white man drove the Sioux.
Ma...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Essential Beauty

...as or electric), quarter-profile cats
By slippers on warm mats,
Reflect none of the rained-on streets and squares

They dominate outdoors. Rather, they rise
Serenely to proclaim pure crust, pure foam,
Pure coldness to our live imperfect eyes
That stare beyond this world, where nothing's made
As new or washed quite clean, seeking the home
All such inhabit. There, dark raftered pubs
Are filled with white-clothed ones from tennis-clubs,
And the boy puking his heart out in the Ge...Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

Koening Of The River

...retended that you were a fool.
He banked and leaned tiredly on the pole.
If I'm a character called Koenig, then I
shall dominate my future like a fiction
in which there is a real river and real sky,
so I'm not really tired, and should push on.

The lights between the leaves were beautiful,
and, as in that far life, now he was grateful
for any pool of light between the dull, usual
clouds of life: a sunspot haloed his tonsure;
silver and copper coins danced on the river;
his he...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

Lament For Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

...s 
to see his body without a chance of rest. 

Here I want to see those men of hard voice. 
Those that break horses and dominate rivers; 
those men of sonorous skeleton who sing 
with a mouth full of sun and flint. 

Here I want to see them. Before the stone. 
Before this body with broken reins. 
I want to know from them the way out 
for this captain stripped down by death. 

I want them to show me a lament like a river 
wich will have sweet mists and deep shores, 
to take th...Read more of this...
by García Lorca, Federico


Sculptor

...nd shapes
The flimsy light; arms folded
Watches his cumbrous world eclipse

Inane worlds of wind and cloud.
Bronze dead dominate the floor,
Resistive, ruddy-bodied,
Dwarfing us. Our bodies flicker

Toward extinction in those eyes
Which, without him, were beggared
Of place, time, and their bodies.
Emulous spirits make discord,

Try entry, enter nightmares
Until his chisel bequeaths
Them life livelier than ours,
A solider repose than death's....Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

Stalk Me

...e
You're not fooled by my clever ruse
***** goddess? I think not
I'm just a sucker for punishment
So punish me
Spank me
Dominate my sock drawer 
And stalk me


Don't stalk Jodie Foster, David Letterman or John S. Hall
Don't go through their trash 
Their trash is boring
play with my trash
Hurry, I'm waiting
I'm pleading
Just come on and do it
Chew me choke me and stalk me
That'll teach me to write all that goddamned poetry...Read more of this...
by Estep, Maggie

String Bass

...Some like to dominate,
others caress
a voluptuous rhythm
on pliant strings.

This pulse drives life
through wanton counterpoint,
the heart and harmony
of things....Read more of this...
by Green, Adrian

The Battle

...the hour;
Then when we met I thrilled to see
 'Twas she who shrank from me.

So breath to breath we battled there,
 To dominate each other;
And though her onions odious were,
 My garlic was a smother;
Till loth I said: 'If we would kiss
 Let's call an armistice.

'Now we have proved that we are true
 To our opinions,
My garlic I'll give up if you
 Give up your onions.'
And so next day with honey sips
 How sweet her lips!...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Circus Animals Desertion

...and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.

 III

Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving ****
Who keeps the till. No...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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