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Famous Dotting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...forward? is it too only halting awhile, 
Till night and sleep pass over?) 

Now in those camps of green—in their tents dotting the world;
In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them—in the old and young, 
Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at
 last, 
Behold the mighty bivouac-field, and waiting-camp of all, 
Of corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and generals all, 
And of each of us, O soldiers, and...Read more of this...



by Wilde, Oscar
...ow bare,
For it knows nothing of great pageantry,
Only a few narcissi here and there
Stand separate in sweet austerity,
Dotting the unmown grass with silver stars,
And here and there a daffodil waves tiny scimitars.

Hither the billow brought him, and was glad
Of such dear servitude, and where the land
Was virgin of all waters laid the lad
Upon the golden margent of the strand,
And like a lingering lover oft returned
To kiss those pallid limbs which once with intense fire...Read more of this...

by McGonagall, William Topaz
...othing could it surpass;
It was dammed up by a wall of corpses in a confused mass;
And the charred bodies could be seen dotting the burning debris,
While the flames and sparks ascended with a terrific hiss. 

The pillaging of the houses in Johnstown is fearful to describe,
By the Hungarians and ghouls, and woe betide
Any person or party that interfered with them,
Because they were mad with drink, and yelling like tigers in a den. 

And many were to be seen engaged in ...Read more of this...

by Arnold, Matthew
...Yes! in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.

But when the moon their hollows lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds ...Read more of this...

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