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Famous Dry Rot Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...cubs—to-morrow belongs to you.

The peace of great loves be for you.
Rain, soak these roots; wind, shatter the dry rot.
Bars of sunlight, grips of the earth, hug these.

The peace of great ghosts be for you,
Phantoms of night-gray eyes, ready to go
To the fog-star dumps, to the fire-white doors.

Yes, the peace of great phantoms be for you,
Phantom iron men, mothers of bronze,
Keepers of the lean clean breeds....Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...I. THE FLOWER'S NAME

Here's the garden she walked across,
Arm in my arm, such a short while since:
Hark, now I push its wicket, the moss
Hinders the hinges and makes them wince!
She must have reached this shrub ere she turned,
As back with that murmur the wicket swung;
For she laid the poor snail, my chance foot spurned,
To feed and forget it the leav...Read more of this...

by Gregory, Rg
...r much whispering one
was pushed forward
to throw the blazing door wide

inside was black (dread black)
with a smell of
dry rot to fetch up old ghosts

the delegates trampled
each other down
in their haste to be first out

not one of them sensing
at the back of
the third shelf down from the top

a small figure sucking
its thumb - rocking
(shocked) to and fro like a cradle

next day the whole house-front
was found done up
in the brightest of colours...Read more of this...

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