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Famous Dur Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...un instant de puissance et de délire.”

Mais alors, vieux lubrique, à cet âge...
“Monsieur, le fait est dur.
Il est venu, nous peloter, un gros chien;
Moi j’avais peur, je l’ai quittée à mi-chemin.
C’est dommage.”
Mais alors, tu as ton vautour!

Va t’en te décrotter les rides du visage;
Tiens, ma fourchette, décrasse-toi le crâne.
De quel droit payes-tu des expériences comme moi?
Tiens, voilà dix sous, pour la salle-de-bains.

Phlébas, le P...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...
 ("Un soldat au dur visage.") 
 
 {CROMWELL, ACT I.} 


 "Hold, little blue-eyed page!" 
 So cried the watchers surly, 
 Stern to his pretty rage 
 And golden hair so curly— 
 "Methinks your satin cloak 
 Masks something bulky under; 
 I take this as no joke— 
 Oh, thief with stolen plunder!" 
 
 "I am of high repute, 
 And famed among the truthful: 
 Th...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...untains.

 My friend's place was a shack right beside a huge fire-

place where there had once been a great mansion during the

1920s, built by a famous movie actor. The mansion was built

before there was even a road down at Big Sur. The mansion

had been brought over the mountains on the backs of mules,

strung out like ants, bringing visions of the good life to the

poison oak, the ticks, and the salmon.

 The mansion was on a promontory, high over the Paci...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...ld

woman in the Pacific Northwest. She was in her nineties and

I worked for her on Saturdays and after school and duringthe

summer.

 Sometimes she would make me lunch, little egg sandwich-

es with the crusts cut off as if by a surgeon, and she'd give

me slices of banana dunked in mayonnaise.

 The old woman lived by herself in a house that was like a

twin sister to her. The house was four stories high and had

at least thirty rooms and the old lady was ...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...at Falls, Montana. I told Trout Fish-

ing in America about a winter I spent as a child in GreatFalls.

"It was during the war and I saw a Deanna Durbin movie seven

times, "I said.

 The baby put a blue rock in Trout Fishing in America's

shirt pocket and he said, "I've been to Great Falls many

times. I remember Indians and fur traders. I remember

Lewis and Clark, but I don't remember ever seeing a Deanna

Durbin movie in Great Falls."

 "I know wha...Read more of this...



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