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Famous Elopement Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...s down below 
At the inner yard, and away we'll go. 
Will you come, my girl?" "I will, you bet; 
We'll manage this here elopement yet." 

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By the winding Wollondilly stands the hut of Ringer Jim. 
And his loving little Meely makes a perfect god of him. 
He has stalwart sons and daughters, and, I think, before he's done, 
There'll be numerous "Six-fortys" taken on Mylora Run....Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...y lover,
floats airily out of my hands
and I dance slower,
pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
and holding them, clicking them
in thumb and forefinger,
the indent of twenty-five years,
like a tiny rip of a tiny earthquake.
Underneath the soil lies the violence,
the shift, the crack of continents,
the anger,
and above only a cut,
a half-inch space to stick a pencil in.

The finger is scared
but it keeps its long numb place.
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by Sexton, Anne

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