Famous Encyclopedia Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Encyclopedia poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous encyclopedia poems. These examples illustrate what a famous encyclopedia poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Masters, Edgar Lee
...et at the start there was a clear vision,
A high and urgent purpose in my soul
Which drove me on trying to memorize
The Encyclopedia Britannica!...Read more of this...
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Kay, Jackie
...other. She remembers how I read her
All those newspaper and magazine
Cuttings about adoption
She says her head's an encyclopedia
Of sob stories: the ones that were never
Told and committed suicide on their wedding nights
I always believed in the telling anyhow
You can't keep something like that secret
I wanted her to think of her other mother
Out there thinking that child I had will be
Eight today nine today all the way up to
God knows when. I told my daughter;
I bet...Read more of this...
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Jonson, Ben
...XLIII. ? TO luminarium.org/encyclopedia/cecil.htm" target="_blank">ROBERT EARL OF SALISBURY. What need hast thou of me, or of my muse, Whose actions so themselves do celebrate ? Which should thy country's love to speak refuse, Her foes enough would fame thee in their hate. Tofore, great men were glad of poets ; now, I, not the ...Read more of this...
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Jonson, Ben
...LXIII. — TO luminarium.org/encyclopedia/cecil.htm" target="_blank">ROBERT EARL OF SALISBURY. Who can consider thy right courses run, With what thy virtue on the times hath won, And not thy fortune ? who can clearly see The judgment of the king so shine in thee ; And that thou seek'st reward of thy each act, Not from the public voice, but private f...Read more of this...
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Jonson, Ben
... — TO THE SAME, UPON THE ACCESSION OF THE TREASURERSHIP TO HIM. [luminarium.org/encyclopedia/cecil.htm" target="_blank">ROBERT CECIL, EARL OF SALISBURY] Not glad, like those that have new hopes, or suits, With thy new place, bring I these early fruits Of love, and, what the golden age did hold A treasure, art ; contemn'd in the age of gold. Nor glad as those, that old dependents be, To see thy father's r...Read more of this...
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