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Famous Engender Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...n o'er my shadow to spring!

 1827.*

"WHAT is science, rightly known?
'Tis the strength of life alone.
Life canst thou engender never,
Life must be life's parent ever.

 1827.*

It matters not, I ween,

Where worms our friends consume,
Beneath the turf so green,

Or 'neath a marble tomb.
Remember, ye who live,

Though frowns the fleeting day,
That to your friends ye give

What never will decay.

 1827.*...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang



...would howl.
He planted every deviltry to see it grow.
He wasted half his income on the lewd and the low.
He would trade engender for the red bar-tender,
He would homage render to the red bar-tender,
And in ultimate surrender to the red bar-tender,
He died of the tremens, as crazy as a loon,
And his friends were glad, when the end came soon.
There goes the hearse, the mourners cry,
The respectable hearse goes slowly by.
And now, good friends, since you see how it ends,
Let eac...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel
...eighbours' vote,
 Said the man in the golden breastplate
 Under the old stone Cross.

Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch;
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which,
 Said the man in the golden breastplate
 Under the old stone Cross.

But actors lacking music
Do most excite my spleen,
They say it is more human
To shuffle, grunt and groan,
Not knowing what unearthly stuff
Rounds a mighty sce...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler
...ame,
The victory, the splendour,
The sacred fountain that is whirled
From depths beyond that older world
A new world to engender. 

The kingdom is extended. Night
Dwells, and I contemplate the sight
That is not seeing, but the light
That secretly is kindled,
Though oft-time its most holy fire
Lacks oil, whene'er my own Desire
Before desire has dwindled. 

I see the thin web binding me
With thirteen cords of unity
Toward the calm centre of the sea.
(O thou supernal mother!)
Th...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister

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