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Famous Enquiry Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Thus You've obey'd, you Winds, that must fulfill 
The Great disposer's Righteous Will: 
Thus did your Breath a strict Enquiry make, 
Thus did you our most secret Sins awake, 
And thus chastis'd their Ill. 


Whilst vainly Those, of a rapacious Mind, 
Fields to other Fields had laid, 
By Force, or by injurious Bargains join'd, 
With Fences for their Guard impenetrable made; 


The juster Tempest mocks the wrong, 
And sweeps, in its directed Flight, 
Th' Inclosures of another...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill



...cket crash. And I for a woman,
for her laces and silks, Maria Concepcion.
Ay, ay! Next thing I hear, some Commission of Enquiry
was being organized to conduct a big quiz,
with himself as chairman investigating himself.
Well, I knew damn well who the suckers would be,
not that shark in shark skin, but his pilot fish,
khaki-pants red ****** like you or me.
What worse, I fighting with Maria Concepcion,
plates flying and thing, so I swear: "Not again!"
It was mashing up my house ...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

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