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Famous Establishing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Clampitt, Amy
...ined
attitudes, stoutly
follows her routine,
mining the mountainsides
of our daily refuse

for artifacts: subversive
re-establishing
with each arcane
trash-basket dig
the pleasures of the ruined....Read more of this...



by McGonagall, William Topaz
...g be enjoyed 

Now since Miss Baxter has lived to see it erected,
I hope by the students she will long be respected
For establishing a College in Bonnie Dundee,
Where learning can be got of a very high degree. 

"My son, get knowledge," so said the sage,
For it will benefit you in your old age,
And help you through this busy world to pass,
For remember a man without knowledge is just like an ass. 

I wish the Professors and teachers every success,
Hoping the Lord will...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...an that he shall sit with folded hands
Against the Coming. If I be anything, 
I move a driven agent among my kind, 
Establishing by the faith of Abraham, 
And by the grace of their necessities, 
The clamoring word that is the word of life
Nearer than heretofore to the solution 
Of their tomb-serving doubts. If I have loosed 
A shaft of language that has flown sometimes 
A little higher than the hearts and heads 
Of nature’s minions, it will yet be heard,
Like a new so...Read more of this...

by Lawrence, D. H.
...tle keystone.

It needed Pythagoras to see life playing with counters on the living back
Of the baby tortoise;
Life establishing the first eternal mathematical tablet,
Not in stone, like the Judean Lord, or bronze, but in life-clouded, life-rosy tortoise shell.

The first little mathematical gentleman
Stepping, wee mite, in his loose trousers
Under all the eternal dome of mathematical law.

Fives, and tens,
Threes and fours and twelves,
All the volte face of decim...Read more of this...

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