Famous Extract Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Fruit of the Flower

...rt
That all my songs should be
Of love and lovers, broken heart,
And wild sweet agony?

Who plants a seed begets a bud,
Extract of that same root;
Why marvel at the hectic blood
That flushes this wild fruit?...Read more of this...
by Cullen, Countee


Indications The

...settles justice, reality, immortality, 
His insight and power encircle things and the human race, 
He is the glory and extract thus far, of things, and of the human race. 

The singers do not beget—only the POET begets; 
The singers are welcom’d, understood, appear often enough—but rare has the day
 been,
 likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
(Not every century, or every five centuries, has contain’d such a day, for all its
 names.)


The sing...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Leave Me My Blamer XIII

...ithin me 
And I like to bring him out of 
His prison and carry him on the 
Palm of my hand to examine him 
In depth and extract his secret. 
Aim not your arrows at him, lest 
He takes fright and vanish 'ere he 
Pours the secrets blood as a 
Sacrifice at the altar of his 
Own faith, given him by Deity 
When he fashioned him of love and beauty. 


The sun is rising and the nightingale 
Is singing, and the myrtle is 
Breathing its fragrance into space. 
I want to free myself fro...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil

Niobe in Distress

...l-made leg begins to be,
And the soft sinews form the supple knee,
The youth sore wounded by the Delian god
Attempts t' extract the crime-avenging rod,
But, whilst he strives the will of fate t' avert,
Divine Apollo sends a second dart;
Swift thro' his throat the feather'd mischief flies,
Bereft of sense, he drops his head, and dies.

Young Ilioneus, the last, directs his pray'r,
And cries, "My life, ye gods celestial! spare."
Apollo heard, and pity touch'd his heart,
But ah!...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis

Poetical Essay

...Extract from Poetical Essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Millions to fight compell'd, to fight or die
In mangled heaps on War's red altar lie . . . 
When the legal murders swell the lists of pride;
When glory's views the titled idiot guide


Lost Shelley poem found after 200 years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2267433,00.html...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe


Popularity

...eze
And clarify,---refine to proof
The liquor filtered by degrees,
While the world stands aloof.

XII.

And there's the extract, flasked and fine,
And priced and saleable at last! 
And Hobbs, Nobbs, Stokes and Nokes combine
To paint the future from the past, 
Put blue into their line.

XIII.

Hobbs hints blue,---Straight he turtle eats:
Nobbs prints blue,---claret crowns his cup: 
Nokes outdares Stokes in azure feats,---
Both gorge. Who fished the murex up?
What porridge had ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Song of Myself

...I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

20
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; 
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat? 

What is a man, anyhow? What am I? What are you? 

All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own; 
Else it were time lost listening to me.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, 
That months are vacuums, and the ground but wallow and filth; 
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Sonnet to Ingratitude

...f vulgar pride, the idiot's scorn;
Neglected Love, false Friendship's treach'rous sound; 

I could, with patient smile, extract the dart 
Base calumny had planted in my heart; 
The fangs of envy; agonizing pain; 
ALL, ALL, nor should my steady soul complain: 

E'en had relentless FATE, with cruel pow'r,
Darken'd the sunshine of each youthful day;
While from my path she snatch'd each transient flow'r.
Not one soft sigh my sorrow should betray;
But where INGRATITUDE'S fell pois...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

The Black Sheep

...ristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way
into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." -- Extract.

 Hark to the ewe that bore him:
 "What has muddied the strain?
 Never his brothers before him
 Showed the hint of a stain."
 Hark to the tups and wethers;
 Hark to the old gray ram:
 "We're all of us white, but he's black as night,
 And he'll never be worth a damn."

I'm up on the bally wood-pile at the back of the barracks yard;
"A damned disgrace...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Hammers

...Bouquet de la Reine', what do you think?
Not the same receipt?
Now, Martin, put away your conceit.
Who will ever know?
`Extract of Nobility' -- excellent, since most of them are killed."
"But, Monsieur Antoine --"
"You are self-willed,
Martin. You need a salve
For your conscience, do you?
Very well, we'll halve
The compliments, also the pastes and dentifrices;
Send some to the Kings, and some to the Empresses.
`Oil of Bitter Almonds' -- the Empress Josephine can have that.
`O...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Sinner

...
There the circumference earth is, heav'n the centre.
In so much dregs the quintessence is small: 
The spirit and good extract of my heart
Comes to about the many hundredth part.
Yet Lord restore thine image, hear my call: 
And though my hard heart scarce to thee can groan, 
Remember that thou once didst write in stone....Read more of this...
by Herbert, George

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