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Famous Fall Out Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Wilmot, John
...More bitter railings, scandals, calumnies,
Than at a gossiping are thrown about
When the good wives get drunk, and then fall out.
None of that sensual tribe, whose talents lie
In avarice, pride, sloth, and gluttony.
Who hunt good livings; but abhor good lives,
Whose lust exalted, to that height arrives,
They act adultery with their own wives.
And ere a score of years completed be,
Can from the loftiest pulpit proudly see,
Half a large parish their own progeny....Read more of this...



by Sassoon, Siegfried
...cursed my raucous shout. 
Love chucked his lute away and dropped his crown. 
Rhyme got sore heels and wanted to fall out.
‘Left, right! Press on your butts!’ They looked at me 
Reproachful; how I longed to set them free! 

I gave them lectures on Defence, Attack; 
They fidgeted and shuffled, yawned and sighed, 
And boggled at my questions. Joy was slack,
And Wisdom gnawed his fingers, gloomy-eyed. 
Young Fancy—how I loved him all the while— 
Stared at his ...Read more of this...

by Sassoon, Siegfried
...e,
Warm and white with glaring shine, 
To watch the soldiers of the Line 
That life has hired to fight with fate. 

Fall out: the long parades are done. 
Up comes the dark; down goes the sun.
The square is walled with windowed light. 
Sleep well, you lusty Fusiliers; 
Shut your brave eyes on sense and sight, 
And banish from your dreamless ears 
The bugle’s dying notes that say,
‘Another night; another day.’...Read more of this...

by Hannah, Sophie
...hout resenting spring,

lives in a safe time frame,
gives up so much but knows he can reclaim

all titles that are his,
fall out for months and still be what he is.

I settle for less than snow:
high only once, then no way up from low,

then to be swept from drives.
Ten words I throw into your changing lives

fly like ten snowballs hurled:
I hope to be, and will, long for this world....Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...will prove
My speediest friend, by death to rid me hence,
The worst that he can give, to me the best.
Yet so it may fall out, because thir end
Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine
Draw thir own ruin who attempt the deed.

Chor: Oh how comely it is and how reviving
To the Spirits of just men long opprest!
When God into the hands of thir deliverer 
Puts invincible might
To quell the mighty of the Earth, th' oppressour,
The brute and boist'rous force of violent men
...Read more of this...



by Wilmot, John
...itter railings, scandals, Calumnies, 
Than at a Gossipping, are thrown about, 
When the good Wives, get drunk, and then fall out. 
None of that sensual Tribe, whose Tallents lye, 
In Avarice, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony. 
Who hunt good Livings, but abhor good Lives, 
Whose Lust exalted, to that height arrives, 
They act Adultery with their own Wives. 
And e're a score of Years compleated be, 
Can from the lofty Pulpit proudly see, 
Half a large Parish, their own Pr...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...stroked it o'er;
And the man stood by with a brooding eye, and gnashed his teeth and swore.

When thieves and thugs fall out and fight there's fell arrears to pay;
And soon or late sin meets its fate, and so it fell one day
That Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike fanged up like dogs at bay.

"The skin is mine, all mine," she cried; "I did the deed alone."
"It's share and share with a guilt-yoked pair", he hissed in a pregnant tone;
And so they snarled like malamute...Read more of this...

by Popa, Vasko
...Don't open the little box 
Heaven's hat will fall out of her 

Don't close her for any reason 
She'll bite the trouser-leg of eternity 

Don't drop her on the earth 
The sun's eggs will break inside her 

Don't throw her in the air 
Earth's bones will break inside her 

Don't hold her in your hands 
The dough of the stars will go sour inside her 

What are you doing for God's sake 
Don't let her get ou...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...know not why, 
And kissed again with tears. 
And blessings on the falling out 
That all the more endears, 
When we fall out with those we love 
And kiss again with tears! 
For when we came where lies the child 
We lost in other years, 
There above the little grave, 
O there above the little grave, 
We kissed again with tears....Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ut I know not why,
And kiss'd again with tears.
And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
For when we came where lies the child
We lost in other years,
There above the little grave,
O there above the little grave,
We kiss'd again with tears....Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...ce strife:
For she was fall'n asleep a little wight* *while
With John the clerk, that waked had all night:
And with the fall out of her sleep she braid*. *woke
"Help, holy cross of Bromeholm,"  she said;
"In manus tuas!  Lord, to thee I call.
Awake, Simon, the fiend is on me fall;
Mine heart is broken; help; I am but dead:
There li'th one on my womb and on mine head.
Help, Simkin, for these false clerks do fight"
This John start up as fast as e'er he might...Read more of this...

by Hecht, Anthony
...cells
Multiply crazily and storm around,
Out of control. The chemotherapy
Hasn't helped much, and it makes my hair fall out.
I know I look a sight, but I don't care.
I care about fewer things; I'm more selective.
It's got so I can't even bring myself
To read through any of your books these days.
It's partly weariness, and partly the fact
That I seem not to care much about the endings,
How things work out, or whether they even do.
What I do instead is ...Read more of this...

by Giovanni, Nikki
...When I Diewhen i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries  and if they cry i hope their eyes fall out  and a million maggots that had made up their brains  crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh  that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person  that i probably tried  to love      ...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...s.

Back of the clamps on a fireproof door they hold the papers of the Dead in a house here
And when two living men fall out, when one says the Dead spoke a Yes, and the other says the Dead spoke a No, they go then together to this house.

They loosen the clamps and haul at the hasps and try their keys and curse at the locks and the combination numbers.
For the teeth of the rats are barred and the tongues of the moths are outlawed and the sun and the air of wind i...Read more of this...

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