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Famous Fattened Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Clampitt, Amy
...e pailful, just slightly
fatigued by the plane trip from Hawaii, are
disposed on the sidewalks; alstroemerias, freesias
fattened a bit in translation from overseas; gladioli
likewise estranged from their piercing ancestral crimson;
as well as, less altered from the original blue cornflower
of the roadsides and railway embankments of Europe, these
bachelor's buttons. But it isn't the railway embankments
their featherweight wheels of cobalt remind me of, it's

a row of them...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...he man!” 

He was. And even though the creature spoiled 
All prophecies, I cherish his acclaim. 
Three weeks he fattened; and five years he toiled 
In Yonkers,—and then sauntered into fame. 

And he may go now to what streets he will— 
Eleventh, or the last, and little care; 
But he would find the old room very still 
Of evenings, and the ghosts would all be there. 

I doubt if he goes after them; I doubt 
If many of them ever come to him.
His memories are...Read more of this...

by Benet, Stephen Vincent
...vant, 
Gallant where wines are poured; 
Love is a bitter master, 
Love is an iron lord. 

"Satin ease of the body, 
Fattened sloth of the hands, 
These and their like he will not send, 
Only immortal fires to rend -- 
And the world's end is your journey's end, 
And your stream chokes in the sands. 

"Pleached calms shall not await you, 
Peace you shall never find; 
Nought but the living moorland 
Scourged naked by the wind. 

"Nought but the living moorland, 
And ...Read more of this...

by Scott, Sir Walter
...l we now?  See, rudely swell
     Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell.
     Ask we this savage hill we tread
     For fattened steer or household bread,
     Ask we for flocks these shingles dry,
     And well the mountain might reply,—
     "To you, as to your sires of yore,
     Belong the target and claymore!
     I give you shelter in my breast,
     Your own good blades must win the rest."
     Pent in this fortress of the North,
     Think'st thou we will not ...Read more of this...

by Dryden, John
...rate thy sound from thy corrupted part? 
I called thee Nile; the parallel will stand: 
Thy tides of wealth o'erflow the fattened land; 
Yet monsters from thy large increase we find 
Engendered on the slime thou leavest behind. 
Sedition has not wholly seized on thee, 
Thy nobler parts are from infection free. 
Of Israel's tribes thou hast a numerous band, 
But still the Canaanite is in the land. 
Thy military chiefs are brave and true, 
Nor are thy disenchanted bu...Read more of this...



by Tebb, Barry
...est.



III

One stifling July day thirty years on we returned to Honley

Where the hamlet snagged on the hillside, fattened now and hollow

And grown grey with money and success: one cottage joined on

To the next, the common land fenced off, the nearby chapel

Turned to a desirable residence, the tombstones garden ornaments,

The heart of Hall Ings Mill crumpled under mechanical hammers

And reeled before our eyes, dust rising to powder the wings

Of passing butterflies...Read more of this...

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