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Famous Fattening Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...sense in odours; stirred by the air
  That freshened from the window, these ascended                          90
  In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
  Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
  Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
  Huge sea-wood fed with copper
  Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
  In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
  Above the antique mantel was displayed
  As though a window gave upon the sylvan sc...Read more of this...



by Muir, Edwin
...The rivulet-loving wanderer Abraham
Through waterless wastes tracing his fields of pasture
Led his Chaldean herds and fattening flocks
With the meandering art of wavering water
That seeks and finds, yet does not know its way.
He came, rested and prospered, and went on,
Scattering behind him little pastoral kingdoms,
And over each one its own particular sky,
Not the great rounded sky through which he journeyed,
That went with him but when he rested changed.
His mind ...Read more of this...

by Heaney, Seamus
...l jampotfuls of the jellied
Specks to range on window-sills at home,
On shelves at school, and wait and watch until
The fattening dots burst into nimble-
Swimming tadpoles. Miss Walls would tell us how
The daddy frog was called a bullfrog
And how he croaked and how the mammy frog
Laid hundreds of little eggs and this was
Frogspawn. You could tell the weather by frogs too
For they were yellow in the sun and brown
In rain.
 Then one hot day when fields were rank
Wit...Read more of this...

by Lawson, Henry
...d sends for answer the rain, the rain, 
And away on the western lease, 
The limitless plain grows green again, 
And the fattening stock increase. 
We'll lock your rivers, my land, my land, 
Dig lakes on the furthest run – 
While down in the corners where houses stand, 
They drivel, "Australia's done!" 

The parasites dine at your tables spread 
(As my enemies did at mine), 
And they croak and gurgle, "Australia's dead" 
While they guzzle Australian wine. 
But we heed ...Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...on my body like armour riveted fast,
For Remembrance, lifting her leanness, keened in the gates of my heart.

Till, fattening the winds of the morning, an odour of new-mown hay
Came, and my forehead fell low, and my tears like berries fell down;
Later a sound came, half lost in the sound of a shore far away,
From the great grass-barnacle calling, and later the shore-weeds brown.

If I were as I once was, the strong hoofs crushing the sand and the shells,
Coming out of...Read more of this...



by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...oubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended 
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Phi...Read more of this...

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