Famous Façade Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Are You the New person drawn toward Me?

by Walt Whitman
 ARE you the new person drawn toward me? 
To begin with, take warning—I am surely far different from what you suppose; 
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? 
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? 
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty...Read more of this...

Four Quartets 2: East Coker

by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and...Read more of this...

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