Famous Feted Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Feted poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous feted poems. These examples illustrate what a famous feted poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Gregory, Rg
...nd again
it's the winners who fall in the bog
to win is to be preened - conceit
finds a little fluffy nest dear
to the feted heart and swells there
fed (for a foetal space) on all
the praisiest worms but in the nest
is a bloated thing that sucks (and chokes)
on hurt that has the knack of pecking
where there's malice - it grows two heads
winners by their nature soon become
winged and weighted - icarus begins
to prey upon their waking dreams
prometheus gnawed by eagles
th...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...hay meled of muchquat til mydmorn paste,
And ay the lady let lyk as hym loued mych;
The freke ferde with defence, and feted ful fayre--
"Thaygh I were burde bryyghtest," the burde in mynde hade.
The lasse luf in his lode for lur that he soyght
boute hone,
The dunte that schulde hym deue,
And nedez hit most be done.
The lady thenn spek of leue,
He granted hir ful sone.
Thenne ho gef hym god day, and wyth a glent layghed,
And as ho stod, ho stonyed hym wy...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
...tory’s dazzle,
Or that thou sat’st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia, swarm’d upon,
Who walk’d with kings with even pace the round world’s promenade;
But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings,
Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio’s, Indiana’s millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace th...Read more of this...
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