Famous Fide Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Fide poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous fide poems. These examples illustrate what a famous fide poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Lindley, John
...ing Uncle Tom
for your nickels and your dimes.
I’m the Alabami Mammy
for a state I’ve never seen.
I’m the bona fide Minstrel Man
whose blackface won’t wash clean.
I’m the banjo playing Sambo
with a fixed and manic grin.
I’m the South’s defiant answer
that the Yankees didn’t win.
I’m the inconvenient nigrah
that no one can let go.
I’m the cutesy picaninny
with my hair tied up in bows.
I’m the funny little shoeshine boy.
I’m the convict on t...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...so ospizio»,
disse Min?s a me quando mi vide,
lasciando l'atto di cotanto offizio,
«guarda com'entri e di cui tu ti fide;
non t'inganni l'ampiezza de l'intrare!».
E 'l duca mio a lui: «Perch? pur gride?
Non impedir lo suo fatale andare:
vuolsi cos? col? dove si puote
ci? che si vuole, e pi? non dimandare».
Or incomincian le dolenti note
a farmisi sentire; or son venuto
l? dove molto pianto mi percuote.
Io venni in loco d'ogne luce muto,
che mugghi...Read more of this...
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Betjeman, John
...l alone,
And from Greenford scent of mayfields
Most enticingly was blown
Over market gardens tidy,
Taverns for the bona fide,
Cockney singers, cockney shooters,
Murray Poshes, Lupin Pooters,
Long in Kelsal Green and Highgate silent under soot and stone....Read more of this...
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Sassoon, Siegfried
...
Who always must be firing at the Boche front line.
. . . .
‘Old soldiers never die; they simply fide a-why!’
That’s what they used to sing along the roads last spring;
That’s what they used to say before the push began;
That’s where they are to-day, knocked over to a man....Read more of this...
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