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Famous First Chapter Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Wilderness

...f herring … I blew waterspouts with porpoises … before land was … before the water went down … before Noah … before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me … clambering-clawed … dog-faced … yawping a galoot’s hunger … hairy under the armpits … here are the hawk-eyed hankering men … here are the blond and blue-eyed women … here they hide curled asleep waiting … ready to snarl and kill … ready to sing and give milk … waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderne...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl

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