Famous Fixing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Ramble in St. Jamess Park

...ppetite,
That could in whiffling fools delight,
Beget such frenzies in your mind
You may go mad for the north wind,
And fixing all your hopes upon't
To have him bluster in your ****,
Turn up your longing **** t' th' air
And perish in a wild despair!
But cowards shall forget to rant,
Schoolboys to frig, old whores to paint;
The Jesuits' fraternity
Shall leave the use of buggery;
Crab-louse, inspired with grace divine,
From earthly cod to heaven shall climb;
Physicians shall be...Read more of this...
by Wilmot, John


Albert Einstein To Archibald Macleish

...I should have been a plumber fixing drains.
And mending pure white bathtubs for the great Diogenes
(who scorned all lies, all liars, and all tyrannies),

And then, perhaps, he would bestow on me -- majesty!
(O modesty aside, forgive my fallen pride, O hidden
 majesty,
The lamp, the lantern, the lucid light he sought for 

 All too often -- sick humanity!)...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore

Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Coming Of Arthur

...s will beat his foemen down.' 

Thereat Leodogran rejoiced, but thought 
To sift his doubtings to the last, and asked, 
Fixing full eyes of question on her face, 
`The swallow and the swift are near akin, 
But thou art closer to this noble prince, 
Being his own dear sister;' and she said, 
`Daughter of Gorlos and Ygerne am I;' 
`And therefore Arthur's sister?' asked the King. 
She answered, `These be secret things,' and signed 
To those two sons to pass, and let them be. 
An...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

All Things Will Die

...to ye,
The jaw is falling,
The red cheek paling,
The strong limbs failing;
Ice with the warm blood mixing;
The eyeballs fixing.
Nine times goes the passing bell:
Ye merry souls, farewell.
 The old earth
 Had a birth,
 As all men know,
 Long ago.
And the old earth must die.
So let the warm winds range,
And the blue wave beat the shore;
For even and morn
Ye will never see
Thro' eternity.
All things were born.
Ye will come never more,
For all things must die....Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Dark August

...thunder falls
like a crash of plates from the sky,

she does not come out.
Don't you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain ? But I am learning slowly

to love the dark days, the steaming hills,
the air with gossiping mosquitoes,
and to sip the medicine of bitterness,

so that when you emerge, my sister,
parting the beads of the rain,
with your forehead of flowers and eyes of forgiveness,

all with not be as it was, but it will be true
(you see they will not let m...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek


Here Died

...e choosing their Battery Hill. 
They run the tapes on the flats and fells by roads that the guns might sweep, 
They are fixing in memory obstacles where the firing lines shall creep. 

They read and they study the gunnery - they ask till the meaning's plain, 
But the craft of the scout is a simple thing to the young Australian brain. 
They blaze the track for a forward run, where the scrub is everywhere, 
And they mark positions for every gun and every unit there. 

They trac...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

Lara

...that chilling mystery of mien, 
And seeming gladness to remain unseen, 
He had (if 'twere not nature's boon) an art 
Of fixing memory on another's heart: 
It was not love, perchance — nor hate — nor aught 
That words can image to express the thought; 
But they who saw him did not see in vain, 
And once beheld, would ask of him again: 
And those to whom he spake remember'd well, 
And on the words, however light, would dwell. 
None knew nor how, nor why, but he entwined 
Himsel...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Proud and Beautiful

...AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call proud and beautiful,
After the shops and fingers have worn out all they have and know and can hope to have and know for the sake of making you what the people on the streets call proud and beautiful,
After there is absolutely nothing more to be done for the sake of staging you as a great enigmatic b...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

The Fury Of Sundays

...ke a bath in jello. 
You and me sipping vodka and soda, 
ice cubes melting like the Virgin Mary. 
You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, 
all htis leprous day and then more vodka, 
more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, 
the pond sucking out the throb. 
Our bodies were trash. 
We leave them on the shore. 
I and thou and she 
swin like minnows, 
losing all our queens and kinds, 
losing our hells and our tongues, 
cool, cool, all day that Sunday in July 
when we were ...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Idea of Order at Key West

...fishing boats at anchor there,
As night descended, tilting in the air,
Mastered the night and portioned out the sea,
Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles,
Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.

Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker's rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds....Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

The Shadow

...e room. He ended
Screwing the little rubies in,
Setting the wheels to lock and spin,
Curling the infinitesimal springs,
Fixing the filigree hands. Chippings
Of precious stones lay strewn about.
The table before him was a rout
Of splashes and sparks of coloured light.
There was yellow gold in sheets, and quite
A heap of emeralds, and steel.
Here was a gem, there was a wheel.
And glasses lay like limpid lakes
Shining and still, and there were flakes
Of silver, and shavings of p...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Task: Book IV The Winter Evening (excerpts)

...d hours
Of social converse and instructive ease,
And gath'ring, at short notice, in one group
The family dispers'd, and fixing thought,
Not less dispers'd by day-light and its cares.
I crown thee king of intimate delights,
Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness,
And all the comforts that the lowly roof
Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours
Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.
No rattling wheels stop short before these gates;
No powder'd pert proficient in the art
Of sou...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

The Three Voices

...ced the mark. 

She felt that her defeat was plain,
Yet madly strove with might and main
To get the upper hand again. 

Fixing her eyes upon the beach,
As though unconscious of his speech,
She said "Each gives to more than each." 

He could not answer yea or nay:
He faltered "Gifts may pass away."
Yet knew not what he meant to say. 

"If that be so," she straight replied,
"Each heart with each doth coincide.
What boots it? For the world is wide." 

"The world is but a Thought...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

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