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Famous Floodgate Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Perch-Fishing

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And sunlight blurred below; but sultry blue
Burned yet on the valley water where it hoards
Behind the miller's elmen floodgate boards,
And there the wasps, that lodge them ill-concealed
In the vole's empty house, still drove afield
To plunder touchwood from old crippled trees
And build their young ones their hutched nurseries;
Still creaked the grasshoppers' rasping unison
Nor had the whisper through the tansies run
Nor weather-wisest bird gone home.
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by Blunden, Edmund

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