Famous Formally Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Formally poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous formally poems. These examples illustrate what a famous formally poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Gregory, Rg
...coin
for spending in the health shops
sickness was a swallowed laughter
human richness not to be denied
shaw was a man formally dressed
jung a deer with its horns folded
both wrestling with enigmas of
the knotted cell craving for eden
(matings of serpents and apples)
one's wit was in his brain-box
the other's limpid as a crystal ball
they took the ins and outs of life
strove to prime mortality afresh
beyond behaviour - scraped clay
to let creation loose in its re-phrasing...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
...tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold;
Parceling out with care—And then, to prevent all cavil,
His name to his testament formally signs.
But I, my life surveying,
With nothing to show, to devise, from its idle years,
Nor houses, nor lands—nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
Only these Souvenirs of Democracy—In them—in all my songs—behind me
leaving,
To You, who ever you are, (bathing, leavening this leaf especially with my
breath—pressing
on it a moment with...Read more of this...
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