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Famous From Day One Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Bell horses, bell horses, what time of day?One o'clock, two o'clock, three and away....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother



...In love's dances, in love's dances
One retreats and one advances,
One grows warmer and one colder,
One more hesitant, one bolder.
One gives what the other needed
Once, or will need, now unheeded.
One is clenched, compact, ingrowing
While the other's melting, flowing.
One is smiling and concealing
While the other's asking kneeling.
One is arguing or sleepin...Read more of this...
by Tessimond, A S J
...CLORIS, it is not thy disdaine 
 Can ever cover with dispaire 
 Or in cold ashes hide that care 
Which I have fedd with soe long paine, 
I may perhaps myne eyes refraine 5 
And fruiteless wordes noe more impart, 
But yet still serve, still serve thee in my hearte. 

What though I spend my haplesse dayes 
 In finding entertainements out, 
 Carelesse of what...Read more of this...
by Godolphin, Sidney
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 ("Charle! ô mon fils!") 
 
 {March, 1871.} 


 Charles, Charles, my son! hast thou, then, quitted me? 
 Must all fade, naught endure? 
 Hast vanished in that radiance, clear for thee, 
 But still for us obscure? 
 
 My sunset lingers, boy, thy morn declines! 
 Sweet mutual love we've known; 
 For man, alas! plans, dreams, and smiling t...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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