Famous Garnering Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Song III: It Grew Up Without Heeding

by William Morris
 Love is enough: it grew up without heeding
In the days when ye knew not its name nor its measure,
And its leaflets untrodden by the light feet of pleasure
Had no boast of the blossom, no sign of the seeding,
As the morning and evening passed over its treasure. 

And what do ye say then?--That Spring long departed
Has brought forth no child...Read more of this...

The Unconquered Dead

by John McCrae
 ". . . defeated, with great loss."



Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame
Of them that flee, of them that basely yield;
Nor ours the shout of victory, the fame
Of them that vanquish in a stricken field.

That day of battle in the dusty heat
We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing
Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat,
And we the...Read more of this...

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