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Famous Gauging Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ants must have worked,

loosening the dirt, the muffled
ring of pick-ends against
the castle stone. The Duenna,
one eye gauging the drugged girl's
sleep, each night handing over
another light parcel, another
small body vanished
through the mouth of a hole.

Once you were a daughter, too,
then a wife and now the mother
of a baby with a Spanish name.

Paloma, you call her, little dove;
she sleeps in a room beyond you.

Your husband, too, works late,
drinks too much at night, co...Read more of this...
by Belieu, Erin



...t's bred in the bone; 
Works it all out in her nut, 
Handles it all on her own. 

Backwards and forwards she'll track, 
Gauging the line at a glance, 
Keeping the stronger ones back, 
Giving the tailers a chance. 

Weary and hungry and lame, 
Sticking all day to her job, 
Thin as a rabbit, but game, 
Working in front of the mob. 

Tradesmen, I call 'em, the dogs, 
Those that'll work in a yard; 
Bark till they're hoarser than frogs, 
Makin' 'em savage and hard. 

Others will s...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...One Blessing had I than the rest
So larger to my Eyes
That I stopped gauging -- satisfied --
For this enchanted size --

It was the limit of my Dream --
The focus of my Prayer --
A perfect -- paralyzing Bliss --
Contented as Despair --

I knew no more of Want -- or Cold --
Phantasms both become
For this new Value in the Soul --
Supremest Earthly Sum --

The Heaven below the Heaven above --
Obscured with ruddier Blue --
Life's...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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