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Famous Get Behind Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...I can’t remember what angered me

About Geoffrey Hill, quite funny

In a nervous, melancholic way,

A mask you wouldn’t get behind.



Harrison and I were close for years

But it sort of faded when he wrote

He wanted to hear no more

Of my personal life.

I went to his reading in Galway

Where he walked in his cosy regalia

Crossed the length of the bar

To embrace me, manic about the necessity

Of doing big shows in the Balkans.

I taught him all he knows, says ...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...re, as a matter of course, 
Right in the front of the army. 

Old Lord Roberts will have to mind 
If ever the enemy get behind; 
For they'll smash him up with a rear attack, 
Because his army has got no back! 
Think of the horrors that might befall 
An army without any rear at all! 
Right in the front of the army, 
Battling day and night! 
Right in the front of the army, 
Teaching 'em how to fight! 
Swede attaches and German counts, 
Yeomen (known as De Wet's Remounts), 
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by Frost, Robert
...m pounding in the barn all night. 
But what he liked was someone to encourage. 
Them that he couldn't lead he'd get behind 
And drive, the way you can, you know, in mowing-- 
Keep at their heels and threaten to mow their legs off. 
I'd seen about enough of his bulling tricks 
(We call that bulling). I'd been watching him. 
So when he paired off with me in the hayfield 
To load the load, thinks I, Look out for trouble. 
I built the load and topped it of...Read more of this...

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