Famous Gland Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Death-Bed

...1918
This is the State above the Law.
 The State exists for the State alone."
[This is a gland at the back of the jaw,
 And an answering lump by the collar-bone.],


Some die shouting in gas or fire;
 Some die silent, by shell and shot.
Some die desperate, caught on the wire -
 Some die suddenly. This will not.


"Regis suprema voluntas Lex"
[It will follow the regular course of--throats.]
Some die pinned by the broken decks,
 Some die sobbing b...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard


From Loves First Fever To Her Plague

...ting.

The body prospered, teeth in the marrowed gums,
The growing bones, the rumour of the manseed
Within the hallowed gland, blood blessed the heart,
And the four winds, that had long blown as one,
Shone in my ears the light of sound,
Called in my eyes the sound of light.
And yellow was the multiplying sand,
Each golden grain spat life into its fellow,
Green was the singing house.

The plum my mother picked matured slowly,
The boy she dropped from darkness at her side
Into ...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan

Green Thumb

...ot shake, Green Thumb, as once you did 
My heart and liver, or my prostate bid 
Good Morning to -- leave it, the savage gland 
Content within the mercy of my hand. 

The world was safe in winter, I was spring, 
Enslaved and rattling to the slightest thing 
That she might give. If planter were my trade 
Why was I then not like a planter made: 
With veins like rivers, smudge-pots for a soul, 
A simple mind geared to a simple goal? 
You fashioned me, great headed and obscene 
On...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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