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Famous Goner Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...him
 And the fool killers had a laugh
 And the necktie party was a go, by God.
They laid hands on him and he was a goner.
 They hammered him to pieces and he stood up.
They buried him and he walked out of the grave, by God,
 Asking again: Where did that blood come from?...Read more of this...



by Sandburg, Carl
...INTO the blue river hills
The red sun runners go
And the long sand changes
And to-day is a goner
And to-day is not worth haggling over.

 Here in Omaha
 The gloaming is bitter
 As in Chicago
 Or Kenosha.

The long sand changes.
To-day is a goner.
Time knocks in another brass nail.
Another yellow plunger shoots the dark.

 Constellations
 Wheeling over Omaha
 As in Chicago
 Or Kenosha.

The long sand is gone
 and all the...Read more of this...

by Arnold, Matthew
...any hour;
Now seldom come I, since I came with him.
That single elm-tree bright
Against the west--I miss it! is it goner?
We prized it dearly; while it stood, we said,
Our friend, the Gipsy-Scholar, was not dead;
While the tree lived, he in these fields lived on.

Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here,
But once I knew each field, each flower, each stick;
And with the country-folk acquaintance made
By barn in threshing-time, by new-built rick.
Here, too, our...Read more of this...

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