Famous Gr Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Le Verbe ?tre

...Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes. Le d?sespoir n'a pas d'ailes, il ne
se tient pas n?cessairement ? une table desservie sur une terrasse, le soir, au bord de
la mer. C'est le d?sespoir et ce n'est pas le retour d'une quantit? de petits faits
comme des graines qui quittent ? la nuit tombante un sillon pour un autre. Ce n'est pas
la mousse sur une pierre ou le verre ? boire. C'...Read more of this...
by Breton, Andre


Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister

...I.

Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Water your damned flower-pots, do!
If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God's blood, would not mine kill you!
What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming?
Oh, that rose has prior claims---
Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?
Hell dry you up with its flames!

II.

At the meal we sit together:
_Salve tibi!_ I must hear
W...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Woodlark

...dio-weedio: there again! 
So tiny a trickle of s?ng-strain; 
And all round not to be found
For brier, bough, furrow, or gr?en ground 
Before or behind or far or at hand 
Either left either right 
Anywhere in the s?nlight. 
Well, after all! Ah but hark—
‘I am the little w?odlark.
. . . . . . . . 
To-day the sky is two and two 
With white strokes and strains of the blue
. . . . . . . . 
Round a ring, around a ring 
And while I sail (must listen) I sing
. . . . . . . .
The skyla...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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