Famous Gratuitous Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Gratuitous poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous gratuitous poems. These examples illustrate what a famous gratuitous poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...the darkness and discomfiture
Of his oblique rebuff, that finally
My silence honored his, holding itself
Away from a gratuitous intrusion
That likely would have widened a new distance
Already wide enough, if not so new.
But there are seeming parallels in space
That may converge in time; and so it was
I walked with Avon, fought and pondered with him,
While he made out a case for So-and-so,
Or slaughtered What’s-his-name in his old way,
With a new difference. N...Read more of this...
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