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Famous Greenhorn Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Greenhorn Quotes

The Queens Complaint

by Plath, Sylvia

...he sent out
To summon in her slight all doughty men
Whose force might fit
Shape of her sleep, her thought-
None of that greenhorn lot matched her bright crown.

So she is come to this rare pass
Whereby she treks in blood through sun and squall
And sings you thus :
'How sad, alas, it is
To see my people shrunk so small, so small.'...Read more of this...

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