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Famous Griffith Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...e Villa men buried him in a pit
With twenty Carranzistas.

There is drama in that point…
…the boy and the pigs.
Griffith would make a movie of it to fetch sobs.
Victor Herbert would have the drums whirr
In a weave with a high fiddle-string’s single clamor.

“And the muchacho sat there all day throwing stones
To keep the pigs away,” wrote Gibbons to the Tribune.

Somewhere in Chihuahua or Colorado
Is a leather bag of poems and short stories....Read more of this...



by Yeats, William Butler
...e images of thirty years:
An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;
Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars,
Guarded; Griffith staring in hysterical pride;
Kevin O'Higgins' countenance that wears
A gentle questioning look that cannot hide
A soul incapable of remorse or rest;
A revolutionary soldier kneeling to be blessed;

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An Abbot or Archbishop with an upraised hand
Blessing the Tricolour. 'This is not,' I say,
'The dead Ireland of my youth, but an Ireland
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