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Famous Hamburg Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...and the words printed on it. 
No, I was never rid of him—not quite;
Although on shipboard, on my way from here 
To Hamburg, I believe that I forgot him. 
But once ashore, I should have been half ready 
To meet him there, risen up out of the ground, 
With hoofs and horns and tail and everything.
Believe me, there was nothing right about him, 
Though it was not in Hamburg that I found him. 
Later, in Rome, it was we found each other, 
For the first time since w...Read more of this...



by Levine, Philip
...nknown life in Sweden, 
a life which failed, of how 
he'd gone alone to Copenhagen, 
Bremen, where he'd loaded trains, 
Hamburg, Munich, and finally 
-- sick and weary -- he'd returned 
to us. He slept in a corner 
of the living room for days, 
and woke gaunt and quiet, 
still only seventeen, his face 
in its own shadows. I thought 
of my father on the run 
from an older war, and wondered 
had he passed through Amsterdam, 
had he stood, as I did now, 
gazing up at the...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
..., my tabby cat
 And it was stoney dead;
I diagnosed with weeping that
 On strychnine it had fed.

And so I bought a hamburg steak,
 Primed it with powdered glass,
And left it for her dog to take
 With gulping from the grass:
Since then, although I lie awake
 I have not seen it pass.

Well, that's the scoring up to date:
 And as I read a text
From Job to justify my hate
 I wonder who'll be next?
Somehow I feel that one must die,
 Ma Green or I....Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...-faced and hale, though turned his sixtieth year,
Returning after having sold a ship-load
Of cattle in the German city, Hamburg.
He brought me to Spoon River and we lived here
For twenty years -- they thought that we were married!
This oak tree near me is the favorite haunt
Of blue jays chattering, chattering all the day.
And why not? for my very dust is laughing
For thinking of the humorous thing called life....Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...t; 
Wait, swift and swarthy, in the ports of Australia;
Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux,
 the
 Hague, Copenhagen; 
Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama; 
Wait at their moorings at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
 Galveston,
 San
 Francisco. 

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I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth; 
I see them welding State to State, city to city, through North America;
I see them in Great Br...Read more of this...



by Sexton, Anne
...out a shadow where I could sleep
but today a coffin for the madonna and child,
today two women in baby clothes will be hamburg.
With a tongue like a razor he will kiss,
the mother, the child,
and we three will color the stars black
in memory of his mother
who kept him chained to the food tree
or turned him on and off like a water faucet
and made women through all these hazy years
the enemy with a heart of lies.
Tonight all the red dogs lie down in fear
and the wife a...Read more of this...

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