Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Handshakes Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

by Sandburg, Carl
...f legs and one voice standing up and yelling hurrah.

I see the driver of Alix and the owner smothered in a fury of handshakes, a mob of caresses. I see the wives of the driver and owner smothered in a crush of white summer dresses and parasols.

Hours later, at sundown, gray dew creeping on the sod and sheds, I see Alix again:
 Dark, shining-velvet Alix,
 Night-sky Alix in a gray blanket,
 Led back and forth by a ******.
 Velvet and night-eyed Alix
 With slim...Read more of this...



by Desnos, Robert
...and the stars the song of a rooster
from 2000 years ago and piercing screams in a flaming park and kisses.
Sinister handshakes in a sickly light and axles grinding on paralyzing roads.
No doubt there is you who I do not know, who on the contrary I do know.
But who, here in my dreams, demands to be felt without ever appearing.
You who remain out of reach in reality and in dream.
You who belong to me through my will to possess your illusion
but who brings yo...Read more of this...

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Handshakes poems.


Book: Shattered Sighs