Famous Hard Pressed Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Hard Pressed poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous hard pressed poems. These examples illustrate what a famous hard pressed poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Paterson, Andrew Barton
...Do they know? At the turn to the straight
Where the favourites fail,
And every last atom of weight
Is telling its tale;
As some grim old stayer hard-pressed
Runs true to his breed,
And with head in front of the rest
Fights on in the lead;
When the jockeys are out with the whips,
With a furlong to go,
And the backers grow white in the lips --
Do ...Read more of this...
by
Williams, William Carlos (WCW)
...The pure products of America
go crazy—
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves
old names
and promiscuity between
devil-may-care men who have taken
to railroading
out of sheer lust of adventure—
and young slatterns, bathed
in filth
from Monday to Saturday
to be tricked ou...Read more of this...
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