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Famous Illustrating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...n man’s weapons.

{34b} Both Wiglaf and the sword did their duty. -- The following is one of the classic passages for illustrating the comitatus as the most conspicuous Germanic institution, and its underlying sense of duty, based partly on the idea of loyalty and partly on the practical basis of benefits received and repaid.

{34c} Sc. “than to bide safely here,” -- a common figure of incomplete comparison.

{34d} Wiglaf’s wooden shield.

{34e} Gering would translate...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,



...to a river bottom … and scandalized Stockholm with his gang of strangler women.
Mid-sea strangler hands rise before me illustrating a wish, “I ride horses for the moving pictures in America, $500,000, and you get ten per cent …”
This rider of fugitive dawns.…...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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