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Famous Illy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hardy, Thomas
...O wych, 
Sting you like scorn! 
You, too, brave hollies, twitch 
Sidelong from thorn. 
Even the rank poplars bear 
Illy a rival’s air, 
Cankering in black despair 
If overborne. 

Since, then, no grace I find 
Taught me of trees, 
Turn I back to my kind, 
Worthy as these. 
There at least smiles abound, 
There discourse trills around, 
There, now and then, are found 
Life-loyalties....Read more of this...



by Murray, Les
...hat means everything at once 
like a shrugging of cream shoulders 
like paintings hung on park mesh 
sonore doom soneer illy chesh 
they lost the off switch in my lifetime 
the world reverberates with Muzak 
and Prozac. As it doesn't with poe-zac 
(I did meet a Miss Universe named Verstak). 
Music to me is like days 
I rarely catch who composed them 
if one's sublime I think God 
my life-signs suspend. I nod 
it's like both Stilton and cure 
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