Famous Indemnity Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Indemnity poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous indemnity poems. These examples illustrate what a famous indemnity poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...rue legends better left to die.
In my black rain coat I go back
out into the gray morning and dare
the cars on North Indemnity Boulevard
to hit me, but no one wants trouble
at this hour. I have crossed
a continent to bring these citizens
the poems of the snowy mountains,
of the forges of hopelessness,
of the survivors of wars they
never heard of and won't believe.
Nothing is alive in this tunnel
of winds of the end of winter
except the last raging of winter,
the...Read more of this...
by
Levine, Philip
...I was attorney for the "Q"
And the Indemnity Company which insured
The owners of the mine.
I pulled the wires with judge and jury,
And the upper courts, to beat the claims
Of the crippled, the widow and orphan,
And made a fortune thereat.
The bar association sang my praises
In a high-flown resolution.
And the floral tributes were many --
But the rats devoured my heart
And a snake made a nest ...Read more of this...
by
Masters, Edgar Lee
...Of so divine a Loss
We enter but the Gain,
Indemnity for Loneliness
That such a Bliss has been....Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...She sped as Petals of a Rose
Offended by the Wind --
A frail Aristocrat of Time
Indemnity to find --
Leaving on nature -- a Default
As Cricket or as Bee --
But Andes in the Bosoms where
She had begun to lie --...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
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