Famous Indicated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Motor Courtship

...heated. 

"And I trust that a timely lubrication 
Of throttle will cool your circulation." 

As a well-made mixture she indicated, 
With joy and gladness he radiated. 

"Oh, come," said he, "in this soft spring weather, 
Let us run over the world together!" 

But she slipped his clutch with a gesture mocking, 
"Your heart," she said; "I can hear it knocking. 

"You haven't the gear at my pace to last; 
Both men and motors -- I like them fast. 

"And I think that in me you hav...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


Beowulf (Old English)

...eant. “Hid” may well mean here “took while in hiding.”

{40b} That is “one and a few others.” But Beowulf seems to be indicated.

{40c} Ten Brink points out the strongly heathen character of this part of the epic. Beowulf’s end came, so the old tradition ran, from his unwitting interference with spell-bound treasure.

{40d} A hard saying, variously interpreted. In any case, it is the somewhat clumsy effort of the Christian poet to tone down the heathenism of his materia...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

General William Booth Enters into Heaven

...[To be sung to the tune of The Blood of the Lamb with indicated instrument] 


I 

[Bass drum beaten loudly.]

Booth led boldly with his big bass drum --
(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
The Saints smiled gravely and they said: "He's come."
(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
Walking lepers followed, rank on rank,
Lurching bravoes from the ditches dank,
Drabs from the alleyways and drug fiends ...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

Gin

...ey or brandy,
but Eddie defended his choice
on the grounds of the expressions
"gin house" and "gin lane," both
of which indicated the preeminence
of gin in the world of drinking,
a world we were entering without
understanding how difficult
exit might be. Maybe the bliss
that came with drinking came
only after a certain period
of apprenticeship. Eddie likened
it to the holy man's self-flagellation
to experience the fullness of faith.
(He was very well read for a kid
of fourtee...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

One Hour to Madness and Joy

...ckless and dangerous! 
To court destruction with taunts—with invitations! 
To ascend—to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me! 
To rise thither with my inebriate Soul! 
To be lost, if it must be so!
To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom! 
With one brief hour of madness and joy....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Original Preface

...I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a 
work of the character of that indicated by the title-page to the 
present volume; for, difficult as it must always be to render satisfactorily 
into one's own tongue the writings of the bards of other lands, 
the responsibility assumed by the translator is immeasurably increased 
when he attempts to transfer the thoughts of those great men, who 
have lived for all the world and for all a...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

The Most Beautiful Woman In Town

...e and I kept thinking, I should have
insisted she stay with me instead of accepting that "no." Everything about her
had indicated that she had cared. I simply had been too offhand about it, lazy, too
unconcerned. I deserved my death and hers. I was a dog. No, why blame the dogs? I got up
and found a bottle of wine and drank from it heavily. Cass the most beautiful girl in town
was dead at 20. Outside somebody honked their automobile horn. They were very loud and
persistent. I...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles

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