Famous Indrawn Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Moose

by Elizabeth Bishop
 From narrow provinces
of fish and bread and tea,
home of the long tides
where the bay leaves the sea
twice a day and takes
the herrings long rides,

where if the river
enters or retreats 
in a wall of brown foam
depends on if it meets
the bay coming in,
the bay not at home;

where, silted red,
sometimes the sun sets
facing a red sea,
and others, veins the flats'
lavender, rich...Read more of this...

The End Of March

by Elizabeth Bishop
 For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read: Duxbury


It was cold and windy, scarcely the day 
to take a walk on that long beach 
Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, 
indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, 
seabirds in ones or twos. 
The rackety, icy, offshore wind 
numbed our faces on one side; 
disrupted the formation 
of a...Read more of this...

Portrait

by Robert William Service
 Because life's passing show
 Is little to his mind,
There is a man I know
 Indrawn from human kind.
His dearest friends are books;
 Yet oh how glad he talks
To birds and trees and brooks
 On lonely walks.
He takes the same still way
 By grove and hill and sea;
He lives that each new day
 May like the last one be.
He hates...Read more of this...

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