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Famous Intellectuals Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Graham, Jorie
...hoes in the other story,
 red from all we had stepped in, 
no, this the coat all warm curves and grassy specificities,
 intellectuals also there, but still indoors, 
standing up smokily to mastermind,
 theory emerging like a flowery hat, 
there, above the head,
 descending,


while outside, outside, this coat — 
 which I desire, which I, in the tale, 
desire — as it touches the dream of reason
 which I carry inevitably in my shoulders, in my very carriage, forgive me, 
begins...Read more of this...



by Kipling, Rudyard
...e Lords of Looseness
 That hamper faith and works,
The Perseverance-Doubters,
 And Present-Comfort shirks,
With brittle intellectuals
 Who crack beneath a strain--
John Bunyan met that helpful set
 In Charles the Second's reign.


Emmanuel's vanguard dying
 For right and not for rights,
My Lord Apollyon lying
 To the State-kept Stockholmites,
The Pope, the swithering Neutrals
 The Kaiser and his Gott--
Their roles, their goals, their naked souls--
 He knew and drew the lo...Read more of this...

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