Famous Interrupting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Avons Harvest

...selves. Beware, I say; 
And I’m a sorry one, I fear, to say it, 
Though for the moment we may let that go
And while I’m interrupting my own story 
I’ll ask of you the favor of a look 
Into the street. I like it when it’s empty. 
There’s only one man walking? Let him walk. 
I wish to God that all men might walk always,
And so, being busy, love one another more.” 

“Avon,” I said, now in my chair again, 
“Although I may not be here to be happy, 
If you are careless, I may have ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Death sets a thing significant

...e and there,
Had notched the place that pleased him,--
At rest his fingers are.

Now, when I read, I read not,
For interrupting tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

I got so I could take his name

...it, be,
Not subject to Despair --
It care, in some remoter way,
For so minute affair
As Misery --
Itself, too vast, for interrupting -- more --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

La Solitude de St. Amant

...may see,
Who frighted to retreat do fly
If an approaching man they spy.


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Here water-flowl repose enjoy,
Without the interrupting care,
Lest Fortune should their bliss destroy
By the malicious fowler's snare.
Some ravish'd with so bright a day,
Their feathers finely prune and deck;
Others their amorous heats allay,
Which yet the waters could not check:
All take their innocent content
In this their lovely element.


7

Summer's, nor Winter's bold approach,
This stream did n...Read more of this...
by Philips, Katherine

Mans Injustice Towards Providence

...chemes were bred? 
What Phrenzy, what Delirium mars the Scull, 
Which fill'd the Chests, and was it self so full? 
Here interrupting, sadly he Reply'd, 
In Me's no Change, but Fate must all Things guide; 
To Providence I attribute my Loss.

Vain-glorious Man do's thus the Praise engross, 
When Prosp'rous Days around him spread their Beams: 
But, if revolv'd to opposite Extreams, 
Still his own Sence he fondly will prefer, 
And Providence, not He, in his Affairs must Err!...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill


Sandpiper

...nical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.

The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet
of interrupting water comes and goes
and glazes over his dark and brittle feet.
He runs, he runs straight through it, watching his toes.

--Watching, rather, the spaces of sand between them
where (no detail too small) the Atlantic drains
rapidly backwards and downwards. As he runs,
he stares at the dragging grains.

The world is a mist. And then the world is
mi...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth

Sestina VI

...new. Look on my state, amid temptations new,Which, interrupting my life's tranquil course,Have made me denizen of darkling wood;If good, restore me, fetterless and free,My wand'ring consort, and be thine the prizeIf yet with thee I find her in blest part. Lo! thus in part I pu...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Lovers of the Poor

...anting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
Here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair,
The pink paint on the innocence of fear;
Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall. 
Cutting with knives served by their softest care,
Served by their love, so barbarously fair.
Whose mothers taught: You'd better not be cruel!
You had better not throw stones upon the wrens!
Herein they kiss and coddle and assault
Anew and dea...Read more of this...
by Brooks, Gwendolyn

The Men That Fought at Minden

...y was --
 Never didn't talk o' rights an' wrongs,
But they got it with the toe (same as you will get it -- so!) --
 For interrupting songs.

The men that fought at Minden, they was several other things
 Which I don't remember clear;
But that's the reason why, now the six-year men are dry,
 The rooks will stand the beer!

Then do not be discouraged, 'Eaven is your 'elper,
 We'll learn you not to forget;
An' you mustn't swear an' curse, or you'll only catch it worse,
 For we'll...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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