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Famous Intones Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Matthews, William
...reams of the soon-to-be-dead
last longer by echo than the screamers do.
Let's go to the videotape, the news-
caster intones, and the control room does,
and the boat explodes again and again....Read more of this...



by Seeger, Alan
...
The antique prayers and ponderous antiphones. 
`Gloria Patri' echoes to the skies; 
`Nunc et in saecula' the choir intones. 
He marks not the monotonous refrain, 
The priest that serves nor him that celebrates, 
But ever scans the aisle for his blonde head. . . . In vain! 
She will not come, the woman that he waits. 


How like a flower seemed the perfumed place 
Where the sweet flesh lay loveliest to kiss; 
And her white hands in what delicious w...Read more of this...

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