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Famous Investing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tate, James
...of golf as if it were nothing.
These same people stroll into a church 
as if that were a natural part of life. 
Investing money is second nature to them. 
They contribute to political campaigns 
that have absolutely no poetry in them 
and promise none for the future.
They sit around the dinner table at night 
and pretend as though nothing is missing. 
Their children get caught shoplifting at the mall 
and no one admits that it is poetry they are missing.Read more of this...



by Taylor, Edward
...of golf as if it were nothing.
These same people stroll into a church 
as if that were a natural part of life. 
Investing money is second nature to them. 
They contribute to political campaigns 
that have absolutely no poetry in them 
and promise none for the future.
They sit around the dinner table at night 
and pretend as though nothing is missing. 
Their children get caught shoplifting at the mall 
and no one admits that it is poetry they are missing.Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...me is conquered.


III

Here is a place of disaffection
Time before and time after
In a dim light: neither daylight
Investing form with lucid stillness
Turning shadow into transient beauty
With slow rotation suggesting permanence
Nor darkness to purify the soul
Emptying the sensual with deprivation
Cleansing affection from the temporal.
Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
Over the strained time-ridden faces
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Fill...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...lf alive,
With her throat so paralyzed, when she swallowed
The soup ran out of her mouth like a duck --
A gourmand yet, investing her income
In mortgages, fretting all the time
About her notes and rents and papers.
That day I was sawing wood for her,
And reading Proudhon in between.
I went in the house for a drink of water,
And there she sat asleep in her chair,
And Proudhon lying on the table,
And a bottle of chloroform on the book,
She used sometimes for an aching t...Read more of this...

by Ashbery, John
...hing with their mirror games
Which seem to multiply stakes and possibilities, or
At least confuse issues by means of an investing
Aura that would corrode the architecture
Of the whole in a haze of suppressed mockery,
Are beside the point. They are out of the game,
Which doesn't exist until they are out of it.
It seems like a very hostile universe
But as the principle of each individual thing is
Hostile to, exists at the expense of all the others
As philosophers have o...Read more of this...



by Chatterton, Thomas
...ours majestic thro' the spacious height: 
But farther yet the tardy Saturn lags, 
And five attendant Luminaries drags, 
Investing with a double ring his pace, 
He circles thro' immensity of space. 
These are thy wondrous works, first source of Good! 
Now more admir'd in being understood....Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...who would open the golden door 
Must give his all to the starving poor. 
But I vary the practice to some extent 
By investing money at twelve per cent, 
And after I've preached for a decent while 
I clear for 'home' with a lordly pile. 
I frighten my congregation well 
With fear of torment and threats of hell, 
Although I know that the scientists 
Can't find that any such place exists. 
And when they prove it beyond mistake 
That the world took millions of years t...Read more of this...

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