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Famous Jutland Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...seizes, and this done, 
 The Emp'ror pillages, usurping right 
 In war Teutonic, settled but by might. 
 The King in Jutland cynic footing gains, 
 The weak coerced, the while with cunning pains 
 The strong are duped. But 'tis a law they make 
 That their accord themselves should never break. 
 From Arctic seas to cities Transalpine, 
 Their hideous talons, curved for sure rapine, 
 Scrape o'er and o'er the mournful continent, 
 Their plans succeed, and each is wel...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor



...ther than a Fool Carl—
Then I would hurl them only another fool’s laugh—
I would remember last Sunday when I stood on a jutland of fire-born red granite watching the drop of the sun in the middle of the afternoon and the full moon shining over Stockholm four o’clock in the afternoon.
If the young men will read five lines of one of my poems I will let the kings have all the bronze—I ask only that one page of my writings be a knapsack keepsake of the young men who are the blood...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl
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Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard,
Watching the pointing hands
Of country people,
Not knowing their tongue.

Out here in Jutland
In the old man-killing parishes
I will feel lost,
Unhappy and at home....Read more of this...
by Heaney, Seamus

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