Famous Kew Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness

by Alexander Pope
 I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?...Read more of this...

The Fire Sermon

by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
  The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
  Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
  Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
  Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
  The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
  Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
  Or...Read more of this...

There was a young person of Kew

by Edward Lear
There was a young person of Kew,Whose virtues and vices were few;But with blamable haste she devoured some hot paste,Which destroyed that young person of Kew. ...Read more of this...

In the Neolithic Age

by Rudyard Kipling
 1895

I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage
 For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt.
I was singer to my clan in that dim, red Dawn of Man,
 And I sang of all we fought and feared and felt.

Yea, I sang as now I sing, when the Prehistoric spring
 Made the piled Biscayan ice-pack split and shove;
And the...Read more of this...

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