Famous Knowingness Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Knowingness poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous knowingness poems. These examples illustrate what a famous knowingness poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Tebb, Barry
...with reverence
By broken grates
In Pompeii’s streets.13
One hot summer night
Terry boasted with
Ten year old knowingness
That he’d **** Mary
Who was six but strangely
Experienced in sex
Both slipped away
Behind the hillocks
Of the Hollows.
He reappeared grinning
“I put it up her
Ask her if you
Don’t believe me”
Shyly Mary put down
Her head in passive
Acquiescence.
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Leaning over the wall
Staring at the cables
Reeled on giant drums
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by
Lanier, Sidney
...bear its strength,
And yet how stern our lights condemn
Delays that lend the darkness length;
To know all things, save knowingness;
To grasp, yet loosen, feeling's rein;
To waste no manhood on success;
To look with pleasure upon pain;
Though teased by small mixt social claims,
To lose no large simplicity,
And midst of clear-seen crimes and shames
To move with manly purity;
To hold, with keen, yet loving eyes,
Art's realm from Cleverness apart,
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