Famous Latterly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Minor Poet

...dear because more near: Theokritus;
Heine that stings and smiles; Prometheus' bard;
(I've grown too coarse for Shelley latterly:)
And one wild singer of to-day, whose song
Is all aflame with passionate bard's blood
Lash'd into foam by pain and the world's wrong.
At least, he has a voice to cry his pain;
For him, no silent writhing in the dark,
No muttering of mute lips, no straining out
Of a weak throat a-choke with pent-up sound,
A-throb with pent-up passion. . .
Ah, my sun...Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy


Avons Harvest

...otsteps of his wife, 
Who, knowing less than I knew, yet knew more.
Now I could read, I fancied, through the fear 
That latterly was living in her eyes, 
To the sure source of its authority. 
But he went on, and I was there to listen: 

“And though I saw it only as a blot
Between me and my life, it was enough 
To make me know that he was watching there— 
Waiting for me to move, or not to move, 
Before he moved. Sick as I was with hate 
Reborn, and chained with fear that was m...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Going

...beetling Beeny Crest,
 And, reining nigh me,
 Would muse and eye me,
While Life unrolled us its very best.

Why, then, latterly did we not speak,
Did we not think of those days long dead,
And ere your vanishing strive to seek
That time's renewal? We might have said,
 "In this bright spring weather
 We'll visit together
Those places that once we visited."

 Well, well! All's past amend,
 Unchangeable. It must go.
I seem but a dead man held on end
To sink down soon. . . . O yo...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

The Queens Men

...Valour and Innocence 
 Have latterly gone hence
 To certain death by certain shame attended.
 Envy--ah! even to tears! --
 The fortune of their years
 Which, though so few, yet so divinely ended.

 Scarce had they lifted up
 Life's full and fiery cup,
 Than they had set it down untouched before them.
 Before their day arose
 They beckoned it to close--
 Close in confusion and destructi...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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