Famous Lieder Poems by Famous Poets

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

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With Tenure

by David Lehman
 If Ezra Pound were alive today
 (and he is)
he'd be teaching
at a small college in the Pacific Northwest
and attending the annual convention
of writing instructors in St. Louis
and railing against tenure,
saying tenure
is a ladder whose rungs slip out
from under the scholar as he climbs
upwards to empty heaven
by the angels abandoned
for tenure killeth the spirit
(with tenure no man becomes master)
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On The New Year

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What we sing in company
Soon from heart to heart will fly.
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THE Gesellige Lieder, which I have angicisled 
as above, as several of them cannot be called convivial songs, are 
separated by Goethe from his other songs, and I have adhered to 
the same arrangement. The Ergo bibamus is a well-known drinking 
song in Germany, where it enjoys vast popularity.

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