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Famous Long Range Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lawrence, D. H.
...ys no heed though we moan
In sorrow, since we stand in bewilderment, strange 
And fearful to sally forth down the sky’s long range. 

We may not cry to her still to sustain us here,
We may not hold her shadow back from the dark. 
Oh, let us here forget, let us take the sheer 
Unknown that lies before us, bearing the ark 
Of the covenant onwards where she cannot go. 
Let us rise and leave her now, she will never know....Read more of this...



by Dunn, Stephen
...The dogs greet me, I descend
into their world of fur and tongues
and then my wife and I embrace
as if we'd just closed the door
in a motel, our two girls slip in
between us and we're all saying
each other's names and the dogs
Buster and Sundown are on their hind legs,
people-style, seeking more love.
I've come home wanting to touch
everyone, everything...Read more of this...

by Sandburg, Carl
...in the heads of men.

In the old wars clutches of short swords and jabs into
faces with spears.
In the new wars long range guns and smashed walls, guns
running a spit of metal and men falling in tens and
twenties.
In the wars to come new silent deaths, new silent hurlers
not yet dreamed out in the heads of men.

    In the old wars kings quarreling and thousands of men
     following.
    In the new wars kings quarreling and millions of men
     following....Read more of this...

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