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Famous Long Standing Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Long Standing 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 standing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous long standing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Wilbur, Richard
...Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose
Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding
Whether there shall be lofty or long standing
When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close....Read more of this...



by Mayakovsky, Vladimir
...esent to you,
 the planet’s proletarian.

The enemy
 of the massed working class
is my enemy too
 inveterate and of long standing.

Years of trial
 and days of hunger
 ordered us
to march 
 under the red flag.

We opened
 each volume
 of Marx
as we would open
 the shutters
 in our own house;
but we did not have to read
 to make up our minds
which side to join,
 which side to fight on.

Our dialectics
 were not learned
 from Hegel.
In the roar of battle
 it...Read more of this...

by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...ms! the dead demand the dead! 
Let the grand charge upon the lodge be led! 
Let the Mosaic law, life for a life
Pay the long standing debt of blood. War to the knife! 

XIII.

So spake each heart in that unholy rage
Which fires the brain, when war the thoughts engage.
War, hideous war, appealing to the worst
In complex man, and waking that wild thirst
For human blood which blood alone can slake.
Yet for their country's safety, and the sake
Of tortured captives...Read more of this...

by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing,

Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast,
To his mistress' home repairing,

There to hold his wedding feast;
When a threatening foe advances

From a desert, rocky spot;
For the fray they couch their lances,

Not delaying, speaking not.

Long the doubtful fight continues,

Victory then for Curt declares;
Conqueror, though wit...Read more of this...

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