Famous Look Across Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Sewing-Girl

by Robert William Service
 The humble garret where I dwell
Is in that Quarter called the Latin;
It isn't spacious -- truth to tell,
There's hardly room to swing a cat in.
But what of that! It's there I fight
For food and fame, my Muse inviting,
And all the day and half the night
You'll find me writing, writing, writing.

Now, it was in the month of May
As, wrestling with...Read more of this...

The Mourners

by Robert William Service
 I look into the aching womb of night;
 I look across the mist that masks the dead;
The moon is tired and gives but little light,
 The stars have gone to bed.

The earth is sick and seems to breathe with pain;
 A lost wind whimpers in a mangled tree;
I do not see the foul, corpse-cluttered plain,
 The dead I do...Read more of this...

For You

by Carl Sandburg
 THE PEACE of great doors be for you.
Wait at the knobs, at the panel oblongs.
Wait for the great hinges.

The peace of great churches be for you,
Where the players of loft pipe organs
Practice old lovely fragments, alone.

The peace of great books be for you,
Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

The peace of...Read more of this...

At a Dinner Party

by Amy Levy
 With fruit and flowers the board is deckt,
The wine and laughter flow;
I'll not complain--could one expect
So dull a world to know?

You look across the fruit and flowers,
My glance your glances find.--
It is our secret, only ours,
Since all the world is blind....Read more of this...

How Could You Not

by Galway Kinnell
 -- for Jane kenyon


It is a day after many days of storms.
Having been washed and washed, the air glitters;
small heaped cumuli blow across the sky; a shower
visible against the firs douses the crocuses.
We knew it would happen one day this week.
Now, when I learn you have died, I go
to the open door and look across at New Hampshire
and see...Read more of this...

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