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Famous Looking Forward To It Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...I won the prize essay at school
Here in the village,
And published a novel before I was twenty-five.
I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art;
There married the banker’s daughter,
And later became president of the bank—
Always looking forward to some leisure
To write an epic novel of the war.
Meanwhile friend of the great, and lover of letters,
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by Masters, Edgar Lee



...They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground, 
And with cedar they have woven the four walls round. 
Like a little dryad hiding she’ll be wrapped all in green, 
Better kept and longer valued than by ways that would have been. 

They will come with many roses in the early afternoon,
They will come with pinks and lilies and with Leonora soon; 
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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...When I am grown to man's estate 
I shall be very proud and great, 
And tell the other girls and boys 
Not to meddle with my toys....Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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They that in play can do the thing they would,
Having an instinct throned in reason's place,
--And every perfect action hath the grace
Of indolence or thoughtless hardihood--
These are the best: yet be there workmen good
Who lose in earnestness control of face,
Or reckon means, and rapt in effort base
Reach to their end by steps well understood. 
Me whom...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour

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