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Famous Made To Order Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...tead
With heads like darning-eggs to nod
And nod and nod at foot and head
And at the left side of my crib?

Mother, who made to order stories
Of Mixie Blackshort the heroic bear,
Mother, whose witches always, always
Got baked into gingerbread, I wonder
Whether you saw them, whether you said
Words to rid me of those three ladies
Nodding by night around my bed,
Mouthless, eyeless, with stitched bald head.

In the hurricane, when father's twelve
Study windows bellied in
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by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...surprise 
As you breathe some pretty sentence, though she hates you all the while, 
She is very apt to stun you with a made to order smile. 

It's a sublte combination of a sneer and a caress, 
With a dash of warmth thrown in to relieve its iciness, 
And she greets you when she meets you with that look as if a file 
Had been used to fix and fashion out the made to order smile. 

I confess that I'm eccentric and am not a woman's man, 
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