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Famous Mandolins Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
...es turn about my heart
And stifle me to swooning.
Open the window, I beg.
Lord! What a strumming of fiddles and mandolins!
'Tis really a shame to stop indoors.
Call my maid, or I will make you lace me yourself.
Fie, how hot it is, not a breath of air!
See how straight the leaves are falling.
Marianna, I will have the yellow satin caught up with silver fringe,
It peeps out delightfully from under a mantle.
Am I well painted to-day, `caro Abate mio'?
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by Pound, Ezra
...after the sound:
 "The old swimming hole,
"And the boys flopping off the planks,
"Or sitting in the underbrush playing mandolins."
 And Kung smiled upon all of them equally.
And Thseng-sie desired to know:
 "Which had answered correctly?"
And Kung said, "They have all answered correctly,
"That is to say, each in his nature."
And Kung raised his cane against Yuan Jang,
 Yuan Jang being his elder,

or Yuan Jang sat by the roadside pretending to
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by Masters, Edgar Lee
...ave these behind for a room with lamps:
And to stand with our Secret mocking itself,
And hiding itself amid flowers and mandolins,
Stared at by all between salad and coffee.
And to see him tremble, and feel myself
Prescient, as one who signs a bond --
Not flaming with gifts and pledges heaped
With rosy hands over his brow.
And then, O night! deliberate! unlovely!
With all of our wooing blotted out by the winning,
In a chosen room in an hour that was known to all!
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