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Famous Masterpieces Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e search, if Fortune grants; 
And the great cities of the world shall yet 
Be golden frames for me in which to set 
New masterpieces of more rare romance....Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan



...You are brief and frail and blue-
Little sisters, I am, too.
You are Heaven's masterpieces-
Little loves, the likeness ceases....Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy
...nd all reason: these the women sang; 
And they that know such things--I sought but peace; 
No critic I--would call them masterpieces: 
They mastered ~me~. At last she begged a boon, 
A certain summer-palace which I have 
Hard by your father's frontier: I said no, 
Yet being an easy man, gave it: and there, 
All wild to found an University 
For maidens, on the spur she fled; and more 
We know not,--only this: they see no men, 
Not even her brother Arac, nor the twins 
Her bret...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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