Famous Maters Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Rondeau of College Rhymes

by Henry Van Dyke
 Our college rhymes,--how light they seem,
Like little ghosts of love's young dream
That led our boyish hearts away
From lectures and from books, to stray
By flowery mead and flowing stream!

There's nothing here, in form or theme,
Of thought sublime or art supreme:
We would not have the critic weigh
Our college rhymes.

Yet if, perchance, a slender beam
Of feeling's glow or fancy's gleam
Still lingers in...Read more of this...

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