Famous Maybe Tomorrow Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Tangibles

by Carl Sandburg
 (Washington, August, 1918)I HAVE seen this city in the day and the sun.
I have seen this city in the night and the moon.
And in the night and the moon I have seen a thing this city gave me nothing of in the day and the sun.

The float of the dome in the day and the sun is one thing.
The...Read more of this...

Learning by Doing

by Howard Nemerov
 They're taking down a tree at the front door,
The power saw is snarling at some nerves,
Whining at others. Now and then it grunts,
And sawdust falls like snow or a drift of seeds.
Rotten, they tell us, at the fork, and one
Big wind would bring it down. So what they do
They do, as usual, to do us good.
Whatever cannot carry its...Read more of this...

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