Famous Mechanically Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Cows

....

Each is the image of content
From fragrant hours in clover spent,
 'Mid leaf and bud;
As up and down without a pause
Mechanically move their jaws
 To chew the cud.

Friend, there's a hope for me and you:
Let us resolve to chew and chew
 With molars strong;
The man who learns to masticate
With patience may control his fate,
 His life prolong.

In salivation is salvation:
So if some silly little nation
 Should bathe in blood,
Let's take a lesson from the cow,
And learn in li...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Gods Funeral

...osed a crowd of whom
Some were right good, and many nigh the best....
Thus dazed and puzzled 'twixt the gleam and gloom
Mechanically I followed with the rest....Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

The Book of Annandale

...
Those under-thoughts. He covered with his hands 
His tired eyes, and waited: he could hear— 
Or partly feel and hear, mechanically— 
The sound of talk, with now and then the steps
And skirts of some one scudding on the stairs, 
Forgetful of the nerveless funeral feet 
That she had brought with her; and more than once 
There came to him a call as of a voice— 
A voice of love returning—but not hers.
Whose he knew not, nor dreamed; nor did he know, 
Nor did he dream, in his bl...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Theres been a Death in the Opposite House

...ave -- alway --

The Neighbors rustle in and out --
The Doctor -- drives away --
A Window opens like a Pod --
Abrupt -- mechanically --

Somebody flings a Mattress out --
The Children hurry by --
They wonder if it died -- on that --
I used to -- when a Boy --

The Minister -- goes stiffly in --
As if the House were His --
And He owned all the Mourners -- now --
And little Boys -- besides --

And then the Milliner -- and the Man
Of the Appalling Trade --
To take the measure of...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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