Famous Memoir Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Memoir poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous memoir poems. These examples illustrate what a famous memoir poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...We look on the shoulders filling the stage of the Chicago Auditorium.
A fat mayor has spoken much English and the mud of his speech is crossed with quicksilver hisses elusive and rapid from floor and gallery.
A neat governor speaks English and the listeners ring chimes to his clear thoughts.
Joffre speaks a few words in French; this is a voice of the lo...Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...HE lived on the wings of storm.
The ashes are in Chihuahua.
Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado
Sprang a vengeance of Slav miners, Italians, Scots, Cornishmen, Yanks.
Killings ran under the spoken commands of this boy
With eighty men and rifles on a hogback mountain.
They killed swearing to remember
The shot and charred wives and children
In the bur...Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...volumes give the English reader all the information
he is likely to require respecting Goethe's career, and my short
memoir appeared to be no longer required.
I need scarcely add that I have availed myself of this opportunity
to make whatever improvements have suggested themselves to me in
my original version of these Poems....Read more of this...
by
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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