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Famous Meting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Pessoa, Fernando
...ke

And question closer to the morrow's pleasure?

Would it not edge nearer my words, to take

The promise in the meting of its measure?

So, if it slept, 'twas that it cared but for

The present sleepy use of promised joy,

Thanking the fruit but for the forecome flower

Which the less active senses best enjoy.

Thus with deceit do I detain the heart

Of which deceit's self knows itself a part....Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...
 A sand scraped from the mould, brushed from the shroud 
 Of all passed things, mean, great, lowly, or proud. 
 Thus meting with the ashes of the dead 
 How hours of the living have quickly fled. 
 The sand runs, monarchs! the clepsydra weeps. 
 Wherefore? They see through future's gloomy deeps, 
 Through the church wall, into the catacomb, 
 And mark the change when thrones do graves become. 
 
 THE FIFTH SPHINX. 
 
 To swerve the earth seemed from its wonted pat...Read more of this...

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