Famous Metro Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Metro poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous metro poems. These examples illustrate what a famous metro poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Service, Robert William
...ng alone with Pity,
And they say that pity from love's not far;
Let me tell you all: last week in the city
I took the metro at Saint Lazare;
And the carriage was crowded to overflowing,
And when there entered at Chateaudun
Two wounded poilus with medals showing,
I eagerly gave my seat to one.
You should have seen them: they'd slipped death's clutches,
But sadder a sight you will rarely find;
One had a leg off and walked on crutches,
The other, a bit of a boy, was b...Read more of this...
by
Pound, Ezra
...The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough....Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...erch? burli?».
Cos? tornavan per lo cerchio tetro
da ogne mano a l'opposito punto,
gridandosi anche loro ontoso metro;
poi si volgea ciascun, quand'era giunto,
per lo suo mezzo cerchio a l'altra giostra.
E io, ch'avea lo cor quasi compunto,
dissi: «Maestro mio, or mi dimostra
che gente ? questa, e se tutti fuor cherci
questi chercuti a la sinistra nostra».
Ed elli a me: «Tutti quanti fuor guerci
s? de la mente in la vita primaia,
che con misura nul...Read more of this...
by
Doty, Mark
...Over the terminal,
the arms and chest
of the god
brightened by snow.
Formerly mercury,
formerly silver,
surface yellowed
by atmospheric sulphurs
acid exhalations,
and now the shining
thing's descendant.
Obscure passages,
dim apertures:
these clouded windows
show a few faces
or some empty car's
filmstrip of lit flames
--remember the...Read more of this...
by
Schwartz, Delmore
...I looked toward the movie, the common dream,
The he and she in close-ups, nearer than life,
And I accepted such things as they seem,
The easy poise, the absence of the knife,
The near summer happily ever after,
The understood question, the immediate strife,
Not dangerous, nor mortal, but the fadeout
Enormously kissing amid warm laughter,
As if such ...Read more of this...
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