Famous More Often Than Not Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous More Often Than Not poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous more often than not poems. These examples illustrate what a famous more often than not poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Anseo

by Paul Muldoon
 When the master was calling the roll
At the primary school in Collegelands,
You were meant to call back Anseo
And raise your hand 
As your name occurred.
Anseo, meaning here, here and now,
All present and correct,
Was the first word of Irish I spoke.
The last name on the ledger
Belonged to Joseph Mary Plunkett Ward
And was followed, as often as not,
By silence, knowing looks,...Read more of this...

Impossible To Tell

by Robert Pinsky
 to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert


Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
Bashõ and his friends go out to view the moon;
In summer, gasoline rainbow in the gutter,

The secret courtesy that courses like ichor
Through the old form of the rude, full-scale joke,
Impossible to tell in writing. "Bashõ"

He named himself, "Banana Tree": banana
After the plant some grateful students...Read more of this...

Song From Heine

by Thomas Hardy
 I scanned her picture dreaming, 
 Till each dear line and hue 
Was imaged, to my seeming, 
 As if it lived anew. 

Her lips began to borrow 
 Their former wondrous smile; 
Her fair eyes, faint with sorrow, 
 Grew sparkling as erstwhile. 

Such tears as often ran not 
 Ran then, my love, for thee; 
And O,...Read more of this...

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