Famous Noughts Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black

by A E Housman
 Now hollow fires burn out to black, 
And lights are guttering low: 
Square your shoulders, lift your pack, 
And leave your friends and go. 

Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread, 
Look not to left nor right: 
In all the endless road you tread 
There's nothing but the night....Read more of this...

On my Aunt Mrs A. K. Drownd under London-Bridge in the QUEENS Bardge Anno 1641

by Anne Killigrew
 THe Darling of a Father Good and Wise, 
The Vertue, which a Vertuous Age did prize; 
The Beauty Excellent even to those were Faire, 
Subscrib'd unto, by such as might compare; 
The Star that 'bove her Orb did always move, 
And yet the Noblest did not Hate, but Love; 
And those who most upon their Title stood, 
Vail'd also...Read more of this...

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