Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Obediently Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

...are accomplish’d—they shall now be turn’d the other way also, to
 travel toward you thence; 
They shall now also march obediently eastward, for your sake, Libertad....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...This level reach of blue is not my sea;
Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,
Whose quiet ripples meet obediently
A marked and measured line, one after one.
This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves
Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm.
I have a need of wilder, crueler waves;
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

So let a love beat over me again,
Loosing its million desperate breakers wide;
Sudden and terrible to rise and wane;...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy
...The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,

as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

Long ago you kissed the names of the n...Read more of this...
by Collins, Billy
...The last chord fades.The night is cold and fine.
His master's voice rasps through the grooves' bare groves.
Obediently, in silence like the grave's
He sleeps there on the still-warm gramophone

Only to dream he is at the première of a Handel
Opera long thought lost--Il Cane Minore.
Its allegorical subject is his story!
A little dog revolving round a spindle

Gives rise to harmonies beyond belief,
A cast of stars . . . . Is there in Victor's hea...Read more of this...
by Merrill, James
...hate,
 despair,
 amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks; 
They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man, or that
 woman. 

.... O I see arise orators fit for inland America; 
And I see it is as slow to become an orator as to become a man;
And I see that all power is folded in a great vocalism. 

Of a great vocalism, the merciless light thereof shall pour, and the storm rage, 
Every flash shall be...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



Dont forget to view our wonderful member Obediently poems.