Famous Objective Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

...ippled

yet again with bloom
to greet the solstice:
What year was it it over-
took the fire escape? The
roof's its next objective.
Will posterity (if there 

is any)pause to regret
such layerings of shade,
their cadenced crests' trans-
valuation of decay, the dust
and perfume of an all
too terminable process?...Read more of this...
by Clampitt, Amy


Circes Grief

...her weaving, her head turning
First to the right, then left
Though it was hopeless of course
To trace that sound to any
Objective source: I doubt
She will return to her loom
With what she knows now. When
You see her again, tell her
This is how a god says goodbye:
If I am in her head forever
I am in your life forever....Read more of this...
by Gluck, Louise

Counter-Attack

...We’d gained our first objective hours before 
While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, 
Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, blind with smoke. 
Things seemed all right at first. We held their line, 
With bombers posted, Lewis guns well placed, 
And clink of shovels deepening the shallow trench. 
The place was rotten with dead; green clumsy legs 
High-booted, sprawled and grovell...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

Devotion to Duty

...
Thick-voiced, he read it out. (His face was grave.) 
‘This officer advanced with the first wave, 

‘And when our first objective had been gained,
‘(Though wounded twice), reorganized the line: 
‘The spirit of the troops was by his fine 
‘Example most effectively sustained.’ 

He gripped his beard; then closed his eyes and said, 
‘Bathsheba must be warned that he is dead.
‘Send for her. I will be the first to tell 
‘This wife how her heroic husband fell.’...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

...as now become a slum. Sydney Freedberg in his
Parmigianino says of it: "Realism in this portrait
No longer produces and objective truth, but a bizarria . . . . 
However its distortion does not create
A feeling of disharmony . . . . The forms retain
A strong measure of ideal beauty," because
Fed by our dreams, so inconsequential until one day
We notice the hole they left. Now their importance
If not their meaning is plain. They were to nourish
A dream which includes them all, ...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John


The Ballad Of Hard-Luck Henry

...ouds of nicotine, she cheered his weary way.
At last he yielded to the spell; his course of love he set--
Wisconsin his objective point; his object, Margaret.

With every mile of sea and land his longing grew and grew.
He practised all his pretty words, and these, I fear, were few.
At last, one frosty evening, with a cold chill down his spine,
He found himself before her house, the threshold of the shrine.
His courage flickered to a spark, then glowed with sudden flame--
He k...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

the plane and the blackbird

...ts own circle
honoured the sunlight
and passed by the moon

from a treetop nearby
a sharp-singing blackbird
trilled its objective
gold-beaked lullay

the grave was filled in
the high hill deserted
and down in the valley
a rare christmas came...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

These are the days that Reindeer love

...These are the days that Reindeer love
And pranks the Northern star --
This is the Sun's objective,
And Finland of the Year....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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