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Famous Occupant Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Fame is the one that does not stay --
Its occupant must die
Or out of sight of estimate
Ascend incessantly --
Or be that most insolvent thing
A Lightning in the Germ --
Electrical the embryo
But we demand the Flame...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily



...edge for a Father to prepare. 

There he looked sadly on the little place; 
A beehive round it was, without a trace 
Of occupant or owner; standing dim 
Among the gloomy trees it seemed to Him 
A final desolation, the last word 
Wherewith the lips of silence had been stirred. 
Chaste and remote, so tiny and so shy, 
So new withal, so lost to any eye, 
So pac't of memories all innocent 
Of days and nights that in it had been spent 
In blithe communion, Adam, Eve, and He, 
Afar...Read more of this...
by Stephens, James

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