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Famous Off Duty(P) Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General,
Captain Fatigue, and at the base of all
pale Corporal Fatigue,
and curious microbes came, came viruses:
and the Court conferred on Henry, and conferred on Henry
the rare Order of Weak.

—How come dims one these wholesome elsers oh?
Old polymaths, old trackers, far from home,
say how thro' auburn hairtidbits ...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John



...I
How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, 
over there, over there,
beyond the high wall! How quietly the Seine runs in loops 
and windings,
over there, over there, sliding through the green countryside! Like 
ships
of the line, stately with canvas, the tall clouds pass along the 
sky,
over the glittering roof, over the trees, over the looped and cur...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

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