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Famous Officially Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...eaving

A city for a cottage

On the moors, the 

Hyaline air, the silence

And the distant stars.

I am your poet

Officially or unofficially

You may not know it

But I am.

From the hilly north

I came and sang.

I found myself

At least half-a-swan.

Through all my rage

You see a man

Wanting love.

Through all your calm

I see a woman loving....Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...I'm dead.
Officially I'm dead. Their hope is past.
How long I stood as missing! Now, at last
 I'm dead.

Look in my face -- no likeness can you see,
No tiny trace of him they knew as "me".
How terrible the change!
Even my eyes are strange.
So keyed are they to pain,
That if I chanced to meet
My mother in the street
She'd look at me in vain.

Wh...Read more of this...

by Walcott, Derek
...looked out from the Great House windows on 
clouds that still held the fragrance of fire, 
he saw the Botanical Gardens officially drown 
in a formal dusk, where governors had strolled 
and black gardeners had smiled over glinting shears 
at the lilies of parasols on the floating lawns, 
the flame trees obeyed his will and lowered their wicks, 
the flowers tightened their fists in the name of thrift, 
the porcelain lamps of ripe cocoa, the magnolia's jet 
dimmed on the one ci...Read more of this...

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