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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