Famous Old Poetry by Famous Poets

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

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Saturday At The Border

by Hayden Carruth
 "Form follows function follows form . . . , etc."

   --Dr. J. Anthony Wadlington

Here I am writing my first villanelle
At seventy-two, and feeling old and tired--
"Hey, Pops, why dontcha give us the old death knell?"--

And writing it what's more on the rim of hell
In blazing Arizona when all I desired
Was north and solitude and not a villanelle,

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