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Famous On The Books Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hikmet, Nazim
...the lines what they desire,
 when your eyes tire,
rest your tired head
 like a black-and-yellow Japanese chrysanthemum
 on the books..
 SLEEP
 SI-YA-U
 SLEEP...


18 April

I've begun to forget
the names of those Renaissance masters.
I want to see
 the black bird-and-flower

 watercolors
 that slant-eyed Chinese painters

 drip
 from their long thin bamboo brushes.


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by Lowell, Amy
...
The shifting sun pierces the young green leaves
Of elm trees, newly coming into bud,
And splashes on the floor and on the books
Through old, high, rounded windows, dim with age.
The noisy city-sounds of modern life
Float softened to us across the old graveyard.
The room is filled with a warm, mellow light,
No garish colours jar on our content,
The books upon the shelves are old and worn.
'T was no belated effort nor attempt
To keep abreast with old as well as...Read more of this...

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