Famous Optional Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Optional poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous optional poems. These examples illustrate what a famous optional poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Dickinson, Emily
...Did We abolish Frost
The Summer would not cease --
If Seasons perish or prevail
Is optional with Us --...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...I am afraid to own a Body --
I am afraid to own a Soul --
Profound -- precarious Property --
Possession, not optional --
Double Estate -- entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir --
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier....Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...take them out
They were not there instead.
Security the same insures
To our assaulted Minds --
The staple must be optional
That an Immortal binds....Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...fy --
Remotest -- when most fair
The Sun shone whole at intervals --
Then Half -- then utter hid --
As if Himself were optional
And had Estates of Cloud
Sufficient to enfold Him
Eternally from view --
Except it were a whim of His
To let the Orchards grow --
A Bird sat careless on the fence --
One gossipped in the Lane
On silver matters charmed a Snake
Just winding round a Stone --
Bright Flowers slit a Calyx
And soared upon a Stem
Like Hindered Flags -- Sweet hoisted --
W...Read more of this...
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