Famous Organic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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To Flowers From Italy in Winter

by Thomas Hardy
 Sunned in the South, and here to-day; 
 --If all organic things 
Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say, 
 What are your ponderings? 

How can you stay, nor vanish quite 
 From this bleak spot of thorn, 
And birch, and fir, and frozen white 
 Expanse of the forlorn? 

Frail luckless exiles hither brought! 
 Your dust will...Read more of this...

Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy

by Walt Whitman
 YOU just maturing youth! You male or female! 
Remember the organic compact of These States, 
Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life, liberty,
 equality of
 man, 
Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and
 white
 by the Commissioners, and read by Washington at the head of the...Read more of this...

Apostroph

by Walt Whitman
 O MATER! O fils! 
O brood continental! 
O flowers of the prairies! 
O space boundless! O hum of mighty products! 
O you teeming cities! O so invincible, turbulent, proud!
O race of the future! O women! 
O fathers! O you men of passion and the storm! 
O native power only! O beauty! 
O yourself! O God! O divine average! 
O...Read more of this...

The Animating Principle

by Friedrich von Schiller
 Nowhere in the organic or sensitive world ever kindles
Novelty, save in the flower, noblest creation of life....Read more of this...

The Answer

by Robinson Jeffers
 Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. 
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, 
 and their tyrants come, many times before. 
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose 
 the least ugly faction; these evils are essential. 
To keep one's own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted 
...Read more of this...

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