Famous Overturns Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sweeney among the Nightingales

by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
 APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe.

The circles of the stormy moon
Slide westward toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the hornèd gate.

Gloomy Orion and the Dog
Are veiled; and hushed the shrunken seas;
The person in the Spanish cape
Tries to sit on Sweeney’s knees

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The Bungler

by Amy Lowell
 You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles.
But when I go to warm my hands,
My clumsiness overturns the light,
And then I stumble
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