Famous Papered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Kitchen Chimney

by Robert Frost
 Builder, in building the little house,
In every way you may please yourself;
But please please me in the kitchen chimney:
Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.

However far you must go for bricks,
Whatever they cost a-piece or a pound,
But me enough for a full-length chimney,
And build the chimney clear from the ground.

It's not that I'm greatly afraid of fire,
But I...Read more of this...

The Hermit

by Aleister Crowley
 WHAT moves that lonely man is not the boom 
Of waves that break agains the cliff so strong; 
Nor roar of thunder, when that travelling voice 
Is caught by rocks that carry far along.

'Tis not the groan of oak tree i its prime, 
When lightning strikes its solid heart to dust; 
Nor frozen pond when, melted by the sun,...Read more of this...

The Break Away

by Anne Sexton
 Your daisies have come
on the day of my divorce:
the courtroom a cement box,
a gas chamber for the infectious Jew in me
and a perhaps land, a possibly promised land
for the Jew in me,
but still a betrayal room for the till-death-do-us—
and yet a death, as in the unlocking of scissors
that makes the now separate parts useless,
even to cut each other up...Read more of this...

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