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Famous Passings Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...shine glowing 
Had melted all Kiandra's snow 
And set the river going. 

And in the news, perhaps you read: 
`Stock passings. Puckawidgee, 
Fat cattle: Seven hundred head 
Swept down the Murrumbidgee; 
Their destination's quite obscure, 
But, somehow, there's a notion, 
Unless the river falls, they're sure 
To reach the Southern Ocean.' 

So after that I'll give it best; 
No more with Fate I'll battle. 
I'll let the river take the rest, 
For those were all my ...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...myself. 
She lives in Castle Perilous: a river 
Runs in three loops about her living-place; 
And o'er it are three passings, and three knights 
Defend the passings, brethren, and a fourth 
And of that four the mightiest, holds her stayed 
In her own castle, and so besieges her 
To break her will, and make her wed with him: 
And but delays his purport till thou send 
To do the battle with him, thy chief man 
Sir Lancelot whom he trusts to overthrow, 
Then wed, with glory:...Read more of this...

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