Famous Persistency Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Tortoise Gallantry

by D. H. Lawrence
 Making his advances
He does not look at her, nor sniff at her,
No, not even sniff at her, his nose is blank.
Only he senses the vulnerable folds of skin
That work beneath her while she sprawls along
In her ungainly pace,
Her folds of skin that work and row
Beneath the earth-soiled hovel in which she moves.

And so he strains beneath her housey wall,
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