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Famous Personify Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hugo, Victor
...ht from reflected suns of bright Castile. 
 The chime, the clinking chime! To Fancy's eye— 
 Prompt her affections to personify— 
 It is the fresh and frolic hour, arrayed 
 In guise of Andalusian dancing maid, 
 Appealing by a crevice fine and rare, 
 As of a door oped in "th' incorporal air." 
 She comes! o'er drowsy roofs, inert and dull, 
 Shaking her lap, of silv'ry music full, 
 Rousing without remorse the drones abed, 
 Tripping like joyous bird with tiniest ...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...ivisible destiny and Union. 

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And by the spells which ye vouchsafe,
To those, your ministers in earnest, 
I here personify and call my themes, 
To make them pass before ye. 

Behold, America! (And thou, ineffable Guest and Sister!) 
For thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands:
Behold! thy fields and farms, thy far-off woods and mountains, 
As in procession coming. 

Behold! the sea itself! 
And on its limitless, heaving breast, thy ships: 
See! where the...Read more of this...

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