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Famous Phrasing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...and I approve 
Your fealty to the aggregated greatness 
Of him you lean on while he leans on you. 

HAMILTON

This easy phrasing is a game of yours
That you may win to lose. I beg your pardon, 
But you that have the sight will not employ 
The will to see with it. If you did so, 
There might be fewer ditches dug for others 
In your perspective; and there might be fewer
Contemporary motes of prejudice 
Between you and the man who made the dust. 
Call him a genius or a gentleman...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...e ins and outs of life
strove to prime mortality afresh
beyond behaviour - scraped clay
to let creation loose in its re-phrasing...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg
...made for her. 
His love had been so much the life of her,
And hers had been so much the life of him, 
That any wayward phrasing on his part 
Would have had no moment. Neither had lived enough 
To know the book, albeit one of them 
Had grown enough to write it. There it was,
However, though he knew not why it was: 
There was the book, but it was not for her, 
For she was dead. And yet, there was the book. 

Thus would his fancy circle out and out, 
And out and in again, till ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
.... 
We can laugh at anything. 

And we forget no one. 
She listens to mother 
on the phone, and he remembers 

the exact phrasing of a child's sorrows, 
the oaths taken by bear and tiger 
never to forgive. 

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On Sunday we're having a party. 
The children are taken away 
in a black Dodge, their faces erased 

from the mirrors. Outside a scum 
is forming on the afternoon. 
A car parks but no one gets out. 

Brother is loading the fridge. 
Sister is polishing and spraying hers...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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