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Famous Placidity Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Owen, Wilfred
...is not vital overmuch;
Dying, not mortal overmuch;
Nor sad, nor proud,
Nor curious at all.
He cannot tell
Old men's placidity from his.


 VI

But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,
That they should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever share...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...,
Until it wake from Winter sleep
 And button buds begin to peep.
Then broad leaves come to shelter me
 In luminous placidity.
Then figs will ripen with a rush
 And brash will come the thrush.

But what care I though birds destroy
My fruit,--they pay me back with joy....Read more of this...

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