Famous Plain As Day Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Include Me Out

by Robert William Service
 I grabbed the new Who's Who to see
 My name - but it was not.
Said I: "The form they posted me
 I filled and sent - so what?"

I searched the essies," dour with doubt . . .
 Darn! It was plain as day
The scurvy knaves had left me out . . .
 Oh was I mad? I'll say.

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Young Night-Thought

by Robert Louis Stevenson
 All night long and every night, 
When my mama puts out the light, 
I see the people marching by, 
As plain as day before my eye. 

Armies and emperor and kings, 
All carrying different kinds of things, 
And marching in so grand a way, 
You never saw the like by day. 

So fine a show was never seen 
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