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Famous Portholes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hughes, Ted
...n through her heart he kept on 

And it was cosy in the rocket, he could not see much 
But he peered out through the portholes at Creation 

And saw the stars millions of miles away 
And saw the future and the universe 

Opening and opening 
And kept on and slept and at last 

Crashed on the moon awoke and crawled out 

Under his mother's buttocks. ...Read more of this...



by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...ith the gale. 

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This was that fell capsize,
As half she had righted and hoped to rise
 Death teeming in by her portholes
Raced down decks, round messes of mortals. 

 11

Then a lurch forward, frigate and men;
'All hands for themselves' the cry ran then;
 But she who had housed them thither
Was around them, bound them or wound them with her. 

 12

Marcus Hare, high her captain,
Kept to her—care-drowned and wrapped in
 Cheer's death, would follow
His charge t...Read more of this...

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