Famous Postponement Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Postponement poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous postponement poems. These examples illustrate what a famous postponement poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word,
Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird,
Reached me on wind-wafts; and thus I heard,
Wearily waiting:--
"I planned her a nest in a leafless tree,
But the passers eyed and twitted me,
And said: 'How reckless a bird is he,
Cheerily mating!'
"Fear-filled, I stayed me till summer-tide,
In lewth of leaves to throne ...Read more of this...
by
Hardy, Thomas
...fe.
The change has come, and who would say
"I would it were not come to-day"?
What were the respite till to-morrow?
Postponement of a certain sorrow,
From which each passing day would borrow!
Let grief be dumb,
[Pg 59]The change has come.
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by
Laurence Dunbar, Paul
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