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Famous Pretty Pretty Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Voznesensky, Andrei
...I started up the engine and I lingered. 
 Where should I go? The night was fine, I figured. 
 The bonnet trembled like a nervous hound. 
 I shivered. Night lit up the houses around. 
 The Balzac age, I felt its burning pain, 
 Chilled to the bone, I couldn't hold my own. 
 The age of balsam wine mixed with champaign!.. 

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by Blake, William
...Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
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by Lawrence, D. H.
...back streets just the same. 
The busy busy bourgeois imbibes his little share 
just the same 
if not more. 
The pretty pretty bourgeois pinks his language just as pink 
if not pinker, 
and in private boasts his exploits even louder, if you ask me, 
than the other. 
While as to honesty, Oh look where the money lies! 

So I can't see where the worm that has turned puts anything over 
the worm that is too cunning to turn. 
On the contrary, he merely gives himself...Read more of this...

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