Famous Priority Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Priority poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous priority poems. These examples illustrate what a famous priority poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Burns, Robert
...ove the head of the door; and the Christian names of the people whom chance brings into the house are, according to the priority of placing the “runts,” the names in question.—R. B. [back]
Note 6. They go to the barnyard, and pull each, at three different times, a stalk of oats. If the third stalk wants the “top-pickle,” that is, the grain at the top of the stalk, the party in question will come to the marriage-bed anything but a maid.—R. B. [b...Read more of this...
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Frost, Robert
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"You know we might not be and still be cousins:
The town is full of Chases, Lowes, and Baileys,
All claiming some priority in Starkness.
My mother was a Lane, yet might have married
Anyone upon earth and still her children
Would have been Starks, and doubtless here to-day."
"You riddle with your genealogy
Like a Viola. I don't follow you."
"I only mean my mother was a Stark
Several times over, and by marrying father
No more than brought us back i...Read more of this...
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