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Famous Processes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...at the head of the army? 
Have you possess’d yourself of the Federal Constitution? 
Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems
 and
 processes of Democracy? 
Are you faithful to things? do you teach as the land and sea, the bodies of men,
 womanhood,
 amativeness, angers, teach?
Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities? 
Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are
 you
 ver...Read more of this...



by Dickinson, Emily
...Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays.

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust --

Ruin is formal -- Devil's work
Consecutive and slow --
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping -- is Crash's law....Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...the sciences, 
It is the fulness, color, form, diversity of the earth, and of men and women, and of all
 qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth—it is greater than buildings, ships, religions, paintings,
 music. 

Great is the English speech—what speech is so great as the English? 
Great is the English brood—what brood has so vast a destiny as the English? 
It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule; 
The new rule shall rule as th...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...s—all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds, 
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes—the fishes, the brutes,
All men and women—me also; 
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages; 
All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe, or any globe; 
All lives and deaths—all of the past, present, future; 
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d, and shall forever span them, and
 compactly hol...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...ver saw!
Ye living ones, ye are fools indeed
Who do not know the ways of the wind
And the unseen forces
That govern the processes of life....Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...l be dried, clean’d, ginn’d, baled, spun into thread and cloth, before you: 
You shall see hands at work at all the old processes, and all the new ones;
You shall see the various grains, and how flour is made, and then bread baked by the
 bakers; 
You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become
 bullion; 
You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing stick is; 
You shall mark, in amazement, the Hoe press whirlin...Read more of this...

by Seeger, Alan
...rest, 
Now that the cream has been skimmed off in you. 
War has its horrors, but has this of good -- 
That its sure processes sort out and bind 
Brave hearts in one intrepid brotherhood 
And leave the shams and imbeciles behind. 
Now turn we joyful to the great attacks, 
Not only that we face in a fair field 
Our valiant foe and all his deadly tools, 
But also that we turn disdainful backs 
On that poor world we scorn yet die to shield -- 
That world of cowards, hypoc...Read more of this...

by Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)
...s, 

Love, which still pours into its ancient mould 
The lashing seed that grows to a man again, 
From whom by the same processes unfold 
Unending generations of living men. 

She has standardized his ultimate needs and pains. 
Lost tribes in a lost language mutter in 
His dreams: his science is tethered to their brains, 
His guilt merely repeats Original Sin. 

And beauty standing motionless before 
Her mirror sees behind her, mile on mile, 
A long queue in an un...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo,
His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do,
And can logically predicate his finish by his start;
But the English--ah, the English!--they are quite a race apart.

Their psychology is bovine, their outlook crude and raw.
They abandon vital matters to be tickled with a straw;
But the straw that they were tickled with-the chaff that they were fed wit...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...that were it not
For an Eternity --
I fear me this Circumference
Engross my Finity --

To His exclusion, who prepare
By Processes of Size
For the Stupendous Vision
Of his diameters --...Read more of this...

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