Famous Procreation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Spontaneous Me

by Walt Whitman
 SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, 
The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, 
The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder, 
The hill-side whiten’d with blossoms of the mountain ash, 
The same, late in autumn—the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark
 green,
The rich coverlid of the grass—animals and birds—the private untrimm’d
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To Oratists

by Walt Whitman
 TO oratists—to male or female, 
Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words. 
Are you full-lung’d and limber-lipp’d from long trial? from vigorous practice?
 from
 physique? 
Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they? 
Come duly to the divine power to use words?

For only at last, after many years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence,
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Procreation

by Robert William Service
 It hurts my pride that I should be
 The issue of a night of lust;
Yet even Bishops, you'll agree,
 Obey the biologic 'must';
Though no doubt with more dignity
 Than we of layman dust.

I think the Lord made a mistake
 When he designed the human race,
That man and angel in the make
 Should have brutality for base.
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Archaic Torso Of Apollo

by Rainer Maria Rilke
 We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

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From Pent-up Aching Rivers

by Walt Whitman
 FROM pent-up, aching rivers; 
From that of myself, without which I were nothing; 
From what I am determin’d to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men; 
From my own voice resonant—singing the phallus, 
Singing the song of procreation,
Singing the need of superb children, and therein superb grown people, 
Singing the muscular urge and the blending, 
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