Famous Promptness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...enacing,
 silent—the mechanics, Manhattanese, western men, southerners, significant alike in
 their
 apathy, and in the promptness of their love? 
Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer,
 patcher,
 outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask’d anything of America? 
What mocking and scornful negligence?
The track strew’d with the dust of skeletons; 
By the roadside others disdainfully toss’d. 

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Rhymes and rhymers pas...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


The Summer that we did not prize

...so easy
Instructs us by departing now
And recognition lazy --

Bestirs itself -- puts on its Coat,
And scans with fatal promptness
For Trains that moment out of sight,
Unconscious of his smartness....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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