Famous Prong Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Fish Answers

...ly divided from the breast below! 
Thou that on dry land horribly dost go 
With a split body and most ridiculous pace, 
Prong after prong, disgracer of all grace, 
Long-useless-finned, haired, upright, unwet, slow! 

O breather of unbreathable, sword-sharp air, 
How canst exist? How bear thyself, thou dry 
And dreary sloth? WHat particle canst share 
Of the only blessed life, the watery? 
I sometimes see of ye an actual pair 
Go by! linked fin by fin! most odiously....Read more of this...
by Hunt, James Henry Leigh


Birthday (Autobiography)

...pound baby with a big head,
Her first, it was plain torture. Finally they used the forceps
And dragged me out, with one prong
In my right eye, and slapped and banged me until I breathed.
I am not particularly grateful for it.

As to the eye: it remained invalid and now has a cataract.
It can see gods and spirits in its cloud,
And the weird end of the world: the left one's for common daylight.

As to my mother:
A rather beautiful young woman married to a grim clergyman
Twenty-...Read more of this...
by Jeffers, Robinson

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

...nok’s shore! 
I wait and I wait, till you blow my mate to me. 

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Yes, when the stars glisten’d,
All night long, on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake, 
Down, almost amid the slapping waves, 
Sat the lone singer, wonderful, causing tears. 

He call’d on his mate; 
He pour’d forth the meanings which I, of all men, know.

Yes, my brother, I know; 
The rest might not—but I have treasur’d every note; 
For once, and more than once, dimly, down to the beach gliding, 
Silent, avoid...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Death of the Hired Man

...olin
Because he liked it -- that an argument!
He said he couldn't make the boy believe
He could find water with a hazel prong--
Which showed how much good school had ever done
him. He wanted to go over that. 'But most of all
He thinks if he could have another chance
To teach him how to build a load of hay --'
'I know, that's Silas' one accomplishment.
He bundles every forkful in its place,
And tags and numbers it for future reference,
So he can find and easily dislodge it
In ...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

The First Walpurgis-night

...ng wise,
Yon dull Christian priests surprise
With the devil of their talk

We'll those very priests confound.
Come with prong, and come with fork.

Raise a wild and rattling sound
Through the livelong night, and prowl

All the rocky passes round.
Screechowl, owl,
Join in chorus with our howl!

CHORUS OF WATCHERS.

Come with prong, and come with fork,
Like the devil of their talk,
And with wildly rattling sound,
Prowl the desert rocks around!
Screechowl, owl,
Join in chorus wi...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang


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