Famous Propagating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Song To David

...h expect, 
For all and each thy love direct, 
 And render as you reap. 

 XLVII 
The slander and its bearer spurn, 
And propagating praise sojourn 
 To make thy welcome last; 
Turn from Old Adam to the New; 
By hope futurity pursue; 
 Look upwards to the past. 

 XLVIII 
Control thine eye, salute success, 
Honor the wiser, happier bless, 
 And for thy neighbor feel; 
Grutch not of Mammon and his leav'n,
Work emulation up to heav'n 
 By knowledge and by zeal. 

 XLIX 
O DAVID,...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher


Pan and Luna

...chalk 
From tinge on fleece, should still display a tongue 
Black 'neath the beast's moist palate, prompt men balk 
The propagating plague: he gets no young: 
They rather slay him,--sell his hide to calk 
Ships with, first steeped with pitch,--nor hands are wrung 
In sorrow for his fate: protected thus, 
The purity we loved is gained for us. So did girl-Moon, by just her attribute 
Of unmatched modesty betrayed, lie trapped, 
Bruised to the breast of Pan, half god half brute,...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Conjugation of the Paramecium

...This has nothing
to do with
propagating

The species
is continued
as so many are
(among the smaller creatures)
by fission

(and this species
is very small
next in order to
the amoeba, the beginning one)

The paramecium
achieves, then,
immortality
by dividing

But when
the paramecium
desires renewal
strength another joy
this is what 
the paramecium does:

The paramecium
lies down beside...Read more of this...
by Rukeyser, Muriel

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