Famous Propinquity Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 XLI

I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear you body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clairfy the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however,...Read more of this...

A Bronze Head

by William Butler Yeats
 Here at right of the entrance this bronze head,
Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye,
Everything else withered and mummy-dead.
What great tomb-haunter sweeps the distant sky
(Something may linger there though all else die;)
And finds there nothing to make its tetror less
Hysterica passio of its own emptiness?

No dark tomb-haunter once; her form all full
As though with magnanimity of light,
Yet a most gentle...Read more of this...

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