Famous Proposing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Child of Europe

...len doctrines in secret.

He who has power, has it by historical logic.
Respectfully bow to that logic.

Let your lips, proposing a hypothesis
Not know about the hand faking the experiment.

Let your hand, faking the experiment
No know about the lips proposing a hypothesis.

Learn to predict a fire with unerring precision
Then burn the house down to fulfill the prediction.

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a single grain of truth.
Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...Read more of this...
by Milosz, Czeslaw


Samuel Sewall

...Widow Gibbs,
A pious lady of charm and notable bust,
Whose heart beat tolerably beneath her ribs.

On Saturday he wrote proposing marriage,
And closed, imploring that she be not cruel,
"Your favorable answer will oblige,
Madam, your humble servant, Samuel Sewall."...Read more of this...
by Hecht, Anthony

War Profit Litany

...parate listed, those who drop Amphetamine with
 military, gossip, argue, and persuade
suggesting policy naming language proposing strategy, this
 done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon, consul-
 tants to military, paid by their industry:
and these are the names of the generals & captains mili-
 tary, who know thus work for war goods manufactur-
 ers;
and above these, listed, the names of the banks, combines,
 investment trusts that control these industries:
and these are the...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

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