Famous Proximity Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Avons Harvest

...ealed 
Itself the proper spawning-ground of pity. 
But so it was. Pity, or something like it, 
Was in the poison of his proximity; 
For nothing else that I have any name for
Could have invaded and so mastered me 
With a slow tolerance that eventually 
Assumed a blind ascendency of custom 
That saw not even itself. When I came in, 
Often I’d find him strewn along my couch
Like an amorphous lizard with its clothes on, 
Reading a book and waiting for its dinner. 
His clothes wer...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


How To Write The Great American Indian Novel

...same visions
if they are in love with Indians. If a white person loves an Indian

then the white person is Indian by proximity. White people must carry
an Indian deep inside themselves. Those interior Indians are half-breed

and obviously from horse cultures. If the interior Indian is male
then he must be a warrior, especially if he is inside a white man.

If the interior Indian is female, then she must be a healer, especially if she is inside
a white woman. Sometim...Read more of this...
by Alexie, Sherman

Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America

...ng. Please

rush details in your next effort. Slit-trench, pith helmet,

slingshot, biffy and if so number of holes and proximity of

keester to vermin and deposits of prior users."



 --From a Letter by a Friend



 Sheep. Everything smelled of sheep on Paradise Creek,

but there were no sheep in sight. I fished down from the

ranger station where there was a huge monument to the Civi-

lian Conservation Corps.

 It was a twelve-foot high marble statue of a young man

walki...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Proximity

...I KNOW not, wherefore, dearest love,

Thou often art so strange and coy
When 'mongst man's busy haunts we move,

Thy coldness puts to flight my joy.
But soon as night and silence round us reign,
I know thee by thy kisses sweet again!

1789.*...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Proximity Of The Beloved One

...I THINK of thee, whene'er the sun his beams

O'er ocean flings;
I think of thee, whene'er the moonlight gleams

In silv'ry springs.

I see thee, when upon the distant ridge

The dust awakes;
At midnight's hour, when on the fragile bridge

The wanderer quakes.

I hear thee, when yon billows rise on high,

With murmur deep.
To tread the silent grove oft wand...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang


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