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Famous Pull Away Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
...in command was blear-eyed Ned:
While the surgeon his limb 
was a-lopping,
A nine-pounder came and smack went his head,
Pull away, pull away, pull 
away! I say;
Rare news for my Meg of Wapping!"
Every Sunday
People come in crowds
(After church-time, of course)
In curricles, and gigs, and wagons,
And some have brought cold chicken and flagons
Of wine,
And beer in stoppered jugs.
"Dear! Dear! But I tell 'ee 'twill be a fine 
ship.
There's none finer in any of the slips ...Read more of this...



by Killigrew, Anne
...whether thou or Blind, or Cruel art, 
Whether 'tis Chance, or Malice, guides thy Dart, 
Thou from the Parents Arms dost pull away
The hopeful Child, their Ages only stay:
The Two, whom Friendship in dear Bands has ty'd,
Thou dost with a remorseless hand devide;
Friendship, the Cement, that does faster twine
Two Souls, than that which Soul and Body joyn:
Thousands have been, who their own Blood did spill, 
But never any yet his Friend did kill. 
Then 'gainst thy Dart what ...Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert
..." 
"It's hard to tell you how I managed it. 
When I saw the shaft had me by the coat, 
I didn't try too long to pull away, 
Or fumble for my knife to cut away, 
I just embraced the shaft and rode it out-- 
Till Weiss shut off the water in the wheel-pit. 
That's how I think I didn't lose my head. 
But my legs got their knocks against the ceiling." 
"Awful. Why didn't they throw off the belt 
Instead of going clear down in the wheel-pit?" 
"They say some...Read more of this...

by Szymborska, Wislawa
...dances.
Yet the movement of the hands in protecting the head is the same.
The body writhes, jerks and tries to pull away,
its legs give out, it falls, the knees fly up,
it turns blue, swells, salivates and bleeds. 

Nothing has changed. Except for the course of boundaries,
the line of forests, coasts, deserts and glaciers.
Amid these landscapes traipses the soul,
disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away,
alien to itself, elusive, at times certain,...Read more of this...

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