Famous Pungency Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Rosemary

by Marianne Moore
 Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary - 
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -
born of the sea supposedly, 
at Christmas each, in company, 
braids a garland of festivity.
Not always rosemary - 

since the flight to Egypt, blooming indifferently. 
With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath,
its flowers - white originally - 
turned blue. The herb of memory,
imitating the...Read more of this...

Magpiety

by Philip Levine
 You pull over to the shoulder
 of the two-lane
road and sit for a moment wondering
 where you were going
in such a hurry. The valley is burned
 out, the oaks
dream day and night of rain
 that never comes.
At noon or just before noon
 the short shadows
are gray and hold what little
 life survives.
In the still heat the engine
 clicks, although
the...Read more of this...

Out oDoors

by Lucy Maud Montgomery
 There's a gypsy wind across the harvest land,
Let us fare forth with it lightly hand in hand;
Where cloud shadows blow across the sunwarm waste,
And the first red leaves are falling let us haste,
For the waning days are lavish of their stores,
And the joy of life is with us out o' doors! 

Let us roam along the ways of golden...Read more of this...

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