Famous Quarterly Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Quarterly poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous quarterly poems. These examples illustrate what a famous quarterly poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...Who killed John Keats?
'I,' says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
''Twas one of my feats.'
Who shot the arrow?
'The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man),
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Byron, George (Lord)
...ra while I read
Endless analytic texts, tomes of French poems to translate,
A notorious weekly newsletter to edit, a quarterly to write reviews for
And – I must confess – cable TV so I can access Starsky and Hutch.
I need a cottage in Haworth to go with the wife,
Companion or whatever, to see with me the changing
Seasons of heather from purple September glory
To the browns of winter and wisps of summer green
And meet with Michael Haslam, fellow poet,
Maestro of the...Read more of this...
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Tebb, Barry
...Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:
'Why do you let me lie here wastefully?
I am all you never had of goods and sex,
You could get them still by writing a few cheques.'
So I look at others, what they do with theirs:
They certainly don't keep it upstairs.
By now they've a second house and car and wife:
Clearly money has something to do with life
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Larkin, Philip
...Of the crows—may they heap on the rocks till they loom
Like a mountain, befitting a colossus' tomb!
Foreign Quarterly Review (adapted)
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Hugo, Victor
...s intoxicated with my joy
When o'er my white beard ran his rosy hands,
Thrilling me all through.
Foreign Quarterly Review.
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Hugo, Victor
...ies;
"Hush!" the angel says,
On his lip he lays
One finger, one displays
His native skies.
Foreign Quarterly Review
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Hugo, Victor
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