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Famous Raiser Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e buildings that last longer than any; 
Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindostanee; 
Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi—served those whose relics remain in Central
 America;
Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars, and the druids; 
Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover’d hills of
 Scandinavia; 
Served those who, time out of mind, made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun,
 moon,
 stars, ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...little lily-handed Baronet he, 
A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, 
A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, 
A raiser of huge melons and of pine, 
A patron of some thirty charities, 
A pamphleteer on guano and on grain, 
A quarter-sessions chairman, abler none; 
Fair-haired and redder than a windy morn; 
Now shaking hands with him, now him, of those 
That stood the nearest--now addressed to speech-- 
Who spoke few words and pithy, such as closed 
Welcome, farewell, a...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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