Famous Ratified Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...ve you consider’d the organic compact of the first day of the first year of
 Independence, sign’d by the Commissioners, ratified by The States, and read by
 Washington
 at the head of the army? 
Have you possess’d yourself of the Federal Constitution? 
Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems
 and
 processes of Democracy? 
Are you faithful to things? do you teach as the land and sea, the bodies of men,
 womanhood,
 amativeness...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


I gave myself to Him --

...I gave myself to Him --
And took Himself, for Pay,
The solemn contract of a Life
Was ratified, this way --

The Wealth might disappoint --
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great Purchaser suspect,
The Daily Own -- of Love

Depreciate the Vision --
But till the Merchant buy --
Still Fable -- in the Isles of Spice --
The subtle Cargoes -- lie --

At least -- 'tis Mutual -- Risk --
Some -- found it -- Mutual Gain --
Sweet Debt of Life -- Each Ni...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

I worked for chaff and earning Wheat

...I worked for chaff and earning Wheat
Was haughty and betrayed.
What right had Fields to arbitrate
In matters ratified?

I tasted Wheat and hated Chaff
And thanked the ample friend --
Wisdom is more becoming viewed
At distance than at hand....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Meeting by Accident

...Meeting by Accident,
We hovered by design --
As often as a Century
An error so divine
Is ratified by Destiny,
But Destiny is old
And economical of Bliss
As Midas is of Gold --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy

...d Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life, liberty,
 equality of
 man, 
Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and
 white
 by the Commissioners, and read by Washington at the head of the army, 
Remember the purposes of the founders,—Remember Washington;
Remember the copious humanity streaming from every direction toward America; 
Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and men; (Cursed be nation, woman, man,
 without h...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Prayer of Columbus

...isionary meditations; 
Thou knowest how, before I commenced, I devoted all to come to Thee; 
Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows, and strictly kept them; 
Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee; 
(In shackles, prison’d, in disgrace, repining not,
Accepting all from Thee—as duly come from Thee.) 

All my emprises have been fill’d with Thee, 
My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee, 
Sailing the deep, or journeyin...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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