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Famous Razors Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Betjeman, John
...lley
And chemical valley
Laid out in the light;
On ugly and pretty
Where industry thrives
In this hill-shadowed city
Of razors and knives....Read more of this...



by Jong, Erica
...was.

Cold sex.
A woman has to die
& be exhumed
four times a week
to know the meaning of it.

His hips are razors
his pelvic bones are knives,
even his elbows could cut butter.

Cold flows from his mouth
like a cloud of carbon dioxide.
Hie ***** is pure dry ice
which turns to smoke.
His face hands over my face-
An ice carving.

One of these days
he'll shatter
or
he'll melt....Read more of this...

by Raleigh, Sir Walter
...en will be 
All that shall remain of me! 
Shelves of books I never read, 
Piles of bills, undocketed, 
Shaving-brushes, razors, strops, 
Bottles that have lost their tops, 
Boxes full of odds and ends, 
Letters from departed friends, 
Faded ties and broken braces 
Tucked away in secret places, 
Baggy trousers, ragged coats, 
Stacks of ancient lecture-notes, 
And that ghostliest of shows, 
Boots and shoes in horrid rows. 
Though they are of cheerful mind, 
My lovers, whom ...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...them?) 

I am not the poet of goodness only—I do not decline to be the poet of
 wickedness also. 

Washes and razors for foofoos—for me freckles and a bristling beard. 

What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? 
Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me—I stand indifferent;
My gait is no fault-finder’s or rejecter’s gait; 
I moisten the roots of all that has grown. 

Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy? 
Did you gue...Read more of this...

by Lowell, Amy
...
There lay knives sharpened to any use,
The keenest lancet, and the obtuse
And blunted pruning bill-hook; blades
Of razors, scalpels, shears; cascades
Of penknives, with handles of mother-of-pearl,
And scythes, and sickles, and scissors; a whirl
Of points and edges, and underneath
Shot the gleam of a saw with bristling teeth.
My head grew dizzy, I seemed to hear
A battle-cry from somewhere near,
The clash of arms, and the squeal of balls,
And the echoless thud when a ...Read more of this...



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