Famous Realise Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Daughter

...Why is the world at peace.
This may astonish you a little but when you realise how
easily Mrs. Charles Bianco sells the work of American
painters to American millionaires you will recognize that
authorities are constrained to be relieved. Let me tell you a
story. A painter loved a woman. A musician did not sing.
A South African loved books. An American was a woman
and needed help. Are Americans the same as incubators.
But this ...Read more of this...
by Stein, Gertrude


My Vineyard

...them in ruby wine;
For they themselves,--although it odd is,
Somehow give me a sense that God is.

Because we trust and realise
His love he steers us in the skies.
For faith however foolish can
Be mighty helpful to a man:
And as I tend my vines so He
With tenderness looks after me....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Strip Teaser

...onstrances we make
She presently decides to take
 Off something more.

Her pinafore she next unties,
And then before we realise,
 Her dress drops down;
Her panties and her brassiere,
Her chemise and her underwear
 Are round her strown.

And now she dances all about,
As naked as a new-caught trout,
 With impish glee;
And though she's beautiful like that,
(A cherubim, but not so fat),
 Quite shocked are we.

And so we dread with dim dismay
Some day she may her charms display
 I...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Building

...ther, guessing; on the way
Someone's wheeled past, in washed-to-rags ward clothes:
They see him, too. They're quiet. To realise
This new thing held in common makes them quiet,
For past these doors are rooms, and rooms past those,
And more rooms yet, each one further off

And harder to return from; and who knows
Which he will see, and when? For the moment, wait,
Look down at the yard. Outside seems old enough:
Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it
Out to the car p...Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

The Mad Gardeners Song

...ht he saw an Elephant,
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
'At length I realise,' he said,
The bitterness of Life!'

He thought he saw a Buffalo
Upon the chimney-piece:
He looked again, and found it was
His Sister's Husband's Niece.
'Unless you leave this house,' he said,
"I'll send for the Police!'

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
'The one ...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


The Nowhere Man

...this
cataclysmic despair.  Let us pretend tonight that
you are mine.  Forever.  For when daybreak returns, we
shall realise once more that forever means an
empty room, a tired night swirling into nowhere,
when I shore up to your tattered skyline.

2
At midnight I move in on strangers, for the caress
or the kill.  I have come to terms with shadows,
I have been assaulted by gentler lovetimes: once
in a long while a face comes near, our eyes meet
in challenge, or is...Read more of this...
by Nandy, Pritish

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