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Famous Recognizing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...gers pass but a song lives
Feeding the eternal flame 

New minds, burning
Eyes, eager to hear, inflaming

Beauty, recognizing the spark
Shyly from afar seducing

Beauty, feeding the flame
Eyes feeding the beauty

The source of fire—an omnipotent eye
Hearing with eyes, seeing with ears ...Read more of this...
by Stojanovic, Dejan



...g in it, 
Found a few flaws in my tight mail of hate
And slowly pricked a poison into me 
In which at first I failed at recognizing 
An unfamiliar subtle sort of pity. 
But so it was, and I believe he knew it; 
Though even to dream it would have been absurd—
Until I knew it, and there was no need 
Of dreaming. For the fellow’s indolence, 
And his malignant oily swarthiness 
Housing a reptile blood that I could see 
Beneath it, like hereditary venom
Out of old human swamps, ha...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ings to be now retold? 
 Drink of the darkness—greedy of the ill 
 To which from habit you're attracted still, 
 Not recognizing in the draught you take 
 The stench that your atrocities must make. 
 I only tell you that this burdened age 
 Tires of your Highnesses, that soil its page, 
 And of your villanies—and this is why 
 You now must swell the stream that passes by 
 Of refuse filth. Oh, horrid scene to show 
 Of these young men and that young girl just now! 
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by Hugo, Victor
...Smiling back from Coronation
May be Luxury --
On the Heads that started with us --
Being's Peasantry --

Recognizing in Procession
Ones We former knew --
When Ourselves were also dusty --
Centuries ago --

Had the Triumph no Conviction
Of how many be --
Stimulated -- by the Contrast --
Unto Misery --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily
...dead land, mixing' 
My thoughts, my longings, my love 
For something that didn't need naming 
In the misty mornings, recognizing 
The dew on the petal, alive yet sleepy; 
I was a dreamer, I admit, thinking, 
April is the cruelest month, flying 

Thoughts about some distant teaching, 
Seeing invisible in the visible, loving 
Wild thoughts making love, searching 
To find it; love was a secret hard to decode— 
Sacred to me. Students talking 
Of business, Dante and M...Read more of this...
by Stojanovic, Dejan



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