Famous Rehearsals Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Wild Oats

by Philip Larkin
 About twenty years ago
Two girls came in where I worked -
A bosomy English rose
And her friend in specs I could talk to.
Faces in those days sparked
The whole shooting-match off, and I doubt
If ever one had like hers:
But it was the friend I took out,

And in seven years after that
Wrote over four hundred letters,
Gave a ten-guinea ring
I got back in...Read more of this...

Divina Commedia

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 Oft have I seen at some cathedral door 
.
A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, 
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Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet 
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Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor 
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Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er; 
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Far off the noises of the world retreat; 
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The loud vociferations of the street 
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Become an undistinguishable roar. 
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So, as I...Read more of this...

A Distance From The Sea

by Weldon Kees
 To Ernest Brace

"And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was
about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and
write them not." --REVELATIONS, x, 4.

That raft we rigged up, under the water,
Was just the item: when he walked,
With his robes blowing, dark against the sky,
It...Read more of this...

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