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Famous Remarking Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...turns the scale-- 
How we may lead a comfortable life, 
How suit our luggage to the cabin's size. 



Of course you are remarking all this time 
How narrowly and grossly I view life, 
Respect the creature-comforts, care to rule 
The masses, and regard complacently 
"The cabin," in our old phrase. Well, I do. 
I act for, talk for, live for this world now, 
As this world prizes action, life and talk: 
No prejudice to what next world may prove, 
Whose new laws and requirements, ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert



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Or Gaudier Brjeska a century earlier.



I stood by the shelves

Leafing through your books

With their worn covers,

Remarking the paucity

Of recent borrowings

And the ommisions

From the anthologies.

“I’m a bit out of fashion

But still bringing out books

Armitage didn’t put me in at all

The egregarious Silkin

Tried to get off with my wife -

May he rest in peace.





I can’t remember what angered me

About Geoffrey Hill, quite funny

In a nervous, melancholic way,...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
...
It's fifty pounds to one they'll hit me." 

So back towards the firing-line 
Our friend crept slowly to the rear-oh! 
Remarking "What a selfish swine! 
He might have let me be a hero."...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...he great O'Sullivan!" 

With weary steps and slow, 
With tears of sympathy 
Pro Bono Publico 
Went sadly home to tea. 

Remarking, as he went, 
With sad and mournful brow, 
"The cash that party spent -- 
I wish I had it now!"...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...Carlyle combined the lit'ry life
With throwing teacups at his wife,
Remarking, rather testily,
"Oh, stop your dodging, Mrs. C.!"...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy



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