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Famous Remembrance Day Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Requiem

by Akhmatova, Anna

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Through which one hundred million people scream;
That's how I wish them to remember me when I am dead
On the eve of my remembrance day.
If someone someday in this country
Decides to raise a memorial to me,
I give my consent to this festivity
But only on this condition - do not build it
By the sea where I was born,
I have severed my last ties with the sea;
Nor in the Tsar's Park by the hallowed stump
Where an inconsolable shadow looks for me;
Build it here where I stood f...Read more of this...

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