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Famous Richmond Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Ginsberg, Allen
...ay 9, 1956, the 
 second hand moving forward, red. 
Getting ready to load my last bus.-Farewell, Walnut 
 Creek Richmond Vallejo Portland Pacific 
 Highway 
Fleet-footed Quicksilver, God of transience. 
One last package sits lone at midnight sticking up out 
 of the Coast rack high as the dusty fluorescent 
 light. 

The wage they pay us is too low to live on. Tragedy 
 reduced to numbers. 
This for the poor shepherds. I am a communist. 
Farewe...Read more of this...



by Smart, Christopher
...red colour. 

Let Lenox, house of Lenox rejoice with Achnas the Wild Pear Tree. God be gracious to the Duke of Richmond. 

Let Altham, house of Altham rejoice with the Everlasting Apple-Tree. 

Let Travell, house of Travell rejoice with Ciborium The Egyptian Bean. 

Let Tyers, house of Tyers rejoice with Ægilops a kind of bulbous root. God give good will to Jonathan Tyers and his family this day. All Saints. N.S. 1762. 

Let Clever...Read more of this...

by Marvell, Andrew
...yet itself does please, 
(And female Stuart there rules the four seas), 
But fate does still accumulate our woes, 
And Richmond her commands, as Ruyter those. 

After this loss, to relish discontent, 
Someone must be accused by punishment. 
All our miscarriages on Pett must fall: 
His name alone seems fit to answer all. 
Whose counsel first did this mad war beget? 
Who all commands sold through the navy? Pett. 
Who would not follow when the Dutch were beat? 
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by Melville, Herman
...in their mouth,
Others with fixed arms lifted South - 
Invoking so
The cypress glades? Ah wilds of woe!

The spires of Richmond, late beheld
Through rifts in musket-haze,
Were closed from view in clouds of dust
On leaf-walled ways,
Where streamed our wagons in caravan;
And the Seven Nights and Days
Of march and fast, retreat and fight,
Pinched our grimed faces to ghastly plight - 
Does the elm wood
Recall the haggard beards of blood?

The battle-smoked flag, with stars eclip...Read more of this...

by Bukowski, Charles
...with a cigarette
might cause 5 fire
 engines and
 33 men.

I can't
 do
 any
 thing.

but p.s. -- Hector Richmond in the next
tomb thinks only of Mozart and candy
caterpillars.
 he is
 very bad
 company....Read more of this...



by Lawson, Henry
...From Woolwich and Brentford and Stamford Hill, from Richmond into the Strand, 
Oh, the Cockney soul is a silent soul – as it is in every land! 
But out on the sand with a broken band it's sarcasm spurs them through; 
And, with never a laugh, in a gale and a half, 'tis the Cockney cheers the crew. 

Oh, send them a tune from the music-halls with a chorus to shake the sky! 
Oh, give them a deep-sea chanty n...Read more of this...

by Wordsworth, William
...eams so sweet,  Though grief and pain may come to-morrow? LINES  Written near Richmond upon the Thames.   Glide gently, thus for ever glide,  O Thames! that other bards may see,  As lovely visions by thy side  As now, fair river! come to me.  Oh glide, fair stream! for ever so;  Thy quiet soul on all bestowing,  'Till all o...Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...290
            Wallala leialala

  "Trams and dusty trees.
  Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
  Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
  Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe."

  "My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart
  Under my feet. After the event
  He wept. He promised 'a new start'.
  I made no comment. What should I resent?"
  "On Margate Sands.                                              ...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...mpets of the Lancer Corps 
Sound a loud reveille; 
Sound it over Sydney shore, 
Send the message far and wide 
Down the Richmond River side. 
Boot and Saddle, mount and ride, 
Sound a loud reveille. 
Whither go ye, Lancers gay, 
With your bold reveille? 
O'er the ocean far away 
From your sunny southern home, 
Over leagues of trackless foam 
In a foreign land to roam, 
With your bold reveille. 

When we hear our brethren call, 
Sound a clear reveille. 
Then we...Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...am
 The peal of bells
 White towers
 Weialala leia 
 Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe."
"My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart
Under my feet. After the event
He wept. He promised 'a new start'.
I made no comment. What should I resent?"
"On Margate Sands. 
I can connect
Nothing with nothing.
The broken fingernails of d...Read more of this...

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