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Famous Ruminations Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ink 
That I will have a drop of cider, also.” 

They marched away together towards the house
And left me to my childish ruminations 
Upon the ways of men. I followed them 
Down cellar with my fancy, and then left them 
For a fairer vision of all things at once 
That was anon to be destroyed again
By the sound of voices and of heavy feet— 
One of the sounds of life that I remember, 
Though I forget so many that rang first 
As if they were thrown down to me from Sinai. 

So I r...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...rporation. He would pause
 At his favorite fundamentally sound
 Park bench, which had been the birthplace
Of paeans and ruminations on other mornings,
 And would turn his back to it, having gauged the distance
 Between his knees and the edge of the hardwood
Almost invariably unoccupied
 At this enlightened hour by the bums of nighttime
 (For whom the owlish eye of the moon
Had been closed by daylight), and would give himself wholly over
 Backwards and trustingly downwards
 An...Read more of this...
by Wagoner, David

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