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Famous Run A Mile Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by McGough, Roger
...She is so beguiling 
That when she beckons
I can run a mile
In twenty seconds....Read more of this...



by Sandburg, Carl
...Cavalier” and “In the Gloaming, O My Darling.”

The orchard here is near and home-like.
The oats in the valley run a mile.
Between are the green and marching potato vines.
The lightning bugs go criss-cross carrying a zigzag of fire: the potato bugs are asleep under their stiff and yellow-striped wings: here romance stutters to the western stars, “Excuse … me…”. . .
Old foundations of rotten wood.
An old barn done-for and out of the wormholes t...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...than death, by force of Russian law
To work in the mines of mercury that loose the teeth in your jaw.)
They had not run a mile from shore -- they heard no shots behind --
When the skipper smote his hand on his thigh and threw her up in the wind:
"Bluffed -- raised out on a bluff," said he, "for if my name's Tom Hall,
You must set a thief to catch a thief -- and a thief has caught us all!
By every butt in Oregon and every spar in Maine,
The hand that spilled the wind from ...Read more of this...

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