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Famous Seniors Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...o sweet up violet banks the Southern balm 
Breathes round, we care not if the bell be late: 
Though here and there grey seniors question Time 
In irritable coughings. With slow foot 
The low rosed moon, the face of Music mute, 
Begins among her silent bars to climb. 
As in and out, in silvery dusk, we thread, 
I hear the laugh of Madam, and discern 
My Lady's heel before me at each turn. 
Our tragedy, is it alive or dead?...Read more of this...
by Meredith, George



...ded to Me.

 Potiphar Gubbins, C.E.,
 Is certain as certain can be
Of a highly paid post which is claimed by a host
 Of seniors -- including Me.

 Careless and lazy is he,
 Greatly inferior to Me.
That is the spell that you manage so well,
 Commonplace Potiphar G.?

 Lovely Mehitabel Lee,
 Let me inquire of thee,
Should I have riz to where Potiphar is,
 Hadst thou been mated to Me?...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...ed Blitzen wrote to make his mark.

Certainly he scored it, bold, and black, and firm,
In that Indian paper -- made his seniors squirm,
Quated office scandals, wrote the tactless truth --
Was there ever known a more misguided youth?

When the Rag he wrote for praised his plucky game,
Boanerges Blitzen felt that this was Fame;
When the men he wrote of shook their heads and swore,
Boanerges Blitzen only wrote the more:

Posed as Young Ithuriel, resolute and grim,
Till he found ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...ll?
Who practised this piano
Whose notes are now so still?

Ah, notices are taken down,
And scorebooks stowed away,
And seniors grow tomorrow
From the juniors today,
And even swimming groups can fade,
Games mistresses turn grey....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip
...rve unwieldy dimensions
And curious imperfections of odor.
Here is the formal male group:
The young men look upon their seniors,
They consider the elderly mind
And observe its inexplicable correlations.

Said Tsin-Tsu:
It is only in small dogs and the young
That we find minute observation...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra



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