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Famous Sews Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...u could scarce believe
They shared the torments of the damned . . .
Yet there the Mother smiles and knits;
The Daughter sews white underwear;
The Father reads and smokes and spits,
While Sonny Boy plays solitaire....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William



...p the wooden tower, on up past that close platoon
of doors, past the dear old man who always asks us in
and the one who sews like a wasp and will not budge.

Climbing the dark halls, I ignore their papers and pails,
the twelve coats of rubbish of someone else's dim life.
Tell them need is an excuse for love. Tell them need prevails.
Tell them I remake and smooth your bed and am your wife....Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne
...and that way her soft hair blows, 
As there in the window from morn till night, 
She sits in her beauty, and sings and sews.

And I in my office chair, lounge and dream, 
In an idle way, of a sweet 'might be, '
While the maid at her window sews her seam, 
With never a glance or a thought for me.
Perhaps she is angry because I look 
So long and so often across the way, 
Over the top of my ledger-book; 
But those stolen glances brighten the day.

And I am blameless of any wron...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...le of rollers and screech. 

The swallow of summer, the seamstress of summer,
She scissors the blue into shapes and she sews it,
She draws a long thread and she knots it at the corners.
 But the holiday people
 Are laid out like wounded
 Flat as in ovens
 Roasting and basting
 With faces of torment as space burns them blue
 Their heads are transistors
 Their teeth grit on sand grains
 Their lost kids are squalling
 While man-eating flies
 Jab electric shock needles but what c...Read more of this...
by Hughes, Ted

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