Famous Sitters Poems by Famous Poets

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

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grandeur

by Rg Gregory
 loneliness is a state
the lonely cannot reach

it carries a grandeur
that doesn't fit into

bed-sitters or rejected
ideas - it's the label stuck

on the bottle after
the tables have gone...Read more of this...

Elsa Wertman

by Edgar Lee Masters
 I was a peasant girl from Germany,
Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.
And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's.
On a summer's day when she was away
He stole into the kitchen and took me
Right in his arms and kissed me on my throat,
I turning my head. Then neither of us
Seemed to know what happened.
And I cried for what would...Read more of this...

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