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Famous Sizing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...water-meads they drew
These drops: which be they? stars or dew? 

Had she a quince in hand? Yet gaze:
Rather it is the sizing moon.
Lo, linkèd heavens with milky ways!
That was her larkspur row. -- So soon?
Sphered so fast, sweet soul? -- We see
Nor fruit, nor flowers, nor Dorothy....Read more of this...



by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...s and warms the life within; 
And bird and blossom swell 
In sod or sheath or shell.

All things rising, all things sizing 
Mary sees, sympathising 
With that world of good, 
Nature's motherhood.

Their magnifying of each its kind 
With delight calls to mind 
How she did in her stored 
Magnify the Lord.

Well but there was more than this: 
Spring's universal bliss 
Much, had much to say 
To offering Mary May.

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple 
Bloom lights t...Read more of this...

by Pinsky, Robert
...d
both her and me. We have culled its cost and quality
Down to the buttons of simulated bone,

The buttonholes, the sizing, the facing, the characters
Printed in black on neckband and tail. The shape,
The label, the labor, the color, the shade. The shirt....Read more of this...

by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...and warms the life within;
 And bird and blossom swell
 In sod or sheath or shell. 

All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathising
 With that world of good,
 Nature's motherhood. 

Their magnifying of each its kind
With delight calls to mind
 How she did in her stored
 Magnify the Lord. 

Well but there was more than this:
Spring's universal bliss
 Much, had much to say
 To offering Mary May. 

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple
Bloom lights th...Read more of this...

by Pessoa, Fernando
...h its acting youth to ignore.

The doubleness of mind fails us, to glance

At our exterior presence amid things,

Sizing from otherness our countenance

And seeing our puppet will's act-acting strings.

An unknown language speaks in us, which we

Are at the words of, fronted from reality....Read more of this...



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