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Famous Small World Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bright sparkle-revelations, secret majesties,
Shells, wrecks and wealths, are mine; yea, Orange-trees,
That lift your small world-systems in the light,
Rich sets of round green heavens studded bright
With globes of fruit that like still planets shine,
Mine is your green-gold universe; yea, mine,
White slender Lighthouse fainting to the eye
That wait'st on yon keen cape-point wistfully,
Like to some maiden spirit pausing pale,
New-wing'd, yet fain to sail
Above the serene Gu...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney



...is a moment's length 
To the life of the stream that will run for ever. 
And so it comes that they take no part 
In small world worries; each hardy rover 
Rides like a paladin, light of heart, 
With the plains around and the blue sky over. 
And up in the heavens the brown lark sings 
The songs the strange wild land has taught her; 
Full of thanksgiving her sweet song rings -- 
And I wish I were back by the Grey Gulf-water....Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
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Under the snow. 

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It is night time, and cold, and snow is falling, 
And no wind grieves the walls. 
In the small world of light around the arc-lamp 
A swarm of snowflakes falls and falls. 
The street grows silent. The last stranger passes. 
The sound of his feet, in the snow, is indistinct.

What forgotten sadness is it, on a night like this, 
Takes possession of my heart? 
Why do I think of a camellia tree in a southern garden, 
With pink blossom...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad
...lulling random squabbles when they rise, 
Chafferings and chatterings at the market-cross, 
Rejoice, small man, in this small world of mine, 
Yea, even in their hens and in their eggs-- 
O brother, saving this Sir Galahad, 
Came ye on none but phantoms in your quest, 
No man, no woman?' 

Then Sir Percivale: 
`All men, to one so bound by such a vow, 
And women were as phantoms. O, my brother, 
Why wilt thou shame me to confess to thee 
How far I faltered from my quest and...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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