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Famous Spender Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...aw a spark light up and

Whirl and twirl around my head and as it hissed

I drew in silver a lucky seven.





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Spender, Stephen, Sir,

Whichever name you

Now prefer, it is

Irrelevant, you’re

Dead and but a one

Or two poem man I

Fear. High and clear

I hear your voice

Caressing Rilke’s

Elegies, relating

Them to liberty,

Of which you had so

Little, shackled as you were

To your poetic chair.

In Leeds I listened

To your praise

Of famous men,

A famo...Read more of this...



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