Famous Spinning Top Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes

by William Butler Yeats
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On the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye
Has called up the cold spirits that are born
When the old moon is vanished from the sky
And the new still hides her horn.

Under blank eyes and fingers never still
The particular is pounded till it is man.
When had I my own will?
O not since life began.

Constrained, arraigned, baffled, bent and unbent
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The Army Mules

by Andrew Barton Paterson
 Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go 
With his roaring soaring aeroplane and his bombs for the blokes below, 
Over the railways and over the dumps, over the Hun and the Turk, 
You'll hear him mutter, "What ho, she bumps," when the Archies get to work. 
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