Famous Staging Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Staging poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous staging poems. These examples illustrate what a famous staging poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Kees, Weldon
...it,
Lay your plans carefully and keep one jump
Ahead of the crowd. To report a miracle
Is a pleasure unalloyed; but staging one requires
Tact, imagination, a special knack for the job
Not everyone possesses. A miracle, in fact, means work.
--And now there are those who have come saying
That miracles were not what we were after. But what else
Is there? What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, the teamwork, all th...Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...t the people on the streets call proud and beautiful,
After there is absolutely nothing more to be done for the sake of staging you as a great enigmatic bird of paradise and they must all declare you to be proud and beautiful,
After you have become the last word in good looks, insofar as good looks may be fixed and formulated, then, why then, there is nothing more to it then, it is then you listen and see how voices and eyes declare you to be proud and beautiful...Read more of this...
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McGonagall, William Topaz
...cheered without any doubt,
Under the impression that everything would go well;
But, alas! instantaneously a bridge and staging fell.
Oh! little did the Duchess of York think that day
That so many lives would be taken away
At the launching of the good ship Albion,
But when she heard of the catastrophe she felt woebegone.
But accidents will happen without any doubt,
And often the cause thereof is hard to find out;
And according to report, I've heard people say,
'Tw...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...k there
lost to its looking down
in me some old anger
shocks its ailing ghost
lets the festive transport
use me as its staging post
however the time is barren
and so much mutters no
i share my godless pleasure
with the minster clad in snow...Read more of this...
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