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Famous Stalling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...ne of them permanently busy.

At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.
Never trespassing in bad temper:
Stalling in midair, 
Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.
Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy

As Victorian cushions. This family
Of valentine faces might please a collector:
They ring true, like good china.

Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.
The light falls without letup, blindingly.

A woman is dragging her shadow...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ws, too much of palaces! 
And if he want me, let him come to me. 
But hire us some fair chamber for the night, 
And stalling for the horses, and return 
With victual for these men, and let us know.' 

'Yea, my kind lord,' said the glad youth, and went, 
Held his head high, and thought himself a knight, 
And up the rocky pathway disappeared, 
Leading the horse, and they were left alone. 

But when the Prince had brought his errant eyes 
Home from the rock, sideways...Read more of this...

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